Editor’s note: Business Journal Publisher Alex Orfinger is writing a series of columns exploring the impact of the Trump administration’s…
Editor’s note: Business Journal Publisher Alex Orfinger is writing a series of columns exploring the impact of the Trump administration’s efforts to cut federal spending, employees, agencies and real estate in Greater Washington. Read his first, second, third and fourth columns.
Maybe I have this all wrong.
Not long ago, I wrote with some alarm about the future of Greater Washington. It wasn’t hyperbole when I asked whether D.C. without the federal government would become Detroit without the car industry.
Perhaps my pessimism was premature and misplaced.
Two things recently caused me to rethink my perspective.
First, my friend Liz lost her government contracting job a few months back and I thought she would be symptomatic of a wave of people like her exiting the region. Maybe not so fast: She found a local job and she and her family plan to stay in the region.
Second and less anecdotally, Fairfax EDA chief Victor Hoskins — chief regional cheerleader and a member of our…
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