News and Views
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Pronouns Banished in CleanSlate Newsroom
Read more: Pronouns Banished in CleanSlate NewsroomThe whole pronoun thing has been causing a lot of friction among CleanSlate’s content creators. The bloggers use gender assigned at birth, the graphic artists are transitioning to alcoholics, and the investigators are cross dressing between dirty plaids and filthy solids. All these groups are spending more time during meetings correcting each other’s pronouns than…
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Big Questions? We Will Be In Touch (jk)
Read more: Big Questions? We Will Be In Touch (jk)The following was submitted by a reader that wished to remain anonymous. We are publishing it as submitted. With the debate over MCPS’s policy for opt-out taking place, I wanted to understand where each Council Member stood on the issue. I took the time in early July to write an email asking for their opinion. …
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Let’s Bag the Bag Tax
Read more: Let’s Bag the Bag TaxThe English writer Edward Bulwer Lytton said, “The pen is mightier than the sword.” At Clean Slate MoCo, we say, “Taking a percentage is mightier than a Russian T-90 tank (if the Russians still have any).” Let’s apply that principle to the bag tax. Plastic bags are indeed a problem. If I’m eating a take-out…
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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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Community Profiler: Robert Dyer
Read more: Community Profiler: Robert DyerCleanSlateMoCo is conducting interviews of local community members. These are people that though they do not hold office, are important voices in Montgomery County. They represent the fabric of the county; individuals that might have had a unique experience, or maybe are involved in a unique activity, or maybe are just normal folks trying to…
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Opt-Out Rally #3: Yes, Whites Still Control People of Color
Read more: Opt-Out Rally #3: Yes, Whites Still Control People of ColorMaybe it was the weather. Less than one-third of the people showed up for today’s opt-out rally compared to the previous one. By one-third, I mean that the no-choice crowd had seven people in attendance, compared to about 20 last time. Still no diversity in terms of ethnicity; they were, and always have been, whites.…
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Community Profile: Coach Ali Hashemzadeh
Read more: Community Profile: Coach Ali HashemzadehCleanSlateMoCo is conducting interviews of local community members. These are people that though they do not hold office, are important voices in Montgomery County. They represent the fabric of the county; individuals that might have had a unique experience, or maybe are involved in a unique activity, or maybe are just normal folks trying to…
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Exile the Poor, Keep the Golf Courses
Read more: Exile the Poor, Keep the Golf CoursesIn his 1967 speech The Three Evils of Society, Martin Luther King, Jr. accused white civil rights leaders, and whites in general, of promoting “socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor.” His line of argument was compelling, and evoked what today’s free-market activists think about government programs: no matter what that program is,…
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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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Wanted: Rent-Control Stories
Read more: Wanted: Rent-Control StoriesCouncil Members Mink and Jawando are pushing hard to get rent control passed in Montgomery County. CM Stewart is on board, because she really believes that rent control gives renters a “predictable housing,” an outcome that didn’t happen in Takoma Park. It’s hard to know what the final version will look like, but one thing…