News and Views
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Promoting More Inequality and Feeding Addiction? Sen King Sponsors Expansion of Internet Gambling in Maryland
Read more: Promoting More Inequality and Feeding Addiction? Sen King Sponsors Expansion of Internet Gambling in MarylandMontgomery County, Maryland State Senator (Nancy King, a Democrat, District 39) appears as a co-lead sponsor for a bill that would push to expand internet gambling in Maryland. The bill would authorize “the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission to issue certain licenses to certain video lottery operators to conduct or participate in certain Internet gaming…
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Part 1: Is @Marc_Elrich really a “personal” account
Read more: Part 1: Is @Marc_Elrich really a “personal” accountThe following is a multi-part series on the Twitter accounts of the Montgomery County Council. It has been written and submitted by an anonymous author. Part 2 on Will Jawando can be found here. If you have been blocked by any members of the Montgomery County Council on Twitter, please contact us at inquiry@cleanslatemoco.com As…
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MoCo’s SBIR/STTR Matching Grant Program – What Do Taxpayers Really Get for Their “Invested” Dollars?
Read more: MoCo’s SBIR/STTR Matching Grant Program – What Do Taxpayers Really Get for Their “Invested” Dollars?Another ‘matching grant program’ by Montgomery County came to my attention last week. County Executive Marc Elrich’s newsletter promoted the “Montgomery County Small Business Research Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) matching grant program”. Curious, I looked into the grant program, and note that it is designed to ‘support companies engaged in research…
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MCPS ignores their own book evaluation regulation (for some books)
Read more: MCPS ignores their own book evaluation regulation (for some books)Previously covered in an article written by Jessica Chasmar for Fox News, as well as touched upon in an article on CleanSlateMoCo, three books submitted to MCPS for assessment under their required policy for library and instructional materials received eye-opening reviews in November of 2022. The books, published by Heroes of Liberty, provided an account…
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Flat Tire-gate: Top 10
Read more: Flat Tire-gate: Top 10Number 10 Hypocrisy is not a good optic. With no data to back her claim of systemic racism, Ms. Mink has called for defunding. She has called for reducing the presence of police in our communities in order to limit interactions between police and the residents they are called on to serve (while other elected…
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Vaccine investor Sen. Kagan wants minors to make their own vaccine decisions
Read more: Vaccine investor Sen. Kagan wants minors to make their own vaccine decisionsSenator Kagan, in a very bold move, has introduced legislation that will dismantle parental oversight when it comes to medical decisions of minors. In something that appears to be taken straight out of a California policy play book, the introduced bill establishes a new “age” for consent based on the premise that a minor has…
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HB433 Won’t Put the Toothpaste Back in the Tube in MoCo
Read more: HB433 Won’t Put the Toothpaste Back in the Tube in MoCoThe hypocrisy and irony inherent in HB433: Expanding the Freedom to Serve Act, sponsored by David Fraser-Hidalgo and Cheryl Kagan, are too blatant to go unchecked. The bill states, “There is an ongoing shortage of police officers in our communities. The Freedom to Serve Act will significantly increase the potential candidates of law enforcement applicants…
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CM Will Jawando’s Home Could Host an Acre of Solar Panels – With Room to Spare
Read more: CM Will Jawando’s Home Could Host an Acre of Solar Panels – With Room to SpareCouncil Member Will Jawando was endorsed by ‘Our Revolution MD’ prior to the 2022 County Council election. ‘Our Revolution MD’ is a state-level org/entity of the geriatric Senator and twice-defeated Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ org called “Our Revolution”, a partisan (527?) organization that wants full-bore socialism and centralized power in the hands of a few…
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Has DHHS fumbled Opioid prevention?
Read more: Has DHHS fumbled Opioid prevention?In 2017, Governor Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency in MD as it relates to opioids. As part of this declaration, additional funding for 5 years was provided to improve enforcement, prevention and treatment services. The funding allocated was $50 million dollars, with 80% of it for local jurisdictions. [side note: the 2018 budget…
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MoCo’s housing isn’t dirt cheap, but it’s close (Part 2)
Read more: MoCo’s housing isn’t dirt cheap, but it’s close (Part 2)This is Part 2 in a series on our county’s distorted housing market. You can read Part 1 here. When it comes to housing policy in Montgomery County (and probably other jurisdictions), the activists and policymakers ignore science and gravitate to unfounded generalizations that justify a policy they want to implement. Some County Council members…