News and Views
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10,000 Reasons to Term Limit Marc Elrich (and Future County Executives)
Read more: 10,000 Reasons to Term Limit Marc Elrich (and Future County Executives)Since term limits for the Montgomery County Executive will be on the ballot in November (yay, real democracy!), let us now look at the many reasons to further term limit the County Exec (eight years is plenty of time), and send Marc Elrich home to his Takoma Park abode. Marc Elrich is a career politician…
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MoCo’s “Boost” UBI-Test Program, Pushed by CM Jawando, is Getting Scaled Back — And We Still Don’t Have a “First Draft” of the Urban Institute’s “Evaluation”
Read more: MoCo’s “Boost” UBI-Test Program, Pushed by CM Jawando, is Getting Scaled Back — And We Still Don’t Have a “First Draft” of the Urban Institute’s “Evaluation”Remember the no-strings “free cash” pilot program started in FY 2023 (calendar year 2022) by the Montgomery County Council? Funded in part by your tax dollars (over $3 million, although part was provided by a private grantor), the pilot program was another attempt by some on the County Council to “be like DC” and hand…
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Best Place to Live?!?!
Read more: Best Place to Live?!?!Today the County Council celebrated a published ranking by Fortune that put Silver Spring as “The Best Place to Raise a Family“. Given the barrage of crime and fleeing retail this is a shocking result. It was only a few months ago that the County Council was handing out free cameras and imposing curfews for…
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Local “Defenders of Democracy” Promote Coronation for Nominee Within 24 Hours of President Joe Biden Announcement, Reject a Mini-Primary
Read more: Local “Defenders of Democracy” Promote Coronation for Nominee Within 24 Hours of President Joe Biden Announcement, Reject a Mini-PrimaryIt took roughly 24 hours, but Councilmembers on Montgomery County’s legislative body, sometimes called the “MoCo Council”, quickly and dutifully coalesced around Vice President Kamala Harris as the potential US Presidential Nominee for their political club/tribe in 2024. Their proclamations of loyalty and (seemingly) enthusiastic endorsement of Vice President Harris as the “blue tribe” nominee…
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Parents, it’s time to declare our independence from union control of schools
Read more: Parents, it’s time to declare our independence from union control of schoolsIndependence requires courage, conviction, and a clear vision. In a letter to his wife on July 3, 1776, John Adams wrote: “Through all the gloom, I can see the rays of light and glory; I can see that the end is more than worth all the means, and that posterity will triumph.” Just as our…
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Why is college tuition so expensive? Because of Monifa McKnight’s contribution to administrative bloat
Read more: Why is college tuition so expensive? Because of Monifa McKnight’s contribution to administrative bloatThe outrage over Monifa McKnight’s appointment to a cush job at the University of Maryland centers on qualification: does she really deserve that job after her horrific behavior at MCPS? There’s another aspect of her appointment that needs to be discussed: necessity. Study after study has identified the causes of an American university’s outrageous tuition.…
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MCPS Juniors and Seniors: Ditch the SAT, the colleges need you more than you need them.
Read more: MCPS Juniors and Seniors: Ditch the SAT, the colleges need you more than you need them.I was talking with a general contractor a few weeks ago. He was dismayed at the bills he gets from plumbers, electricians, HVAC technicians, and disaster remediation specialists. “It costs me $250 just to get a plumber to walk through the door,” he wailed. “In 10 years they’ll be asking for a whole lot more.”…
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The Many Times CE Marc Elrich “Gets Personal” When Discussing the Political or Mundane
Read more: The Many Times CE Marc Elrich “Gets Personal” When Discussing the Political or MundaneWhen does the political get “personal”? Increasingly, with MoCo County Exec Marc Elrich, it appears to occur whenever someone has a different policy idea or theory on governing than him. Take, for example, his recent personal jab on Reardon “Sully” Sullivan as reported by Adam Pagnucco (himself reporting on Fox 5’s Tom Fitzgerald’s interview with…
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Jawando, Mink, and Sayles throw cannabis prisoners under the CASA bus
Read more: Jawando, Mink, and Sayles throw cannabis prisoners under the CASA busUnder the Revenue Act of 1862, the Union seized land from Southern landowners, and eventually auctioned those lands to freed slaves. In 1865, General Sherman issued Special Field Orders 15, allowing the confiscation of 400,000 acres of land in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, dividing it into parcels of 40 acres to be settled by…
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MoCo Chief Exec Sweats Out the Heatwave, Demands All A/Cs Be Turned Off “In Solidarity” with Him, Mother Gaia
Read more: MoCo Chief Exec Sweats Out the Heatwave, Demands All A/Cs Be Turned Off “In Solidarity” with Him, Mother GaiaCE Marc Elrich (Democrat, 30+ years in office) has been without air conditioning at his Takoma Park home for about a month from June-July (per a radio report by WMAL Newstalk local), as he waits for an A/C unit part to be delivered. Yesterday, the sweaty and fed up Montgomery Chief Executive issued a strongly…