The Montgomery County Council’s Government Operations and Fiscal Policy (GO) Committee voted 3-0 Thursday, Oct. 29, to recommend three property tax credit bills to the full Council, after a Department of Finance official gave the panel cost estimates higher than the figure in one bill’s written fiscal note. In aContinue Reading
The Montgomery County Council will introduce two resolutions on Tuesday, Oct. 27, that take opposite positions on the Resource Recovery Facility, the county’s trash incinerator in Dickerson. Option 1 supports keeping the incinerator open for the long term. Option 2 supports closing it and disposing of the county’s trash atContinue Reading
The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a June 2026 federal court decision that vacated a U.S. Department of Education rule on Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced October 23. The rule would have let the administration strip PSLF eligibility from employees ofContinue Reading
The Montgomery County Board of Education amended its lease for a Gaithersburg warehouse on Aug. 12, 2026, cutting the initial term from 10 years to two, through June 30, 2028, according to a superintendent’s memo posted for the Board’s Oct. 22 business meeting. On Thursday, the Board approved a secondContinue Reading
Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown joined a coalition of attorneys general urging Congress to pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act II.Continue Reading
Principal Scott Smith is on leave and assistant principal Danielle Abdelsalam is acting in his place, according to an October 14 letter from MCPS to Northwest families.Continue Reading
About 63 percent of the roughly 1,000 children in Montgomery County’s Head Start program come from multilingual households. A federal proposal would impose an English-only mandate, and the comment period has already closed.Continue Reading
Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown joined 20 other attorneys general in a comment letter opposing a DHS rule that refers asylum applications to immigration court without an interview.Continue Reading
Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown joined a coalition of 21 states in filing two federal lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s demand for a database containing sensitive personal information of millions of commercial driver’s license holders. The administration threatened to withhold more than $10 million in federal funding from the AmericanContinue Reading
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