Can you spare a nickel? How about a dime? How about three? In Austin, Texas recently for a trip, I was in need of a plastic bag to lug some small items back to the Air BnB from the local H-E-B grocery. 30-cents, I was told by the clerk. Yep,Continue Reading
MCPS Ethics Policy You can view the official MCPS and MCPS BOE Ethics Policy here. After reading the ethics policy and hearing that Joftus has said he will recuse himself from these decisions regarding KID Museum, it became clear to that he is following ethics guidelines by the rules. JoftusContinue Reading
Introduction If you haven’t seen, after the recount in the Democratic Primary County Executive race, Marc Elrich won by 32 votes. Local map maker twitter user JamesN has given us permission to share his maps showing precinct voting breakdown for several of the Democratic primary races. You can also subscribeContinue Reading
Editor Note: A recent decision about the charter amendment process has reignited conversation about the last time around. Ballot Question C Added On August 4th 2020 the County Council introduced and adopted a resolution for a ballot question adding two seats to the county council. This question was placed onContinue Reading
What is a Cropduster? I had no idea Olney was getting a semi-pro baseball team this summer until a neighbor and fellow parent of young children brought it up. “Did you hear about this new Olney semi-pro team. The Cropdusters?” Nope. I confessed I had not. What is a Cropduster? Continue Reading
Finding The Museum Drive into the quaint village of Sandy Spring, Maryland from points west and you’ll see a fairly nondescript sign for a “Slave Museum” telling you to turn northwest on Brooke Rd. Follow this road through some twists and turns and on your left, the “Sandy Spring SlaveContinue Reading
Because of the depth of this data, there will be a Part 3 with more analysis. You can see Part 1 Here which was focused on demographics. Note: This Data was obtained by a MPIA request. It is dated December 8 and schools have been working to get responses fromContinue Reading
This is analysis of the responses data that MCPS presented to the BOE in December 2020 (Link to slides at bottom) It is Part 1 of the analysis as the Part 2 will be analysis of the full school by school breakdown from an MPIA request. Parent Survey Demographics ofContinue Reading
Full notes with table of contents and links: We’re using our reach to help locally owned small businesses. If you’re looking for pet sitting services, check out Happy Paws.Continue Reading
PDF of the notes. This is the version that also has links. Click on the question in the Table of Contents and it will take you there. Link to full video here:Continue Reading