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MoCo Delegate Wilkins Frets About a “Reduction in the People Who Are Entering Casinos” While Gambling Addiction Spikes
Read more: MoCo Delegate Wilkins Frets About a “Reduction in the People Who Are Entering Casinos” While Gambling Addiction SpikesIncoherent nanny state-ism reared its head again in Annapolis this past month. Obsessed with promoting wealth inequality in Maryland and squeezing gambling addicts or other targeted, desperate people for every red cent, Annapolis politicians received a report called the “Maryland Online Casino Study”. A briefing of the Maryland online casino study presented Thursday in front…
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One Party Rule Isn’t Enough, We Need Twitter Spies to Keep Power
Read more: One Party Rule Isn’t Enough, We Need Twitter Spies to Keep PowerSilver Spring-based Maryland state delegate Jheanelle Wilkins (Democrat), herself a frequent user of social media accounts to spread election and public policy influence (and to take plenty of partisan shots), doesn’t appear to be a fan of free speech or tech platforms like X (formerly Twitter) that allow it. Co-sponsoring House Bill 333 this year in…
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The Fallacy of County-Funded Aging-In-Place
Read more: The Fallacy of County-Funded Aging-In-PlaceHuman relationships are fickle. Probably the most fickle are high-school romances (for those of you who were lucky enough to have had one or two or three). Another example is bloggers on local politics such as myself. We can love our elected leaders, and we can just as easily hand them demerits. Such is the…
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MoCo’s “Boost” – No Strings, Taxpayer Funded Universal Basic Income Program
Read more: MoCo’s “Boost” – No Strings, Taxpayer Funded Universal Basic Income ProgramWhen I first saw that email, I’ll be honest, I thought it was a scam. Have you seen the Montgomery County Collaboration Council’s (see screen shot below) newest video promoting the “story” of the Montgomery County UBI program participant? Probably not. As of this writing, it only has 38 views after being posted for a…
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Aquatic Access or Sharing May Not Always Be Caring
Read more: Aquatic Access or Sharing May Not Always Be CaringIf you utilize MoCo’s indoor pools you know it’s hard to get a lane during the regular school months because our public schools promote swim clubs and teams despite the schools having playing fields, but no pools. They get priority at tax-payer built municipal pools. Public school swim programs are allowed to reserve lanes, but not…
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ZTA 24-01: Living Closer to God
Read more: ZTA 24-01: Living Closer to GodThere are reasons I don’t get invited to parties, the most obvious being my enthusiasm over liberalization in zoning laws. A typical conversation when I meet someone new at a wedding goes like this. “What are your hobbies?” “Pushing for removal of height restrictions. Yours?” “I’ll go get myself another brewsky. You stay here.” Just…
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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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Evan Glass Endorses Ranked-Choice Voting
Read more: Evan Glass Endorses Ranked-Choice VotingGoing back to November 7, 2023, Council Member Evan Glass expressed his support for ranked-choice voting. It’s Election Day! Make sure to vote if there’s an election in your community. And let’s continue working to ensure that there’s ranked choice voting in more communities next year!#electionday #rankedchoicevoting #rcv #democracy pic.twitter.com/zvYS2O4NFN — Councilmember Evan Glass (@CMEvanGlass)…
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ZTA 23-10 Part 2: Sites for No-Parking Residences
Read more: ZTA 23-10 Part 2: Sites for No-Parking ResidencesIn Part 1 of this series we mentioned that Zoning Text Amendment 23-10 exempts residential construction from any parking requirements within a one-half mile of Metro, Purple Line, and Bus Transit Centers. Where are these sites, and what is within a half-mile radius around them? I drew circles around each of the county’s Metro, Purple…
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Roads into Bike-Paths
Read more: Roads into Bike-PathsWhat will happen next regarding Beach Drive? For some years now portions of Beach Drive, both in DC and MoCo, are closed for certain days: cars prohibited in order to give bikers a wide-open road and so we exacerbate the motorist versus bicyclist polarization, already long past the point of triggering random road rages. I…