Washington was shaken this week by the sudden and tragic death of the political commentator and veteran media adviser Alice Stewart. Stewart, only 58, had appeared on CNN’s The Situation Room as recently as last Friday. Her body was found the following day in the Belle View neighborhood in northern Virginia. Authorities do not yet know the cause of her death, but they have ruled out foul play.
Stewart was born on March 11, 1966, in Atlanta. An avid football fan and an especially devoted supporter of her Georgia Bulldogs, after graduating from the University of Georgia and working as a local TV reporter in Savannah, Stewart moved to Arkansas, where she worked as a reporter, anchor, and, later, a producer for Little Rock’s NBC affiliate, KARK-4. In the early 2000s, Stewart, while never completely leaving
