The Examiner announced today that it is axing its local section, and might forgo daily publishing altogether.

If you caught a glimpse of the Examiner, you’d probably walk away thinking that Pope Benedict hated D.C. traffic.

The Examiner produces reliable local journalism, but it also produces front pages that oddly juxtapose headlines against unrelated images. The results are often ironically hilarious.

The Examiner’s got a whopper of a front page today. If you don’t stop and read it, you might be excused for thinking that Capital Bikeshare is the reason U.S. embassies abroad are being violently attacked.

In an Examiner column yesterday, writer Harry Jaffe made quite the claim about Mayor Vince Gray’s intentions for “One City“.

There’s little doubt that the District government is large and occupies plenty of space. But what to do with that space isn’t as simple as one columnist would have you believe.

Violent flash mobs! What to do about them?

Last December, I took some umbrage to a story in the New York Times about the Washington Examiner’s crime-fighting ability.

In the District, it’s the owner of the football-team-that-shall-not-be-named that’s suing a local publication. But for the District’s northern-most urban neighbor, though, it’s an elected official that went after a journalist.

Those who unwillingly receive complimentary home delivery of The Examiner have tried lots of different ways to stop the free daily from landing on their doorstep every morning: calling the newspaper, reaching out to the Mayor’s Office of Community Relations and Services, threatening to boycott the paper’s advertisers, and, of course, the popular minimalist approach of simply putting a laminated “NO EXAMINER” sign on the front gate. (Of course, moving to a different neighborhood would have done the trick, too — though that’s pretty drastic.) Then again, maybe all they needed to do was dig through the paper’s website.