- 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.
Barry’s Magic Shop to vanish
The Montgomery County store will perform its final disappearing act after 38 years, accompanied by a liquidation sale.
Fighting for his piece of history
Jan Scruggs is keeping up a 12-year battle for an education center by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Cheetahs born in race against time
In a dramatic, two-day thriller, an emergency C-section and hours of CPR saved two vulnerable cubs.
Military medical museum reopening
Bones, bullets, body parts and other war relics are on display at the 150-year-old National Museum of Health and Medicine, which reopens Monday at its new location in Silver Spring.
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- 1892 snapshot of a vanished Washington
- Library of Congress uses maps to show growth of a capital idea
- Matchmaker waits in the wings as zoo resumes the panda mating game
- D.C. emancipation tallied the price of freedom
- The Washingtonians aboard the Titanic
- Lee’s surrender sword, and echoes of the Lost Cause, at new Appomattox museum
- District’s emancipation proclamation turns 150
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