- Michael E. Ruane
- Reporter
Michael E. Ruane is a general assignment reporter on the Local staff of The Washington Post. He also covers developments on the National Mall, such as the building of the new memorial to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and historical topics, such as the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. He was part of the local team that earned the Post’s 2008 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 1991-92. Formerly with the Philadelphia Inquirer, he has been at the Post since 1997.
D.C. flood-levee project stalls; main contractor is fired
The D.C. 17th Street levee project, which is behind schedule, has stalled, and the contractor has been fired.
Scaffolding’s up, ‘real’ work begins
Washington Monument, damaged in region’s 2011 earthquake, has been closed for almost two years, but the most important repairs haven’t yet begun.
Cathedral, Mount Vernon, Woodson House net preservation grants
The National Trust awarded at total of $1 million for repairs to the local winners of an online contest.
Library of Congress to put Whitman’s haversack on display for the first time
Whitman brought gifts to wounded and dying soldiers in Washington hospitals during the Civil War.
- National Zoo to get new Asian elephant
- Four shot down during Vietnam War are buried at Arlington
- National Park Service plans to repair Carter G. Woodson house
- For Stonewall Jackson, a final victory that led to Confederate catastrophe
- Around Washington, security presence bolstered after Boston attacks
- After 81 years, landmark Memorial Bridge is in dire need of renovation
- A soldier’s long-lost Civil War ring is returned to his family in Pennsylvania
- Funeral flyovers squeezed by sequester, but fighter ace ‘Boots’ Blesse gets a final salute
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