News and Views
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Are Our Teachers as Emotionally Stunted as Their Union Reps?
Read more: Are Our Teachers as Emotionally Stunted as Their Union Reps?My wife recently overheard another woman talking into a cell phone in a restroom. “If your mother gives us $50, and if we don’t put our little Cyrus in day care this week, then we’ll be able to pay the phone and electric bills.” This is heartbreaking. While some DC power couples grossing $500,000/year also…
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Reason #9 for School Vouchers: Empathy
Read more: Reason #9 for School Vouchers: EmpathyI had a co-worker who over time became a good friend. During our many lunches together, he often expressed a strong pro-life stance: abortion is wrong, he could never do such a thing. At one point this great-looking, successful guy met an equally great-looking, successful girl. They got married, got pregnant, found their first starter…
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Even ChatGPT is confused by MoCo Elections
Read more: Even ChatGPT is confused by MoCo ElectionsOn June 13th Delegate Sarah Love officially became Sen. Sarah Love. The MoCo elected elite took to X to share their congratulations and gush how she was the “right pick”. It’s official! Congratulations to District 16’s new State Senator, @SaraLove4MD pic.twitter.com/TB5xys9He0 — Marc Korman (@mkorman) June 13, 2024 The strange thing (well strange to anyone…
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The Takoma Park City Machine – How Takoma Park Uses Tax Dollars to Press Forward an Ideological Agenda to MoCo, Maryland and Beyond
Read more: The Takoma Park City Machine – How Takoma Park Uses Tax Dollars to Press Forward an Ideological Agenda to MoCo, Maryland and BeyondAlways follow the money and the influencers. Oh, and the 501c3s, c4s, etc. The City of Takoma Park’s influence on MoCo government policy has been covered here before but a quick review of the 501c3 non-profit Old Takoma Business Association’s (OTBA) website provides more visual examples of what this tiny town (population 17,500) does with…
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Marc Elrich Reacts to Ballot Petition Signature Submissions Being Dropped Off; County Charter (Potentially) Being Changed to Restrict County Exec to Two Terms
Read more: Marc Elrich Reacts to Ballot Petition Signature Submissions Being Dropped Off; County Charter (Potentially) Being Changed to Restrict County Exec to Two TermsFresh news from Rockville, MD as the Committee for Better Government delivered 12,139 signatures to the County Executive’s office so that a question can be placed on the November, 2024 ballot to limit the number of consecutive four-year terms that the Montgomery County Executive may hold. The group remarked that this is the first of…
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Montoya tries to thread the budget needle
Read more: Montoya tries to thread the budget needleSquarely in the pocket of MCEA, Rita Montoya took to X today to showcase her support for MCEA protests and educate the general public on budget cuts. In a somewhat snarky, and very self-assured manner, she provided a citizen the dictionary definition of a budget cut. When MCPS & BOE decide to allocate less funding…
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Tale as Old as Time – Once Government (Taxpayer) Largesse Dries Up, Another Rockville Business Moves On
Read more: Tale as Old as Time – Once Government (Taxpayer) Largesse Dries Up, Another Rockville Business Moves OnDawson’s Market, a higher-priced grocer (actually the only grocery store) in Rockville Town Square is departing, after threatening the same action about six years ago because of quote “declining sales” back in 2019. Per Sebastien Kraft with MoCo360 Media: This isn’t surprising in the least. In fact, it goes to the heart of why government,…
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My Dream Job
Read more: My Dream JobEvan Glass was in a Pride Parade on Rockville Pike that got lost and was stranded in Urbana. Will Jawando fled to Wyoming because no MCPD officer had an extension cord long enough for a defunded motorized scooter to respond to his emergency calls. Kristin Mink was trapped in a never-ending drum circle with her…
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Councilmember Sayles Talks Up Barriers Broken, Ceilings Shattered as an “At-Large” MoCo Politician to Local Girl Scout Troop
Read more: Councilmember Sayles Talks Up Barriers Broken, Ceilings Shattered as an “At-Large” MoCo Politician to Local Girl Scout TroopFresh off a disappointing 6th place loss in the Democrat primary for U.S. Congress, House District 6, Councilmember “At Large” Laurie-Anne Sayles is back at her day job representing the whole of MoCo and talking to the youth. Oh, and defending local democracy. Including that “democracy” that appoints a select insider to a state senate…
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Alternatives to the MCPS Model of Educational Resource Allocation
Read more: Alternatives to the MCPS Model of Educational Resource AllocationGiven the results of last month’s Board of Education primaries, in which incumbents or union endorsees (and also Brenda Diaz!) won the top spots, some in the opposition have come to the conclusion that getting the best education for our students is no longer possible through MCPS. People are already talking about “school choice” or…