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The tricky back-and-forth over pickleball and tennis
Programming Notes from The Machine’s October story
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Ryan Bacic
Breaks in the tennis-pickleball war
The dueling sports both keep growing. Can experiments underway in Fairfax help them coexist?
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Programming Notes: Train-track trespassing
Inside my reporting on Lake Accotink (and how I got caught at Audi Field)
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Up on deadly tracks
The train collision that killed three people at Lake Accotink happened just beyond a long-busted fence. Two days later, The Machine went through it.
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Post Production: The strange fuel of Reston
Bonus notes on the town’s secret first residents, its racial integration and where Big Oil flopped
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How Big Oil saved Reston’s radical vision
The master-planned town is celebrating its 60th anniversary. It owes an unlikely ally.
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Post Production: The frights of the Concord
Notes, reflections and tough cuts from last week’s game-shop story
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Facing doom, and playing on
The Dragons Concord in Fairfax Centre is one of the only game shops of its kind. It’s also in deep trouble.
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In a packed VA-10 race for Congress, opportunity knocks
Jennifer Boysko didn't have the most money ahead of Tuesday's Democratic primary, but she had a plan: Hit every door she could.
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