Conventional wisdom holds that negative campaigning hardly ever happens in Montgomery County. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, the county has a long and rancid history of…
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There is a great hue and cry going up about negative campaigning in District 4. Ben Kramer sent out the flyer below featuring a protest by Alison Klumpp against Nancy…
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Montgomery County Lands Clean Energy Center
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The recent stimulus transportation project list contains no projects exclusively located in Montgomery County. That is an interesting choice for the O’Malley administration.The distribution of the Governor’s project list is:…
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Growth? What Growth?
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For those who are still worried about growth, we have a message for you: there’s nothing to worry about.That’s right, there is little to no growth in Montgomery County at…
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Foolonomics 101
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Last week, the Washington Post reported that Fairfax County beat out Montgomery County to become the new headquarters location of Hilton Hotels. But the Post did not report Montgomery’s miserly…
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So you want to protect your neighborhood from overdevelopment? And you want strong schools and good jobs? Those are mutually compatible goals, right? Not in Montgomery County.As we have seen…
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Last year’s special election in Council District 4 demonstrated the differences between the two groups of “progressives” in Montgomery County as well as any other event in recent history. Each…
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Who are the Real MoCo Progressives? Part Two
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Through the 1970s, there were relatively few non-white or Latino people in Montgomery County. That began to change in the 1980s. Nearly thirty years later, our political system is only…
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Who are the Real MoCo Progressives? Part One
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Many people believe that Montgomery County is a one-party jurisdiction. They are wrong. Montgomery has two parties. One party calls itself the progressives. The other party calls itself the progressives….