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…
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MoCo’s Great Crash, Part One
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There is a lot of talk about a Great Crash: that of America’s stock market. And there is a lot of talk about another Great Crash: that of America’s economy….
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Campaign Debate UMBC at Shady Grove, Political Science and History Programs andMontgomery College History & Political Science Department Brian Feldman (D), Maryland State Delegate, MoCo D15 (Representing Obama)Jim Shalleck (R),…
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Mr. Cool vs. the Prowler
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By Sharon Dooley. Tuesday’s debate featured Senators Barack Obama and John McCain in a so-called Town Hall Meeting. This event was far more structured than the ones in previous years,…
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Shameless Plug
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Once Delegate Saqib Ali introduced us to the joys of Facebook, it was only a matter of time before I set up a Facebook page for this blog. For those…
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Reaction to MoCo’s Most Influential People
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If we can take a break from Saqib-Mania for a moment, let’s return to the biggest story from last week: our series on Montgomery County’s most influential people. We have…
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When you’ve made Olbermann’s Worst Person list, you really have nothing left in life to achieve! Now when is Keith going to find out about conservative blogger Mark Newgent, who…