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Showing posts with label Montgomery County Council. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Montgomery County Council. Show all posts
Friday, September 11, 2026

Montgomery County Councilmember Will Jawando discharged from hospital

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Montgomery County Councilmember Will Jawando (D - At-Large) has been discharged from the hospital after a successful surgical procedure foll...
Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Montgomery County Councilmember suffers heart attack

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Montgomery County Councilmember Will Jawando (D - At-Large) suffered a heart attack during a pickup basketball game this past Saturday, Sept...
Sunday, August 2, 2026

Montgomery County Council seeks to remove neighborhood veto power on "benefit performances"

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The Montgomery County Council is proposing to strip residents of their existing veto power over "benefit performances" staged in t...
Monday, July 13, 2026

Montgomery County homeowners slammed as property tax bills arrive

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Montgomery County homeowners are receiving their property tax bills in the mail, and jaws are crashing to the floor countywide. A super doub...
Thursday, June 4, 2026

Another corporate headquarters leaving Montgomery County for Virginia

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Just weeks before the primary election, Montgomery County has lost yet another corporate headquarters to Northern Virginia.  Spatial Front ,...
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Saturday, May 16, 2026

Montgomery County Council raising taxes on the middle class, cutting taxes for cartel oligarchs

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The Montgomery County Council is dropping the hammer on middle class residents in its massive $7.9 billion tax-and-fee-hike FY-2027 budget, ...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Montgomery County government enters the grocery business before Zohran Mamdani

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Montgomery County's Marxist County Council has beaten Zohran Mamdani at his own game. Before the New York City mayor could even acquire ...
Monday, March 9, 2026

Montgomery County Councilmember Shebra Evans hosting town Hall in White Oak March 12

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Recently-appointed Montgomery County Councilmember Shebra Evans (D - At-Large) will host a town hall-style "listening session" on...
Tuesday, March 3, 2026

CNN host diagnoses an embarrassing Montgomery County Council fiscal problem

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CNN host Fareed Zakaria stirred controversy last week when he delivered straight talk on why many jurisdictions like Montgomery County have ...
Thursday, February 5, 2026

Montgomery County property taxes now exceed mortgage payments for many

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For many years, I have written about the fact that property taxes in Montgomery County have essentially become the equivalent of a second mo...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Montgomery County Council seeks to restrict ICE access, ban face masks for law enforcement

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Montgomery County Councilmembers  Will Jawando  (D - At-Large) and  Kristin Mink  (D - District 5) have introduced two bills aimed at curbin...
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

January 1 plastic bag ban looms over Montgomery County

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The Montgomery County Council is known for doing little beyond raising taxes and the cost of doing business, and banning stuff. Councilmembe...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Montgomery County to deploy 140 more speed cameras, 76 more red light cameras to juice revenue

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The Montgomery County Council, in partnership with the County's representatives in the Maryland General Assembly and Maryland Gov. Wes M...
Monday, August 11, 2025

Montgomery County Council votes to increase impervious surfaces days after new flood risk was revealed

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The Montgomery County Council speaks loudly and often about climate change and the environment, but their warmed-over Reaganomics policies b...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Montgomery County Council rams through ZTA to upzone SFH neighborhoods

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The Montgomery County Council took the first major step toward realization of its radical, warmed-over Reaganomics "Thrive 2050" p...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Montgomery County Council wants to ban bamboo

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The few among the public who even know what the Montgomery County Council is, or what it does, would tell you it primarily raises taxes, pro...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Montgomery County Council "caught off guard" by incinerator they oversee

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The Montgomery County Council was "caught off guard" by a trash incinerator in Dickerson it has total oversight authority over, Th...
Saturday, May 24, 2025

Transformer explosion a symptom of corrupt Montgomery County planning policy

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KABOOM! Another Pepco electrical transformer exploded yesterday afternoon in downtown Bethesda's Woodmont Triangle, cutting off power to...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Montgomery County, Maryland leaders embrace their downscale future

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The respective moribund economies of Montgomery County and Maryland have experienced the whiplash of rapid downscaling over the first quarte...
Sunday, April 20, 2025

Elrich to veto Montgomery County Council's massive developer tax break

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Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich has declared his intention to veto a bill recently passed by the Montgomery County Council, which w...