 Contents - Front Page - Mailbag - Hotbods - Support DCRTV Round Twenty-Two: 5/4 to 5/9 WTOP's Adam Tuss VS WTOP's Mark Segraves MARK SEGRAVES -  From wtopnews.com:
Mark Segraves is the lead reporter for the WTOP Investigative Unit. In 2007, Segraves was awarded the Robert D.G. Lewis Watchdog Award by the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalist for his work in uncovering thousands of missing laptop computers in the federal government.
The missing laptops contained the personal information of hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens putting them at risk of identity theft. Segraves' reports led to congressional hearings and new legislation.
The Washington Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners named Segraves the Fraud Examiner of the Year in 2007 for his body of work uncovering waste, fraud and abuse in both local and federal government. Segraves comes from a family of journalists.
His father, the late John Segraves, was a columnist for the Washington Star for 17 years until his death. His mother was a general assignment reporter at The (Baltimore) Sun, where she met her husband. She recently retired as a staff editor for the Futurist magazine and spends her days listening for her son on the radio.
Segraves joined WTOP Radio after serving as an investigative producer at ABC 7 News. He has been a frequent guest analyst on WAMU's Kojo Nnamdi Show, NewsChannel 8's NewsTalk with Bruce DePuyt, and the Politics Program with that "other Mark" from WTOP. Prior to that, he spent the majority of his career in print journalism, working for various newspapers in the mid-Atlantic region.
Segraves' exclusives range from small community stories, such as corner markets selling crack pipes, a story that led to a city-wide clamp down on such sales, to a state-wide story that led to the closing of a private gun club in Maryland.
In the gun club story, Segraves uncovered that the gun club's discharged ammunition in a nearby creek was causing dangerously high lead levels. After reporting this story, the state of Maryland opened its own investigation, an environmental group filed a lawsuit under the Clean Water Act, and the club voluntarily closed the shooting range. Many of his stories have led to similar results.
A D.C. native, Segraves lives with his wife and their two sons on Capitol Hill. He is an accomplished long distance runner and avid camper and skier (no snowboards for him). He has the singular distinction of winning the "Spookiest House on Capitol Hill" contest three years in a row, netting thousands of dollars for his sons' schools.
When he's not sending out Freedom of Information Act requests he spends his time trying to convince his family to listen to the Grateful Dead or at least watch a black & white movie. One thing that he and his wife agree on is that the "only bowl fit for a 'Nole is the toilet bowl." GO TERPS!
Oh yeah, he doesn't like Duke much either. It's an ACC thing.ADAM TUSS -  From wtopnews.com: People ask me all the time what "Sprawl and Crawl" means, and I have a pretty simple answer. Everything that affects EVERYONE right now in the D.C. region.
It is an important beat. There's the sprawl: housing, development, land use, planning. Then there's the crawl: traffic, transportation, congestion, basically everything that irks you on your daily commute.
I'm here to try and sort it all out for you.
I went to college at Fordham University in New York City. I started out my broadcast career in the Big Apple, and have also been on the air in Wilmington, Del. and now here at WTOP in D.C.
When I need a break from the news, I'm teased by the sports teams from my hometown (Philadelphia) and cry as they continue to play with my hopes of a championship.Vote! First, the rules: (1) E-mail ballots will NOT be opened. Your vote MUST be indicated on the subject line of the message. (2) Do NOT send "hottie" votes to any other DCRTV address other than the dcrtv@hotmail com address specified below - they will be discarded. (3) Only one e-mail vote per sending address is allowed per competition. All multiple votes from a common e-mail address will not be counted. (4) If we suspect a batch of messages is part of an organized or automated campaign of "ballot stuffing," such as a large amount of e-mail votes from a like domain name (to the right of the @ symbol) at the same time or the use of fake e-mail sending/return addresses, those votes will not be counted..... Results will be updated on this page during the week, with the voting ending at the end of the day Friday, and the winner being announced on Saturday..... TALLY AS OF FRIDAY NOON: SEGRAVES - 51.2% TUSS - 48.8% Previous battles..... 
Round Twenty-One: Week of 4/5 - 4/11Former WJFK-FMer Don Geronimo (left) - 50.4% - WINNER! WJFK-FMer Mike O'Meara (right) - 49.6% 
Round Twenty: Week of 3/15 - 3/21WKYS's Russ Parr (left) - 55.7% - WINNER! WPGC-FM's Donnie Simpson (right) - 44.3% 
Round Nineteen: Week of 3/1 - 3/7Former WJZWer Al Santos (left) - 54.9% - WINNER! Former WMALer Chris Core (right) - 45.1% 
Round Eighteen: Week of 2/16 - 2/22Channel 9's Kim Martucci (left) - 53.1% - WINNER! Channel 5's Sue Palka (right) - 46.9% 
Round Seventeen: Week of 2/9 - 2/15Channel 13's Jessica Kartalija (left) - 55.4% - WINNER! Channel 11's Mindy Basara (right) - 44.6% 
Round Sixteen: Week of 1/27 - 2/2Koons' Krystal Koons (left) 54.1% - WINNER! DarCars' Tammy Darvish (right) - 45.9% 
Round Fifteen: Week of 1/19 - 1/26WHFS's Ed Norris (left) 57.1% - WINNER! WTGB/WWMX/XM's Albie Dee (right) 42.9% 
Round Fourteen: Week of 12/1 - 12/7Channel 4's Chuck Bell (right) 50.1% - WINNER! Channel 7's Adam Caskey (left) 49.9% 
Round Thirteen: Week of 11/24 - 11/30DC101's Whitney (left) 81.1% - WINNER! The Globe's Schelby (right) 18.9% 
Round Twelve: Week of 11/10 - 11/16Channel 5 & WPGC's Julie Wright (left) 53.1% - WINNER! Channel 7 & WTOP's Lisa Baden (right) 46.9% 
Round Eleven: Week of 10/27 - 11/2WMAL & WCBM's Sean Hannity (right) 57.1% - WINNER! WMAL & WCBM's Rush Limbaugh (left) 42.9% 
Round Ten: Week of 10/20 - 10/26Channel 13's Sally Thorner (left) 56.3% - WINNER! Channel 9's JC Hayward (right) 43.7% 
Round Nine: Week of 10/13 - 10/19WJFK-FM's Don Geronimo (left) 81.0% - WINNER! WRQX's Jack Diamond (right) 19.0% 
Round Eight: Week of 10/6 - 10/12WPGC-FM's Michel Wright (left) 83.5% - WINNER! WERQ's Neke Howse (right) 16.5% 
Round Seven: Week of 9/29 - 10/5Channel 5's Brian Bolter (right) 51.1% - WINNER! Channel 9's Derek McGinty (left) 48.9% 
Round Six: Week of 9/22 - 9/28Channel 4's Wendy Rieger (left) 58.0% - WINNER! Channel 5's Shawn Yancy (right) 42.0% 
Round Five: Week of 9/15 - 9/2198 Rock's Mickey Cucchiella (right) 57.9% - WINNER! DC101's Elliot Segal (left) 42.1% 
Round Four: Week of 9/9 - 9/14Mix 107.3's Cindy Maguire (right) 57.9% - WINNER! WASH's Maureen McLain (left) 42.1% 
Round Three: Week of 8/19 - 8/25Channel 13's Gigi Barnett (left) 52.3% - WINNER! Channel 11's Darrielle Snipes (right) 47.7% 
Round Two: Week of 8/12 - 8/18WJFK-FM's Mike O'Meara (right) 65.3% - WINNER! Washington Post Radio's Tony Kornheiser (left) 34.7% 
Round One: Week of 8/5 - 8/11Channel 7's Alison Starling (left) 50.6% - WINNER! Channel 5's Laura Evans (right) 49.4%  |
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