After nearly 8 years of saddling MoCo residents with increased taxes and higher costs of living, a pending announcement to run for County Executive has Andrew Friedson pivoting to “care about the financial burden of living in Montgomery County.” Marc Elrich released his proposed budget this year, once again asking taxpayers to agree to have…
On March 5, Evan Glass sent a letter, using his official designation, to the Executive Director of the Montgomery County Employee Retirement Plan. In the letter he says that Elon Musk has created the potential for widespread economic disruption in Montgomery County. Which on the surface is interesting in that what has actually caused the…
“As a culture, we have lost the ability to engage in fruitful, edifying discussions with people from opposing viewpoints. The moment the conversation shifts to a hot topic, respect flies out the window and that person becomes the enemy.” This is from an editorial assignment for my eleventh-grade AP Language class. I was speaking specifically…
An MCPS teacher has written a book, titled Hang, The Girl. The Amazon description of the book states: In Hank, the Girl, Hank discovers she is a girl after believing she was a boy. At first, Hank worries what her classmates will think, but she soon realizes their love and friendship are unconditional. As her classmates…
A FOIA of MCPS emails related to the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attack in Israel obtained by Parents Defending Education revealed that on October 16, 2023 Arwa Abde, Middle Eastern Liaison at the County Office of Community Partnerships, sent out an e mail inviting members of the Middle Eastern American Advisory Group to a…
A new petition has been created on Change.org to gather community support for an Amendment to the MoC0 Gas Leaf Blower Ban. In addition to reports from private businesses expressing the need to reduce the size of their workforce to accommodate the cost of this ban, there are also growing reports from HOAs and neighborhood…
On February 6th, the NCAA announced that the Board of Governors updated its policy for transgender student-athletes. The changes were in response to an executive order by the Trump administration. The new policy limits competition in women’s sports to student athletes assigned female at birth only. The President of NCAA stated: The NCAA is an…
Always on the hunt for potential mechanisms that might undermine their authority or persuade votes to question their service, MoCo Delegate Anne Kaiser has sponsored legislation in the General Assembly to: Prohibiting a person from using fraud to influence or attempt to influence a voter’s voting decision; providing that fraud includes the use of synthetic…
Delegates Vogel and Charkoudian’s giveaway to their friends on the Board of Education includes a scholarship to the student member of the board (SMOB). SMOBs already receive a $25,000 scholarship, and Vogel-Charkoudian want to increase that to the lesser of a) the highest tuition + room + board within UMD and b) 80% of a…