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So fun! The @NBCNightlyNews story included my obsession with non-working drinking fountains. I enjoyed being the "good news" segment at the end of a newscast filled with really depressing stories. nbcnews.com/nightly-news/v…
Jacob Fenston
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Jacob Fenston
@JacobFenston
Environment reporter in Washington DC. Climate change, trees, rivers. Occasionally: pandas. Every 17 years: cicadas. On a quest to visit all of DC’s 697 parks.
- Staff at the National Zoo have been busy setting up for the big announcement and restocking panda souvenirs!
- The DC public library really has some of the coolest buildings in the city.
- The logic here is amazing: with cars banned from Rock Creek Park during the pandemic, too many people used the park for recreation, harming the environment, @NatlParkService says. The solution is to bring back cars for 9 months a year.
- This park is peak DC brutalism: weird open spaces that are inaccessible and hot, strangled and cut off by freeways.
- One of the pandas coming to DC is the son of Bao Bao, who was born at the National Zoo in 2013. That means he’s the grand-cub of the panda pair that just left last November, Tian Tian and Mei Xiang.
- Anyone know where this DC park is? It’s number 185 in my quest with @CityCast_DC to visit all 697 parks in the city.
- I’m glad to see so many people mocking this story. As a frequent bus rider I’d love to be interviewed about how dangerous and annoying it is when the bus stop is blocked by a car, so the bus has to unload in the traffic lane. One entitled driver vs dozens of transit riders.
- I was one of the journalists laid of at @wamu885 today. I've had a great time covering local environmental issues in D.C. for the past 7ish years, plus 5 more years producing and reporting audio at the station.
- I found the corner with the best visibility in DC. I’m not sure if this is the work of an artist or an overzealous DDOT employee or both.
- DC’s Southwest Duck Pond! What a lovely little urban oasis.
- Spent my first unemployed afternoon volunteering to pull invasive vines in a DC park. Grateful to @wamu885 for laying me off in time to spend time outside in this beautiful late winter weather.
- Many of DC’s boundary stones from the 1790s are in people’s front yards. I just talked to Sra. García who lives in Mt. Rainier, Md. and takes care of this stone in her front yard. Her house is right on the DC border.
- My first time seeing this new little section of the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail at Buzzard Point! Nice!! It will eventually connect up with the rest of the trail around South Capitol St.
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