Environment
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MoCo Chief Exec Sweats Out the Heatwave, Demands All A/Cs Be Turned Off “In Solidarity” with Him, Mother Gaia
Read more: MoCo Chief Exec Sweats Out the Heatwave, Demands All A/Cs Be Turned Off “In Solidarity” with Him, Mother GaiaCE Marc Elrich (Democrat, 30+ years in office) has been without air conditioning at his Takoma Park home for about a month from June-July (per a radio report by WMAL Newstalk local), as he waits for an A/C unit part to be delivered. Yesterday, the sweaty and fed up Montgomery Chief Executive issued a strongly…
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Fake News Alert: CM Evan Glass’s “Glass Gazette” Promotes Untruths About EVs, MoCo’s Role in “Fighting Climate Change”
Read more: Fake News Alert: CM Evan Glass’s “Glass Gazette” Promotes Untruths About EVs, MoCo’s Role in “Fighting Climate Change”Councilmember Evan Glass is out with his “Earth Day Edition” of the “Glass Gazette” — his e-newsletter to MoCo residents (those who subscribe). In it, the Councilmember, re-elected “At Large” for MoCo in 2022 (and who kept his “At-Large” designation by adding a spoiler ballot question in 2020 to defend against a sensible ballot initiative…
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Captain Obvious: CE Marc Elrich Says “Montgomery County Alone Will Not Be Able to Roll Back Climate Change”
Read more: Captain Obvious: CE Marc Elrich Says “Montgomery County Alone Will Not Be Able to Roll Back Climate Change”Fresh from international travel to Taiwan that will yield “valuable results” (but no actual details or contract with a relocating company), County Executive Marc Elrich is back this spring with a “message” from his office. I was struck by this particular quote in his long diatribe against oil / energy companies and the prosperity they’ve…
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Another Quick Reminder: MoCo’s EV Promotion Isn’t Saving the Environment — In Fact It Is Damaging the Local Ecosystem
Read more: Another Quick Reminder: MoCo’s EV Promotion Isn’t Saving the Environment — In Fact It Is Damaging the Local EcosystemA quick follow-up to our May, 2023 post entitled “More Tire Toxicity in MoCo?” , because another report in the Miami Herald by Ashley Miznazi confirms what we published just a few months ago: Ah, yes, “getting away from gasoline” — just like MoCo’s Executive, the “green fiend” himself, Marc Elrich, wants you to do! Be…
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Deer Tick Politick
Read more: Deer Tick PolitickI am a lifelong Montgomery County citizen. When I was a kid in the 1950s and 1960s Rock Creek Park was mowed regularly. It was easy to find nice spots for picnics and games could be played in many open areas such as at Beach Drive and Kensington Parkway (as just one example), but now thick woods…
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They Criminalized Leaf Blowers; What About the Rest?
Read more: They Criminalized Leaf Blowers; What About the Rest?Gas-powered leaf blowers are super annoying. I recently woke up 7:30 one beautiful Saturday morning to the NASCAR-like grinding of a leaf blower. My initial reaction was to confront my neighbor for working on his lawn during my prime snooze time, but it turned out is was my gardener cleaning up my lawn! Gas blowers…
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Ironic Turn of Events: M-NCPPC, Which Once Fined a Local Man for Foraging Berries in a Park, Now Promotes Events Like “Foraging 2.0” and “Outdoor Skills: Shelter Building for Women & Non-Binary Individuals
Read more: Ironic Turn of Events: M-NCPPC, Which Once Fined a Local Man for Foraging Berries in a Park, Now Promotes Events Like “Foraging 2.0” and “Outdoor Skills: Shelter Building for Women & Non-Binary IndividualsFull disclosure: Yes, I was that guy a few years back (8+ years now!) who was fined $50 by a M-NCPPC police officer for “destroying/interfering with plants to wit: berries. Without a permit on park property.” The charge made local waves and garnered a few local media hits, thanks primarily to author, lawyer, professor and…
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Montgomery County’s “Tree Canopy Law” is Having Consequences Each and Every Summer – and Making “Tree Expert” Companies Very Rich
Read more: Montgomery County’s “Tree Canopy Law” is Having Consequences Each and Every Summer – and Making “Tree Expert” Companies Very RichDid you know you can get a “free” shade tree (maybe, depending where you live) for your property in Montgomery County? It is true… the county runs something called “Tree Montgomery”. This government “program”, a part of the Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection, says people in the county can indeed get “free” shade trees:…
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MoCo’s Sierra Club: It’s not about the trees, it’s about the control
Read more: MoCo’s Sierra Club: It’s not about the trees, it’s about the controlYou’re a Clarksburg parent of two young children. You spend your first 20-minute commute dropping them off at Snowden Farm Elementary School, and now you start your next 60-minute commute into Tyson’s Corner (total 80 minutes). After a day of “work” (in the DC sense of the word), you start your 75-minute commute back to…
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Investigating the Montgomery County “Green Bank” – Part 1
Read more: Investigating the Montgomery County “Green Bank” – Part 1This is part one of an investigative series taking a closer look at the Montgomery County Green Bank, a government institution/financing arm with many interesting connections to politics and politicians. Is it public? Is it “sorta” private? Is it a not-for-profit organization? A corporation? Such questions should continue to surround the Montgomery County “Green Bank”,…