Good morning Alexandria! @oconnell.bsky.social and I heard everyone is looking for bad takes this morning so here's a whole newsletter full of them!

P.S. Ghost link previews don't seem to be working but the link itself seems to work ok?

April 10, 2026 - 12:12 UTC

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Yup.
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Are you guys crazy? After a week of bike-lane discourse you introduce this idea? Personally, I love it and think we should do it. But gluttons for punishment over here.
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Got it. Slow to open on web here though. I’m told our issue over the last few days with our site is all Xfinity and nothing to do with Ghost. 🤷 Ghost has been helpful and patient with me this week.
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Could email subscribers let me know if you got this issue in your inbox this morning? Our open rate is much lower than usual - between that and the broken link preview, I'm wondering if there's a technical issue with Ghost

(Also re: @alexandriabrief.com's issues yesterday)
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Got mine
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Have newsletter, possible problem of use of whippersnapper contained within.
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Got it.
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I did
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Received!
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Got mine! Haven't read it yet, but I did just click it to help your precious open rate. YOU'RE WELCOME.
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Also got it 🫡
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Got it
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I got mine but just made it to reading it
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Mine was fine.
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I got it! But I’m the guy who always actually reads it a week late
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I did
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Got mine
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Received!
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Got mine but full disclosure I usually just click on the link you post here…
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Wait am I the only one who thinks the pollen is yellow?
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It’s…not?
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Bravo. If this comes to pass, there really needs to be a pair of toll booths at the end of an exit ramp off 495 named in your honor.

But it's not just Maryland drivers. Put tolls at the borders of Arlington, Falls Church, and Alexandria to keep out the Fairfaxians and Loudounites too.
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We apparently looked at a toll road route 1 before, once!
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Oh this is wild, they were gonna build a whole new toll road for commuter traffic
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Now I need to know if Elena has a whole folder of randomly collected old Alexandria civic debate newspaper screenshots or if she’s just good at finding them as needed.
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Looking forward to the now-inevitable next pop up bar “tipple on the ave”
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I still maintain the cost of me walking around singing A Whole New World all night and all day today was not worth the headline.
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The two of you have good takes sometimes!?
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We’ll let you know the minute it happens Eddy.
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So actually there are other relevant actions - as a City exploring what it would take to get Va to support (or at least not oppose) a potential DC charge. To begin, a DC only charge would still reduce cut through traffic here.
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Plus, it would make sense to give Va (and also Md, sorry) a share of the revenue. To fund transit, etc.
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