Every year in the beginning of December, a solemn ritual takes place at the Montgomery County Council. The council hails the departing President for all of the work accomplished in…
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Following is the press release from the County Council.Contact: Neil H. Greenberger 240-777-7939 / Jean Arthur 240-777-7934 / Delphine Harriston 240-777-7931 Montgomery County Council to Host Gaithersburg West/N. Potomac/ Darnestown…
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Snippety-Snip!
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Here’s the latest round-up of snippety-snips from Rockville!Snippety…Council Member Valerie Ervin on County Executive Ike Leggett’s pending proposal for $30 million in cuts: Councilwoman Valerie Ervin, D-Silver Spring, criticized Leggett’s…
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Council Staff: Blast from the Past
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Check out these two photos of the County Council staff from the mid-1990s.Our camera-toting spy tells us this photo was taken in 1996. Ike Leggett cuts a dashing presence near…
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Just a few notes from today’s Labor Day Parade in Kensington.This parade is one of Montgomery County’s premier political events in an election year. Despite this being an off year,…
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Snippety-Snip!
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Michael Laris, the Post’s new MoCo reporter, has written a delightful account of snip-snipping between the County Council and the MoCo Delegation. The genteel Ann Marimow would never have written…
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Ben Kramer and Nancy Navarro were not the only two people affected by the special election. The rest of the county’s politicians will see the consequences too.County Executive Ike Leggett…
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The Washington Post’s Boy King
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Former CBS anchor Walter Cronkite was once called “the voice of God.” And for some people, that’s how the Washington Post editorial page appears. After all, there’s the elegant masthead…
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Spies React to Duchy Walkout
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Just when you might think there’s nothing more to say about yesterday’s post, our spies stepped up. Here’s what they had to say about the incident and the County Council…
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Duchy Trachtenberg Walks Out
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In the most extreme symptom of a general unrest that has been permeating the County Council for months, Council Member Duchy Trachtenberg became so aggravated with a colleague that she…