Have you ever encountered a cockroach that was almost as big as your foot? And upon stomping on the creature, the roach looked up at you and said, “Is that…
County Budget 2010
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MCEA Bargaining and Budget Update
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The Montgomery County Education Association (MCEA) is bargaining a new contract with the Montgomery County Public Schools, as are SEIU Local 500 and the supervisors’ union. This video is a…
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MoCo’s Budget Problem
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A recent county budget presentation given by Chief Administrative Officer Tim Firestine to the Montgomery Delegation makes clear that the county’s budget problems are just as serious – and just…
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Knapp Proposes Budget Summit
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County Council Member Mike Knapp has proposed a “budget summit” for this year’s grisly $608 million cut-and-slash fest. Normally, the budget proceeds through a slow and sequential process. The Superintendent…
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Let’s play connect the dots, folks. Republican Scott Brown defeated Democrat Martha Coakley in Tuesday’s U.S. Senate special election in Massachusetts. That means President Obama’s health care plan is unlikely…
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ACT: Use Costco Subsidy to Prevent Bus Cuts
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Action Committee for Transit (ACT) has written the County Council urging them to use money intended to subsidize Costco in Wheaton to support the Ride-On bus system instead.County Executive Ike…
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The Leggett administration is secretly considering a $4 million subsidy to lure Costco to Westfield Wheaton. When – or if – it plans to make the subsidy available for public…
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And so it has begun. MCPS Superintendent Jerry Weast has fired the first shot in what may be his last and greatest battle: the fight over the Fiscal Year 2011…
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Weast: “Devastating Impact on the Children”
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Has the MoCo Economy Hit Bottom?
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Every business cycle has an inflection point, a moment when up turns down or down turns up. Economists have great trouble identifying them contemporaneously, often finding them after many months…