As Montgomery County still battles with every increasing inflation, a quick look at the Montgomery County Charter will show you how the Council Members have guaranteed themselves the ability to keep pace with inflation much better than a majority of the county. In Sec. 1A-106. Salaries of the County Executive and Councilmembers it states: This…
In securing the coveted Apple Ballot endorsement, Natalie Zimmerman who is running for BOE District 2, completed a questionnaire where she professed to be an abolitionist educator. While parts of MoCo are probably highly aware of what this language means, we are guessing that the Leisure World mee-maw and the 60 hour a week plumber…
First and foremost, our sincere prayers are with the families of the victims of this event. And not for one second did we ever doubt that our first responders would turn their backs on an emergency. They are like buffalo – they face the storm straight on. However, we are a bit, shall we say…
Today, via its Twitter account, MCEA teased the release of a social media toolkit to support the BOE candidates that it has endorsed. Join the #RedforED #MCEAAppleBallot Blitz tomorrow! A social media toolkit with shareable graphics, captions, and the candidates’ handles is available at https://t.co/lFPIuM297x pic.twitter.com/hgOkUJrTQq — Montgomery County Education Association (@mceanea) March 26, 2024…
We recently released how the 3 Apple Ballot endorsed candidates answered the survey sent by MCEA. Make sure to check out how they answered each question in full. We took some time to pull excerpts of responses from 2 candidates:
Wellllll, since the Apple endorsed candidates will not be transparent and release the answers they provided to the Apple Ballot Questionnaire and since MCEA will not release the answers the candidates provided…..we will. This of course does not cover any additional interviews the candidates took part in, what they might have been asked, and how…
Fresh off his demands for higher corporate and income taxes in Maryland, as well as his push for the set-up of “special taxing districts” locally, Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich has set his sites on taxing music – be it recorded or live. “People are playing music for free every day. People are consuming live…
The following was submitted by a reader that wished to remain anonymous. In March of 2023 County Executive Marc Elrich traveled to Taiwan with a Montgomery County Delegation that included Council Member Fani-Gonzalez. As reported by mymcm, he was invited to speak at the 2023 Smart City Summit and Expo and decided to use the…