Streetcar Suburbs Publishing Inc. provides hyper-local news and information to communities along the Route 1 corridor near Washington, DC.

Our award-winning monthly newspapers, the Hyattsville Life & Times and the College Park Here & Now, have recently been joined by The Laurel Independent to provide saturation coverage of three of Maryland’s most diverse and dynamic suburbs.

This website, StreetcarSuburbs.News, and our free email newsletter, The Streetcar Spotlight, together provide continuous and timely coverage of these same communities.

Streetcar Suburbs Publishing Inc. is a 501c(3) nonprofit corporation. Our newspapers are also members of the National Newspaper Association and the Institute for Nonprofit News.

Our Policies

The Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics and the News values and principals of the Associated Press help guide our work.

We seek a range of viewpoints on issues and are committed to upholding the highest standards of journalistic integrity in our coverage, including the following:

  • We clearly label opinion and advertising, and keep them separate from news stories.
  • We do not publish press releases.
  • We identify our sources or provide a valid reason why a source cannot be named.
  • We neither pay for interviews nor accept payment for interviews.
  • We do not provide interview questions in advance.
  • As a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization, we never endorse candidates running for office.
  • We fact-check articles before publication and promptly correct mistakes.

View our full policies here on editorial independence, equity and inclusion, transparency, privacy, advertising acceptability, and conflict of interest. View our 2024 annual report here, our 2024 strategic plan here, and our media kit here.

Our Personnel

We operate our newspapers thanks to our core staff members, our board members, and our volunteers.  You can find any open employment and contract opportunities with our organization on at streetcarsuburbs.news/current-openings/.

Kit Slack

Kit rejoined Streetcar Suburbs in September 2023 as the organization’s first Executive Director. She has been writing for the Hyattsville Life & Times since 2013, mostly on education and environment beats. She worked as managing editor in Hyattsville for two years, starting the summer of 2020.

In prior careers, Kit has worked as an analyst for a sustainable investments nonprofit, an employee benefits attorney on merger and acquisition deals, and a union organizer for low-wage workers in the building service and industrial laundry industries.

She is a graduate of the Law School at the University of Chicago, and has a degree in English from Barnard College.

Se habla español.

Hyattsville Life & Times

Nigel Maynard

Nigel F. Maynard is an award-winning editor and journalist. His work has appeared in countless publications, including Architectural Record, This Old House, The Washington Post, USA Today Magazines, Arlington Magazine and Bethesda Magazine.

Born in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Maynard’s hobbies include traveling, cooking, and renovating old homes. He has bought and remodeled five homes, and has taken up cabinet and furniture making. His current home was featured in The Washington Post and his previous home was covered in Home Magazine, The Washington Post and HGTV.

Heather Wright

Heather Wright has been with the Hyattsville Life & Times since 2016 and loves learning and writing about the city. She previously honed her interviewing and writing skills as a school psychologist, most recently with Anne Arundel County public schools. Heather lives in Takoma Park with her husband, two children, yellow Lab and sun conure.

Reporters

  • Chris McManes
  • Paul Ruffins
  • Mark Betancourt
  • Heather Marléne Myers

Columnists

  • Victoria Boucher
  • Stuart Eisenberg
  • Juliette Fradin
  • Julia Gaspar-Bates
  • Rick Borchelt
  • Imke Ahlf-Wien
  • Jessica Arends

College Park Here & Now

Sharon O’Malley

Sharon O’Malley is an assistant professor of journalism at Anne Arundel Community College.  She is faculty adviser for Anne Arundel Community College’s student newspaper, Campus Current. Sharon is an experienced reporter, editor and photographer, published in dozens of magazines, newspapers and digital news sites.

Jalen Wade

Jalen is a freelance journalist who lives in his hometown of Bowie, Maryland. He graduated from the University of Maryland as a multi-platform journalism major before going to study at Syracuse for his journalism masters. Jalen works for Streetcar Suburbs part-time, and is open to additional work. His hobbies include model kit building and watching movies.

Reporters

  • Julia Kyles
  • D.W. Rowland

Columnists

  • Maxine Gross
  • Matt Menke
  • Paul Ruffins

The Laurel Independent

Nancy Welch

Nancy Welch served as associate editor for the College Park Here & Now for the first four years of its publication, from 2020 to 2024. She has been associate editor for The Laurel Independent since its founding in 2022. Nancy has written and edited for the Sierra Club and the Endangered Species Coalition, and has collaborated on writing projects with numerous other NGOs.  She has a background in museum education and arts management, and served as education specialist at the National Air and Space Museum and as program manager for the Smithsonian’s Office of Museum Programs.

Reporters

  • Melanie Dzwonchyk
  • Angie Latham Kozlowski
  • Joe Murchison
  • Jessie Newburn

Columnists

  • Agnes Pasco Conaty
  • Jimmy Rogers
  • Rick Borchelt

Newsletter Editor

Business Manager

Marketing Director & Senior Page Designer

  • Ashley Perks

Page Designer

  • Valerie Morris

Board of Directors

  • Marta McLellan Ross – President
  • Melanie Dzwonchyk – Secretary
  • Joe Murchison – Treasurer
  • Michael Walls – General Counsel
  • Nora Eidelman
  • Merrill Hartson
  • Alec Lynne
  • Carter Ross
  • Stephanie Stullich
  • Tara Susman-Peña

Ex Officio: Katie V. Jones, Nigel F. Maynard, Sharon O’Malley, Kit Slack