The Examiner is the first mainstream media outlet to do original reporting on the county’s plan to give a $4 million subsidy to create a Costco store in Wheaton. No…
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Costco Story Picked up by USA Today
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USA Today has linked to our last post on Costco in Wheaton and site traffic is pouring in. This story is on the verge of getting out of control and…
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Revelations Mount on Costco in Wheaton
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Last week, MPW broke the story that the county was secretly considering a $4 million subsidy to bring Costco to Westfield Wheaton. This story is moving rapidly as new facts…
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The Leggett administration is secretly considering a $4 million subsidy to lure Costco to Westfield Wheaton. When – or if – it plans to make the subsidy available for public…
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Can Teacher Pensions be Fixed? Part Four
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Interest is growing in Annapolis in sending teacher pensions down to the counties. Manno’s bill offers a way out. But we are very cautious about predicting a happy end to…
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Can Teacher Pensions be Fixed? Part Three
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Delegate Roger Manno (D-19) has proposed a bill to use revenues from a permanent millionaire tax and combined reporting to support the state’s beleaguered teacher and employee pension funds. Yesterday,…
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Can Teacher Pensions be Fixed? Part Two
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Delegate Roger Manno (D-19) has introduced a bill that would keep teacher pensions at the state level, but pay for them with an extension of the millionaire tax and combined…
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Following are the remarks of Montgomery County Education Association (MCEA) President Doug Prouty from the union’s recent legislative breakfast, in which he brands any handoff of teacher pensions to the…
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MoCo Delegation Considers MOE Waiver Bill
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The Montgomery County Delegation is now considering a local bill to waive the county’s Maintenance of Effort (MOE) penalty for FY 2010. Since the bill is co-sponsored by five of…
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Delegate Roger Manno (D-19) has proposed an ambitious plan to fix the state’s troubled teacher pension program as well as to prevent pension liabilities from getting passed down to the…