accountability
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Rent Control: The Data Collection Begins
Read more: Rent Control: The Data Collection BeginsIt’s hard to believe that a full year has passed since rent control was passed by the County Council at the behest of Will Jawando and Kristin Mink. On July 18, 2023 I published the first snapshot of the county’s rental market. On October 7, 2023, I published a second snapshot. Since then I’ve been…
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Even ChatGPT is confused by MoCo Elections
Read more: Even ChatGPT is confused by MoCo ElectionsOn June 13th Delegate Sarah Love officially became Sen. Sarah Love. The MoCo elected elite took to X to share their congratulations and gush how she was the “right pick”. It’s official! Congratulations to District 16’s new State Senator, @SaraLove4MD pic.twitter.com/TB5xys9He0 — Marc Korman (@mkorman) June 13, 2024 The strange thing (well strange to anyone…
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OIG: Where Talented Investigators Do a Mediocre Job
Read more: OIG: Where Talented Investigators Do a Mediocre JobClean Slate MoCo and other opposition outlets hold paramount the responsibility and accountability for the county’s elected, appointed, and shadow leadership. Not everyone is comfortable taking the opposition outlets seriously, and for them there is the county’s Office of the Inspector General. The OIG is tasked with the following (source): Review the effectiveness and efficiency…
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Removing a Council Member
Read more: Removing a Council MemberSome jurisdictions provide a remedy for removing an elected official that no longer serves his/her constituency. For Americans, arguably the most important removal procedure is against the president of the United States. Only the House of Representatives can impeach a president, and the Senate conducts the trial for removal. A two-thirds majority in the Senate…
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MCPS Budget: As Transparent as Glass
Read more: MCPS Budget: As Transparent as GlassIn an op-ed piece on MoCo 360, Council Member Evan Glass called for more transparency in how the school system uses the money we lavish upon it—voluntarily or otherwise. Unfortunately…the process for distributing $3 billion across the school system is not transparent. True, but not entirely true. We have some examples of some problematic school…
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MoCo Residents Deserve a Local News Media That Truly Tells “All Sides” of a Story or County Public Policy Proposal
Read more: MoCo Residents Deserve a Local News Media That Truly Tells “All Sides” of a Story or County Public Policy ProposalRecently, a substack post by Don Surber caught my attention. “Let Newspapers Die” was the title. “They dropped objectivity and with it credibility” reads the subtitle. Mr. Surber then goes on to explain, with numbers backing him up and partisan fervor (he feels Republicans don’t get a fair shake by mainstream journos), why he feels…
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Nobody Can Predict the Future — But MoCo’s Trends, Under These Politicians / Ideologues, Seem Clear
Read more: Nobody Can Predict the Future — But MoCo’s Trends, Under These Politicians / Ideologues, Seem ClearNobody can precisely predict the future. But, with a basic understanding of history, economics, business cycles, interest rates and public policy (oh, and political ideology), one can pretty confidently spot and analyze trends. Trends are a fairly constant thing until they “aren’t” of course — but for a clear economic trend to stop, it generally…
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2 Easy Steps to Begin Fixing Public Safety
Read more: 2 Easy Steps to Begin Fixing Public SafetyPublic safety in Montgomery County has deteriorated and all signs point to the trajectory not changing any time soon. As our county council and county executive announce new initiatives daily – from ground breakings to foreign trips – we wonder if the challenge of fixing public safety is too large and too intimidating for them,…
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Non-Profit Cronyism in MoCo – Siphoning Millions From We the Taxpayers
Read more: Non-Profit Cronyism in MoCo – Siphoning Millions From We the TaxpayersMontgomery County is engaged in egregious political cronyism with the “non-profit”, CASA. This is an established fact and one we will not stop exposing. And kudos to Adam Pagnucco at MontgomeryPerspective.com for diving even deeper into the issue today (though he dare not type the word “cronyism” about the County Council or Marc Elrich). What is…
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Teen Who Targeted Officer Has Extensive CaseSearch
Read more: Teen Who Targeted Officer Has Extensive CaseSearchOn October 18th we learned of a horrific incident involving a local officer. Sgt. Patrick Kepp, 36, lost both of his legs after being purposefully targeted by driver Raphael Mayorga who was traveling over 100mph on 270. Sadly, this could have been avoided had our judicial system accurately projected the threat that this particular person…