And I thought children hated me. Debbie Reinhardt’s second-grade class at the Kiel School in Kinnelon, N.J. sent me Flat Stanley, the title character of a children’s book from 1964. The flattened boy from the book gets sent around the world in an envelope. I’ve been charged with showing our pal Stanley around Philadelphia, but [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — I’ve heard fears about the available public toilets at the grounds of the inauguration of Barack Obama. Oh, portable toilets, our most unloved friend. I’m off to the National Mall now, far behind millions who may have gotten there when security opened this morning at four a.m. What’s going to happen when [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial is in left field of a well-worn baseball field, wedged between the icy Potamac River and the city’s Tidal Basin. Tonight, so is a strange encampment of brown tents, bright lights and vehicles with federal government license plates. Number of Views:208

Tomorrow I’ll be in D.C. to cover the presidential inauguration of Barack Obama on Tuesday. It seems it’s all anyone is talking about in a way no inaguration in my short life – even the first inauguration of Bill Clinton, another young Washington outsider popular with young people. Folks in D.C. are already complaining of [...]