For the first time in its history, Maryland Politics Watch has been the most-visited state political blog in Maryland over a four-month period.From October 2008 through January 2009, here are…
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Who Will Call the Question on WSSC?
It has been more than a month since the life-threatening water pipe break on River Road. And while Montgomery County Council Members have begun to raise questions, a solution to…
Big Daddy’s Revenge (Updated!)
Unfathomably, GOP Senators Alex Mooney (R-3), Janet Greenip (R-33) and Andy Harris (R-7) voted against Mike Miller’s inevitable re-election as Senate President again. All regular readers know how important defending…
More Chaos at WSSC
Volcanic WSSC Commissioner Juanita Miller is at it again. The following email from an anonymous WSSC employee to the Prince George’s and Montgomery County Councils alleges that Miller is going…
Former WSSC Commissioner Responds to MPW
Former WSSC Commissioner Manuel R. Geraldo wrote the following comment on our post about the behavior of Prince George’s County Executive Jack Johnson’s WSSC appointees. Johnson appointed Joyce Starks to…
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…
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…
County Council Member Don Praisner, who won a special election to replace his wife last spring, is now in the hospital. There is no indication from the media of the…
State to MoCo: Build Your Own Trail!
A recent Examiner article revealed that the state expects Montgomery County to pay for finishing the Capital Crescent Trail near the Purple Line. Are they right that MoCo should pay…
The Montgomery County Career Fire Fighters Association (MCCFFA) announced more than $7 million in concessions in a tentative deal with the Leggett administration yesterday. But the structure of the deal…