News and Views
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Investigating the Taxpayer Support of CM Evan Glass’s Former Employer, Gandhi Brigade Youth Medi
Read more: Investigating the Taxpayer Support of CM Evan Glass’s Former Employer, Gandhi Brigade Youth MediMontgomery County Councilmember (and now Council President) Evan Glass’s former employer, a 501c3 charity called Gandhi Brigade Youth Media or GBYM, has raked in State of Maryland and Montgomery County grants, records show. Gandhi Brigade Youth Media states that its mission is to: create communities where young people build the confidence and media skills to express…
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Revisiting Adam P’s Excellent September 2010 Post on MoCo’s “New Normal” for “Maryland Politics Watch”
Read more: Revisiting Adam P’s Excellent September 2010 Post on MoCo’s “New Normal” for “Maryland Politics Watch”Stumbled upon this while searching for something else related to Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich, but here is a devastating, nearly accurate assessment of MoCo’s (and to a degree, Maryland’s) current budget and economic situation in 2023, a full twelve years and six months after this was written up by Adam Pagnucco, now of the…
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Seeds of Stagnation & Decline (Part 2): Marc Elrich’s Early Years in Takoma Park City Government
Read more: Seeds of Stagnation & Decline (Part 2): Marc Elrich’s Early Years in Takoma Park City GovernmentIn Part 1 of this series, we went through some past Takoma Park City Council meeting notes and discovered that current Montgomery County, Maryland Executive Marc Elrich has always had a general distaste for how people and “developers” (aka entrepreneurs or homeowners seeking better and more profitable use of scarce land) use their private property. …
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Book Banning is Alive and Well at Montgomery County Public Libraries
Read more: Book Banning is Alive and Well at Montgomery County Public LibrariesLocal author, and general thorn in the side of Montgomery County COVID lockdown fanatics, co-authored a book that was published in 2023 titled, “Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation”. If you haven’t purchased a copy yet, you can do so via Amazon, here. The book summary on Amazon: The kids…
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Montgomery County’s “Ethnic Advisory” Groups – Inclusion via Exclusion?
Read more: Montgomery County’s “Ethnic Advisory” Groups – Inclusion via Exclusion?Montgomery County government’s sprawling bureaucracy includes the ‘Office of Community Partnerships‘, led by Diane Vy Nguyen-Vu, who is the director. It first came on my radar as I researched Montgomery County’s “Sister Cities” non-profit. More to come on that – like how much did MoCo taxpayers spend on former CM Craig Rice (and maybe future “special…
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Seeds of Stagnation & Decline: County Executive Marc Elrich’s Early Years in Government
Read more: Seeds of Stagnation & Decline: County Executive Marc Elrich’s Early Years in GovernmentMontgomery County Executive Marc Elrich has been in public office, in either Takoma Park, MD city government or Montgomery County government, a staggering 35-plus years. That’s thirty-five, all in a row. In 2006, Elrich began his ascent in local politics, finally winning a seat on the Montgomery County Council after three previous attempts had come…
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CASAgomery County, MD
Read more: CASAgomery County, MDA prominent activist organization across Montgomery County and the state of Maryland is CASA de Maryland. It self-advertises itself as: the foremost immigrant organization in the mid-Atlantic region and a national leader in supporting immigrant families and ensuring that all individuals have the core supports necessary for full participation in society. Now a national immigrant…
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Will Jawando Doubles Down on Conflating His Family History with Black Foundational American History
Read more: Will Jawando Doubles Down on Conflating His Family History with Black Foundational American HistoryCouncilmember Will Jawando (Democrat, At-Large) continues to use misleading language in his proclamations about America’s Black History month. As Clean Slate MoCo documented last month, the Councilmember made an obvious error in February 2022 in stating that “our ancestors” were brought “here in bondage” through the middle passage. As we noted then: His [Jawando’s] mother is…
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Marc Elrich Lauds MoCo’s Minimum Wage “Indexing”, Which Could Spur Still More Inflation
Read more: Marc Elrich Lauds MoCo’s Minimum Wage “Indexing”, Which Could Spur Still More InflationMontgomery County Executive Marc Elrich doesn’t seem to understand or even be familiar with basic cost-push inflation or wage-price spiral theory. Or, if he is familiar with Keynesian economic policy (which he seems to be, based on his rapacious desire for more government “stimulus” spending in 2020-22), CE Elrich seems to think these ideas of…
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Taxpayers Investments in Biotech offer Great Opportunity
Read more: Taxpayers Investments in Biotech offer Great OpportunityThe following is a counterpoint to the article entitled, Are Taxpayer Investments in Biotech Companies Too Risky?, published on March 6 2023. Life Science investing is risky. We should scrutinize the wisdom of any public investment into private ventures. And, our elected leaders, if they don’t have experience in this or other areas,…