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Voting Rights Violations in Montgomery County
Read more: Voting Rights Violations in Montgomery CountyMontgomery County comes across as a progressive jurisdiction that promotes equality of opportunity and access to all its residents. To some extent that is true: all of our elected leaders and their constituents place racial and gender equality as a primary objective, and for that we should be very proud. However, when it comes to…
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DHHS admits to being clueless on COVID-19 Dashboard Data
Read more: DHHS admits to being clueless on COVID-19 Dashboard DataNote: The following post contains information related to a MPIA that was sent to CleanSlateMoCo. We have redacted the names of all parties involved. On July 27th 2o22, County Executive Marc Elrich took to twitter to announce that Montgomery County had returned to a “high” COVID-19 Community Level. There was hidden glee in his announcement…
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“I own 2 rental properties and am prioritizing affordable housing”
Read more: “I own 2 rental properties and am prioritizing affordable housing”As reported by Bethesda Beat, newly confirmed County Council President Evan Glass laid out his top priorities for the next legislative session. Among these was the issue of “affordable housing”. Long serving as a talking point in the recent election cycle, affordable housing has been discussed at length by the current County Council and County…
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BOE Assigns a 100k Tax Lien Debtor to Fiscal Management Committee
Read more: BOE Assigns a 100k Tax Lien Debtor to Fiscal Management CommitteeUpdate 12/11/2022 – Reader tip provided info to include Rebecca Smondrowski’s federal lien in article. During the 2022 Board of Education campaign, parents and concerned community members took to twitter to share the financial issues they uncovered of school board candidate (now member) Grace Rivera-Oven. These revelations were of course ignored by the main local…
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Segregation Returns to MCPS
Read more: Segregation Returns to MCPSFrom 1872 to 1958, Montgomery County had a segregated school system. Segregation based only on one’s race. Unfortunately, and sadly ironically, under the guise of diversity and inclusion efforts, it has returned in 2022. The image below is simply shocking. Did you ever expect to see in the hallways of an MCPS school a sign directing…
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Kristin Mink Struggling to Become a Public Servant
Read more: Kristin Mink Struggling to Become a Public ServantAfter a swearing in, glamorous after party, and multiple photo shots, it appears reality has not yet set in for Kristin Mink. Elected on a wave of enthusiasm around her activism, starting with her rise to fame for interrupting the dinner of a federal official with a cell phone in her hand, Kristin has clearly…
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Marc Elrich self-diagnosis with Long-Covid
Read more: Marc Elrich self-diagnosis with Long-CovidOn November 21st, County Executive Marc Elrich held his FY24 Budget Meeting, allowing questions to be posed in a hybrid format. During the meeting, one question was related to Long-Covid. In his response, Marc announced that he has symptoms of long-COVID. Marc tested positive for COVID on New Years Day 2022, saying “I have mild…
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Benchmark LGQBT Curriculum
Read more: Benchmark LGQBT CurriculumOne of the additions to MCPS’s Benchmark Curriculum for 2022-23 was the inclusion of several books to further LGQBT. And though MCPS offers curriculum nights where you can drive to a central location and view the full curriculum, many parents do not have the luxury of doing this. MCPS has not provided any other mechanism…
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Bias evident in MCPS Media Review
Read more: Bias evident in MCPS Media ReviewAll books used in Montgomery County Schools, whether they are placed in the library as free reading material or as used as part of the curriculum, must undergo an evaluation and assessment. MCPS utilizes Regulation IIB-RA to outline how this process takes place. In short, this is how the process takes place: A teacher, media…