CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, host of the “Situation Room,” Washington Post personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary, and longtime CBS Radio White House correspondent Peter Maer are being inducted into the Washington Journalism Hall of Fame. On June 11, the Society of Professional Journalists will install the three to its hall at an awards dinner.
The hall has several journalism titans on its list including Joseph Alsop, Jack Anderson, Helen Thomas, and Brian Lamb of C-SPAN. …
- The most exclusive teen Washington group is publishing its first directory. The U.S. Capitol Page Association has hired a publishing outfit to produce the Inaugural All-Class Page Directory in print and digitally in early 2020. Pages to the House, Senate, and Supreme Court will be included. The House killed its program in 2011, but there are efforts to bring it back. “The Inaugural edition will include a section on the history of the page programs, as well as biographical, geographical and career sections,” said the association. …
- To celebrate his 135th birthday, a bipartisan group of House and Senate members are seeking to rename Washington’s train station Harry S. Truman Union Station. Truman was a celebrated train traveler whose presidential rail car, U.S. Car No. 1, was kept at Union Station. …
- The new home of the Department of Homeland Security and related agencies, once the Government Hospital for the Insane, also known as St. Elizabeths, has sent some contractors running. The reason: They report seeing ghosts of past patients and Civil War troops. …
