At this moment, the County Council, the Montgomery County Board of Elections (BOE) and the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) are locked in a struggle over the dates of the…
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Last year, the General Assembly unanimously passed a bill that created a searchable online database of vendor payments by state agencies exceeding $25,000. Montgomery County Council Members Phil Andrews and…
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The majority of our informants thought we got it mostly right on our post about Senate President Mike Miller’s effort to force the counties to eat teacher pensions. But one…
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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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Where MoCo’s State School Aid Went
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As we reported last month, a state property assessment mistake overestimated Montgomery County’s relative wealth level, thereby sending $24 million in state school aid that should have gone to Montgomery…
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Yesterday, sixteen Senators wrote the following letter to Governor O’Malley about education spending in next year’s budget.January 13, 2009 Governor Martin O’MalleyState House100 State CircleAnnapolis, MD 21401 Dear Governor O’Malley:…
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MCEA Sets its Annapolis Agenda
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Following are the remarks of MCEA President Bonnie Cullison at the union’s legislative breakfast this past Saturday. In attendance was the vast majority of Montgomery’s statehouse delegation. Note the union’s…
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In a shocking memo only now making the rounds of Montgomery County’s political and educational communities, Superintendent of Schools Jerry Weast reveals that a mistake in state budget formulas resulted…
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Horse Breeders or Kids?
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A recent Examiner article on a proposal by Delegate Luiz Simmons (D-17) to strip a $100 million subsidy from slots to the horse-racing industry raises an interesting question: should slots…