In a jam-packed conference room last Wednesday night, MoCo County Council Transportation Committee Chairwoman Nancy Floreen rolled out her parking space tax proposal before the county’s business community. Hey, do…
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Time to Get Rid of Steve Abrams (Updated)
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The Gazette Editorial Board must not read the Gazette. If they did, they would never have endorsed incumbent school board member Steve Abrams’ bid for re-election.Forget about the fact that…
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The Final Debate
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By Sharon Dooley. John McCain entered the final campaign debate of 2008 in full offensive mode. He came into the evening like an old bull ready for one last outing…
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In the Wake of Saqib-Mania (Updated)
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It is a great shame that we ran our MoCo Most Influential survey prior to the revelations about Delegate Saqib Ali’s Facebook page. Had Saqib-Mania erupted prior to the survey,…
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Maryland, Chicken Manure and Climate Change
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By Marc Korman. The Maryland Commission on Climate Change issued its action plan in August. The plan sets ambitious goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Maryland in the coming…
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The Montgomery County Sentinel is running a series in which they ask all of Montgomery County’s delegation about their positions on the slots referendum. This week, they post responses from…
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United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts puts on a textbook demonstration of how to talk about the presidential race with working class voters in Virginia. (If the feed doesn’t work,…
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Show Us the Money That Slots Will Bring
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by Wayne Goldstein, Montgomery County Civic Federation Immediate Past President. People are starting to pay close attention to the slots referendum on the November ballot. It is one of the…
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Who Really Opposes Slots? (Revisited)
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Back in May, we commented on the fact that very few “anti-slots” politicians were stepping up to support the campaign against the referendum. After seeing the financial contributions reported by…
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MoCo’s Great Crash, Part Two
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In Part One, we made the case that Montgomery County’s real estate and construction industries together might account for one-fifth or more of the county’s private sector economic activity. And…