By Frank Anastasi. The State of Maryland is about to take a definitive move on the planned Rockville District Courthouse on October 15 when the Department of General Services (DGS)…
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Pom-Poms for Palin
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By Sharon Dooley. Sarah Palin was perky and folksy during the VP debate and, as she has said: “comin’ at cha!” Maybe the gray heads running McCain’s campaign found that…
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C&O National Historical Park Damage
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By Marc Korman. The Gazette recently reported that the popular towpath at the C&O National Historical Park suffered major damage as a result of Tropical Storm Hanna. As a result,…
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Ike, We Need You at Home
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Ike Leggett is a good man and I have written favorably about him in the past. But someone is seriously leading him astray in advising him that now is a…
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Our respondents collectively nominated 171 individuals as the most influential non-elected people in Montgomery County. Of these people, 108 received just one vote and 22 received two. To make it…
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Our respondents collectively nominated 51 elected officials as the most influential leaders in Montgomery County. Here are the leaders, along with some commentary from myself and our voters.1. Ike Leggett,…
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The Maryland ACLU dramatically upped the ante on the police spying scandal today, issuing new FOIAs for documents related to 32 advocacy groups and more than 250 individuals. This scandal…
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MPW Bailout Poll
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In writing this series, I asked some of the county’s smartest and most connected people two questions. Who are the county’s ten most influential elected officials? And who are the…
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Voting for the Bailout Bill: Wayne Gilchrest, Chris Van Hollen, Steny Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes. Voting against the Bailout Bill: Roscoe Bartlett, Elijah Cummings, Donna Edwards.Rep. Bartlett is the…