I’m off to France for a week, enjoying DC’s sister city of Paris and then barging down a canal in Burgundy. I will have no access to email and am not going to blog, read comments, or keep up with the news while I am eating cheese along the Seine or floating leisurely through the wine country.

But never fear, GGW will not go dark. I’ve scheduled a number of posts to go up during the next week. There will be more open threads and more posts asking for your input on topics of the week (since I don’t know ahead of time what they will be), so join in!

David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.