News and Views
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CM Laurie-Anne Sayles Appears to Attend Will Jawando’s Mega Church (Its Non-Profit Corp Has Received Thousands in Taxpayer Funding)
Read more: CM Laurie-Anne Sayles Appears to Attend Will Jawando’s Mega Church (Its Non-Profit Corp Has Received Thousands in Taxpayer Funding)Revisiting an earlier topic / investigation today, first published here at CleanSlateMoCo.com. It is regarding the non-profit arm of an AME mega-church in the Maryland – DC area that is attended by Montgomery County CM Will Jawando and his wife Michelle, and appears to use this connection to a local politician (and his wife, who…
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MoCo Origins (Part One) – The El Salvador Connection
Read more: MoCo Origins (Part One) – The El Salvador ConnectionThis is part one of an investigative series on the origins of several immigration movements, associated non-profits / NGOs and geopolitical events a world away that have shaped Montgomery County, Maryland into the community it is today. It is also a unique look back at some of the international escapades and adventures of local MoCo…
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We Don’t Build Bridges Anymore – And It is Crushing the DMV Region
Read more: We Don’t Build Bridges Anymore – And It is Crushing the DMV RegionThe District-Maryland-Virginia (DMV) region suffers from a paralysis. Bridge-building paralysis, specifically. In the year 2023, the region’s top traffic bottlenecks stem from a lack of bridges and options to cross water. Don’t let any local politician fool you. The issue is no new bridges. Getting across a river is like crossing a gauntlet for millions…
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Claw back the Improperly Issued Income Tax Offset Credits (ITOC)
Read more: Claw back the Improperly Issued Income Tax Offset Credits (ITOC)The Montgomery County Council invited submissions of testimony related to the FY24 Budget on April 13, 2023. One resident, Louis Wilen, submitted testimony and supporting documents that make a strong case for the County to recover over $100 million in improperly issued Income Tax Offset Credits (ITOC). Mr. Wilen is no stranger to identifying fiscal…
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Who Got the Money?
Read more: Who Got the Money?In an effort to have budget and spending transparency, the County publishes the spendingMontgomery data dashboard that compiles revenue and spending information. You can dive into the data, and even download the data for your own analysis. We jumped into the 2023 Expenditure Ledger and downloaded the data so we could run a more comprehensive…
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After years of same party rule, income inequality hasn’t improved
Read more: After years of same party rule, income inequality hasn’t improvedIn 2017, Adam Pagnucco published an article entitled, MoCo’s Mighty Seven Zip Codes. The article examined the income disparities across a county that, while having a reputation for being wealthy, is actually a county with just very concentrated wealth. The article concluded, after utilizing data from 2011-2015, that: “with the exception of its wealthiest zip…
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Montgomery County Spent Millions of “American Rescue Plan Act” Funds on Things That Had Nothing to Do with Covid Mitigation or “Resilience”
Read more: Montgomery County Spent Millions of “American Rescue Plan Act” Funds on Things That Had Nothing to Do with Covid Mitigation or “Resilience”A review of information at both Treasury.gov and MarylandTaxes.gov reveals that Montgomery County politicians spent millions of future taxpayer dollars allocated to it via the so-called ‘American Rescue Plan Act’ (ARPA) on things that had nothing to do with Covid-19 disease mitigation or ‘resilience’. The final portion of this funding (via the Federal Government’s largesse…
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Progressives use your words, but not your dictionary…
Read more: Progressives use your words, but not your dictionary…I’ve been studying the “woke” (critical social justice) movement since the Evergreen State riots in 2017. I have always identified as a classic liberal, and I still do. I am self-employed, and one could easily argue that I work in the progress business; I earn more when my clients do well, less and sometimes none…
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The Montgomery Historical Society’s “The Immigrant Experience” Online Exhibit Reveals CM Jawando Has No Ancestral Ties to the Middle Passage
Read more: The Montgomery Historical Society’s “The Immigrant Experience” Online Exhibit Reveals CM Jawando Has No Ancestral Ties to the Middle PassageA brief follow-up to earlier posts where we clearly showed Montgomery County Councilmember Will (Yemi?) Jawando has made several misleading and outright false claims in official ‘proclamations’ or government communications (e-mails from his office) concerning his familial ancestry and story and how it is intertwined with Black American slavery and overcoming government-supported segregation. The most galling of these…
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Equity Emphasis Areas Are Still Technocratic Top-Down Central Planning — And It Doesn’t Work for MoCo
Read more: Equity Emphasis Areas Are Still Technocratic Top-Down Central Planning — And It Doesn’t Work for MoCoThe Metro Washington Area’s “Council of Governments” (MWCOG or just COG) is a regional body that says on its “About Us” page / shadow box that it is: the one place in metropolitan Washington that regularly brings leaders together to develop solutions to the region’s major challenges. But has it developed solutions to the region’s major…