By Wayne Goldstein. In my New Year’s Day column, I quoted from news accounts from the ’90s that described WSSC’s experiences with major breaks of its Prestressed Concrete Cylinder Pipes…
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More Chaos at WSSC
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Volcanic WSSC Commissioner Juanita Miller is at it again. The following email from an anonymous WSSC employee to the Prince George’s and Montgomery County Councils alleges that Miller is going…
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Former WSSC Commissioner Responds to MPW
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Former WSSC Commissioner Manuel R. Geraldo wrote the following comment on our post about the behavior of Prince George’s County Executive Jack Johnson’s WSSC appointees. Johnson appointed Joyce Starks to…
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Flawed Transportation Policies Hit Home
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By Marc Korman. I have spent the past year and a half riding the DC Metro and MARC Train from Bethesda to Baltimore for school each day. I always knew…
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State Senate President Mike Miller seems determined to pass off at least part of the burden of financing teacher pensions to the counties. In reacting to the Governor’s failure to…
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Governor Martin O’Malley, a former mayor of Baltimore, has expressed sympathy for the financial circumstances of local governments ever since taking the reins of the Free State. During the 2007…
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County Council Member Don Praisner, who won a special election to replace his wife last spring, is now in the hospital. There is no indication from the media of the…
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State to MoCo: Build Your Own Trail!
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A recent Examiner article revealed that the state expects Montgomery County to pay for finishing the Capital Crescent Trail near the Purple Line. Are they right that MoCo should pay…
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The Montgomery County Career Fire Fighters Association (MCCFFA) announced more than $7 million in concessions in a tentative deal with the Leggett administration yesterday. But the structure of the deal…
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Following is the text of a memo from County Executive Ike Leggett to County Council President Phil Andrews. While Leggett is a signatory to Purple Line Now’s light rail pledge,…