Eric Falquero

Editor-in-Chief

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202-347-2006 x 13

Eric first joined the staff as managing editor in August 2011. He also serves on the board of the D.C. Society of Professional Journalists. Eric previously founded and published a street paper in Huntington, West Virginia with inspiration from a summer internship at Street Sense. He graduated from Marshall University with honors, where he also worked on the university’s daily, The Parthenon.

Articles by

• D.C. officials, businesses, and service providers rally around residents affected by the government shutdown

• DC bathroom bill passes final vote

• Homeless Persons Memorial Day 2018

• Vendor Memorial: Charles Davis

• An event to celebrate new art where homeless people used to live was scheduled for the morning of an encampment cleanup

• This court-appointed receiver filed eviction suits in bulk against tenants of two properties it intends to sell

• Long sought-after downtown day center to open for homeless community

• Frederick Douglass: Editor, publisher, local Washingtonian

• Man stabbed 15 times in CCNV shelter lobby

• Vendor Memorial: Leonard Hyater Jr.

• Fatal batch of synthetic drugs sickens community

• Suspect sought in Judiciary Square shooting

• Man found dead on F Street NW

• Murder near 2nd & D

• Obituary: Matthew Joseph Farkas

• The 2018 D.C. Homeless Crisis Reporting Project "news blitz"

• 2018 Primary Voters Guide: 5 Questions on Homelessness

• Government closes camp across the street from homeless services nonprofit

• One percent of the D.C. budget is more than enough to end chronic homelessness, marchers say

• Drop-in center quietly re-opens in Georgetown

• From one filmmaker to another: Franklin Garcia breaks down DC Statehood, TV production and community support

• The day the GOP tax bills were reconciled by Congress, in photos

• Vendor Memorial: The mysterious, masonic "Mick" Matthews

• National Homeless Persons' Memorial Day 2017

• The Brazilian housing crisis in a single image, on display at Dupont Underground

• "Where else can we go?" ask residents of an embattled D.C. homeless encampment

• Everyone needs a "gravity assist" to get through life, says NASA's Dr. Jim Green

• The agony and the ecstasy of Wendell Williams

• Planning for Winter 2017-18

• New Laws to Govern Homeless Community

• Missing You, Michael Stoops

• City Homeless Services Find MLK Library Hard to Replace

• The March: Outside Looking In

• LIVE: Homeless Persons' Memorial Day 2016

• NMAAHC: A Good Starting Point

• Behind the Music: Prophets of Rage puts economic disparity center stage

• Voter's Guide: 2016 D.C. Primary Elections

• Summer Outlook: MPD Turning the Tide on Synthetic Drugs?

• The Mother of the Street Paper Movement: Wendy Oxenhorn’s Beautiful Dance with Social Work

• CCNV Residents Say They Need Case Management and Accountability More than Anything

• Sidewalk Ministry Seized as Evidence

• LIVE: National Homeless Persons' Memorial Day 2015

• No Right to Avoid Shelter: Tent City Dwellers Highlight Poor Shelter Alternatives

• Documentary to be Screened in DC Claims Controversial Camps Signal Rise in Homelessness

• Metropolitan Police Take No Chances With Farragut Homeless Man

• #CampWatergate Controversy Continues

• City Prepares to Disband Virginia Avenue Camp of Homeless People

• Seeking Shelter in D.C. During Hurricane Joaquin

• Vendor Profile:
  Ken Martin

• HUD Awards Billions for Homeless Services

• Coalition Calls for a More "Human" Budget

• Vendor Profile:
  The Morrow

• Arlington Winter Emergency Shelter Extends Operations

• D.C. Advocates Plunge into National Public Toilet Movement

• Rest in Peace, Pieus Ennels

• The Longest Night of the Year

• Housing Facility Raises Bar for City Homeless Services

• Champion Boxers Driven by Past to Fight for District's Future

• Everyone In D.C. has a Marion Barry Story

• In Spite of Court Setback, Ivy City Residents Fight On

• Ivy City Preliminary Injunction Comes Under Fire in Status Hearing

• Pickin' for Sasha Bruce Youthwork

• Ivy City Air Quality Worries Residents

• Appeals Court Considers Ivy City Plan

• The Fight for Ivy City

• Urban Garden Offers Inspiration and Sustenance

• Vendor Profile:
  Timothy Donelson

• Community Rallies to Get Homeless to Safety

• Counting the Survivors

• Unfinished Business