Greg Visscher
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MoCo’s Incoherent Attempt at Being a Nanny-State, Vice-Supporting Suburban Community
Read more: MoCo’s Incoherent Attempt at Being a Nanny-State, Vice-Supporting Suburban CommunityDid you hear? Recreational marijuana is now available in Maryland! To those “adults” 21-and-over, of course (no chance the legal stuff will find its way to anyone younger in MD, wink wink). And specifically, the skunk, the green, the ganja, the “fire” is now legal and ‘recreational’ in Montgomery County, MD. Yes, nanny-state, neurotic, top-down…
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Flashback: Will Jawando’s Dubious Claim About His Student Activism and Why He Started an NAACP Chapter at Catholic University
Read more: Flashback: Will Jawando’s Dubious Claim About His Student Activism and Why He Started an NAACP Chapter at Catholic UniversityMontgomery County Councilmember and current U.S. Senate candidate Will Jawando has made dubious, thoroughly misleading claims about his ancestral history in the past, whether through speeches at official county government African-American history events or via his office’s official e-mails to constituents. We’ve documented several of these instances at CleanSlateMoCo.com, using the Councilmember’s own words and…
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WSSC Office of Inspector General Reporting on In-House Procurement Office Performance Reveals Much to “Be Improved”
Read more: WSSC Office of Inspector General Reporting on In-House Procurement Office Performance Reveals Much to “Be Improved”As we previously posted, the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) pretty much always gets what it wants from Montgomery County Council politicians, particularly when it asks for approval on water/sewer rate hikes for the upcoming fiscal year. These rate hikes hit your wallet and mine and increase the cost of living for each and every resident…
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Selective List Promotion Part 2: How Does the “Silver Spring – Rockville – Frederick” Metro Area Stack Up ?
Read more: Selective List Promotion Part 2: How Does the “Silver Spring – Rockville – Frederick” Metro Area Stack Up ?“We’re ranked 100th!” Last month we showed how local Montgomery County politicians love to selectively crow about and promote “best list rankings” from select news sources when these news “orgs” pump up a certain city or area in MoCo. Back then, it was the unincorporated area of Silver Spring, which Fortune Magazine claimed was #3…
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Economic Storm Clouds Are Gathering, But the Montgomery County Council Seems Pre-Occupied with Other (National) Topics
Read more: Economic Storm Clouds Are Gathering, But the Montgomery County Council Seems Pre-Occupied with Other (National) TopicsEconomic storm clouds are gathering for the nation’s economy, and Montgomery County will not be immune to an economic recession. The combination of high debt burdens (consumer, corporate, and government), still too-high inflation, high energy costs and higher interest rates are slowing economic growth to a trickle, and potentially feeding a cycle of yet more…
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Despite Rain, Smears and Intolerant Rhetoric by Local Elected Officials, Hundreds Still Showed Up to Ask for Simple “Opt Out” Option at MCPS
Read more: Despite Rain, Smears and Intolerant Rhetoric by Local Elected Officials, Hundreds Still Showed Up to Ask for Simple “Opt Out” Option at MCPSPhoto Credit: Reardon Sullivan It isn’t going away. The grassroots energy. The passion for basic civil liberties and religious freedom, for pluralism. The grassroots movement for basic parental notification and yes, an “opt out” option on select MCPS curriculum. None of this organizing is going away, like the local MoCo politicians or the Montgomery Board…
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Marc Elrich’s Incoherent Take on School Safety Policy & SROs
Read more: Marc Elrich’s Incoherent Take on School Safety Policy & SROsRemember 2014? A throwback to a time, just nine years ago, when Montgomery County seemed “governed” by responsive adults. MoCo was still highly taxed, its small businesses burdened and frequently regulated with local ordinances that started in California, not in MD. It was still stagnating, economically, and it couldn’t hold a match to Northern VA’s…
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Was It Truly a “Great School Year” Worth Celebrating for MCPS?
Read more: Was It Truly a “Great School Year” Worth Celebrating for MCPS?Last week, MCPS sent an email to parents wishing them well for the summer and “Celebrating the End of a Great School Year!” See screen capture below. This email came the last day of school for students, which was June 16th, 2023. But, was it truly a “great school year”? Even by MCPS’s historical standards? …
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MoCo Retiree Healthcare Plan (“Post Employment Benefits”) is Badly Under-Funded
Read more: MoCo Retiree Healthcare Plan (“Post Employment Benefits”) is Badly Under-FundedMontgomery County’s Consolidated Retiree Health Benefits Trust (the fund used to pay out retiree healthcare expenses for former MCPS and Montgomery College employees, among other county retirees) is under-water and has less then 50% of the assets needed to satisfy projected liabilities/claims in the years ahead, per official reporting issued by Montgomery County government and…
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Selective “Ranking” Promotion by County Politicians – Why Not Show the Whole Truth of How MoCo and MD “Stack Up”?
Read more: Selective “Ranking” Promotion by County Politicians – Why Not Show the Whole Truth of How MoCo and MD “Stack Up”?“Selective Outrage” was a term made popular by the recent Chris Rock comedy special on Netflix, wherein he details “the Oscar’s slap” and aftermath for himself and Will Smith. His broader point from the comedy special is on-point too, as he showcases time and again the “selective outrage” (hypocrisy and faux-sanctimonious behavior) of select people,…