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Five reasons you should move to Fairfax County
Read more: Five reasons you should move to Fairfax CountyFairfax County’s County executive (actually, chairman of the Board of Supervisors) is Jeffrey McKay. Here are the highlights from his May 31, 2023 newsletter. Fairfax County-resident labor force is the largest it has ever been. Employers are looking to fill over 70,000 jobs in the county. Fairfax County government needs “to keep our foot on…
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Will Jawando – A Legacy of Control, Punishment, and Favoritism
Read more: Will Jawando – A Legacy of Control, Punishment, and FavoritismCouncilmember Will Jawando is well into his second term, after winning only 17% of the votes in the 2022 Democratic primaries. In this post we list the bills for which he is the only sponsor, and provide a brief analysis. Legislative Initiatives Below are all the council enactments for which CM Jawando was the only…
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After years of same party rule, income inequality hasn’t improved
Read more: After years of same party rule, income inequality hasn’t improvedIn 2017, Adam Pagnucco published an article entitled, MoCo’s Mighty Seven Zip Codes. The article examined the income disparities across a county that, while having a reputation for being wealthy, is actually a county with just very concentrated wealth. The article concluded, after utilizing data from 2011-2015, that: “with the exception of its wealthiest zip…
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Rent Control: Prejudice in the Form of Legislation
Read more: Rent Control: Prejudice in the Form of LegislationDuring the Obama and Trump administrations, the federal government inflated the currency, but you blame the landlords for rent increases. Prices of food are going up, but you put price controls only on the landlords. Prices of insurance are going up, but you put price controls only on the landlords. Prices of fuel are going…
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Marc Elrich’s “Core 19th Century Beliefs”: Seeds of Stagnation Part 3
Read more: Marc Elrich’s “Core 19th Century Beliefs”: Seeds of Stagnation Part 3You can view Part 1 of the series here, and Part 2 here. “Maybe we need a formalized format that brings labor and others into an active discussion on what principles we might agree on – heaven knows that Republicans coalesce around their core 19th century beliefs.” The above “zinger” towards ‘Republicans’ was excerpted from…
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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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Are Taxpayer Investments in Biotech Companies Too Risky?
Read more: Are Taxpayer Investments in Biotech Companies Too Risky?Montgomery County Has Showered Millions of Taxpayer Dollars on Novavax, Company Recently Warned “Substantial Doubt Exists Regarding Our Ability to Continue as a Going Concern” Last week was a volatile one for Gaithersburg, Maryland-based Novavax, as it saw its stock price decline sharply on the back of a form 10-K filing where the firm added…
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CM Evan Glass Proposes “Anti-Hate” Task Force, But Then What is MoCo’s Committee on “Hate / Violence” Really Doing?
Read more: CM Evan Glass Proposes “Anti-Hate” Task Force, But Then What is MoCo’s Committee on “Hate / Violence” Really Doing?…..and what went down at the Annual Montgomery County “Friendship Picnic”? Montgomery County Council President Evan Glass (Democrat, At-Large) made some local headlines this week by proposing [via a letter to Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich] a “task force” to “tackle the incidents that he described as “disturbing and frightening.” Per the letter: Council President…
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18+ Years of Combatting “Hate” Through County Council Resolutions
Read more: 18+ Years of Combatting “Hate” Through County Council ResolutionsIf one navigates to the Montgomery County ‘Legislative Information Management System‘ (LIMS), filters the record type to “Resolutions” and searches for the keyword “hate”… a total of 53 hits comes up from the database. Way back in 2006, there was resolution 15-554, which proposed to: “Consult with members of the Commission on Human Rights, the…