So extremely glad to hear Héctor Alejandro Arzate back on the radio 💜

Another Politics Hour, another episode dominated by Virginia news -- and for the first time by our friends at VPM!🥳🥳🥳

NEWS: a group of former WAMU/DCist staffers are launching a 'worker-led, community-based, local outlet.' They want help naming it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

New: In VA-10's Democratic primary, Eileen Filler-Corn secured DMFI PAC's endorsement on Feb. 8, and transferred them $110,000 a day later from her state PAC.

The two sides deny coordination. And while an FEC complaint accuses Filler-Corn of violating a provision of…

🧵 👇 (another one of Margaret’s great explainers)

Notable that this regional planning effort is beginning without Metro Board having had a chance to pass their budget ... given uncertainty on the Virginia side about where the commonwealth's share of stopgap money's going to come from

This thread is important to understand just some of the transportation funding issues in NOVA that are *linked* to Metro but actually go way beyond Metro because NVTC is a region-wide entity.

There’s domino effect risk for all nine NOVA localities in terms of available funding.