Jane Coaston

I do not just want to hear an anti-everything else politic, because that just seems like the politic of last resort.

I want to go towards something, not just flee something.

My favorite thing about the Washington Post sports section was how closely it covered high school sports in the DMV.

There are so many people like my friend and editor at The New York Times, Catherine Miller.

She went to high school in the DMV.

And, you know, when she was I can't remember what sport it was.

I think it may have been softball, but like basketball.

She was featured in the Washington Post.

They did such great coverage.

They had multiple people covering high school sports.

And if you live in New Orleans, you're aware that in many places, especially in the South, which D.C., weirdly enough, kind of counts...

And in the Midwest, high school sports is so important to people.

It's so important to community.

It's so important to how people think about themselves.

And so the Washington Post sending reporters to go to like a Gonzaga football game or talking about how, you know, this player was like Gatorade National Player of the Year.

Like that would mean so much to you if as a high schooler.

And that's also somewhere where like Kevin Durant.

is from the DMV.

And that's somewhere where like you could start to track the careers of people who would go on to like change sports.

And so I think it's little things like that.