Council vote Tuesday, Nov. 10: keep or close the Dickerson incinerator?

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The Montgomery County Council is scheduled to vote at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, on whether the county should keep the Dickerson Resource Recovery Facility, its trash incinerator, open for the long term or close it and send the county’s trash by truck to landfills outside the county. The CouncilContinue Reading

Montgomery proposes $4.6 million from reserves for health and human services

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The Montgomery County Council will take public testimony Tuesday, Nov. 10, on eight requests from County Executive Marc Elrich to spend a combined $4,567,760 from the county’s General Fund Undesignated Reserves, most of it on health and human services. The largest, $1.2 million, would keep residential and personal support servicesContinue Reading

Exclusive election night interview with Olympic canoeist Davey Hearn

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Davey Hearn, an Olympic canoeist from Bethesda, was at an election-night event on Tuesday, Nov. 3, about a month after a judge dismissed the Reflecting Pool vandalism charge against him with prejudice. Moderately MOCO talked with Hearn on election night. The interview is also on Facebook and Instagram. Interview byContinue Reading