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July 23, 2024 The Forward Party is a relatively new party focused on election reform aspects as well as improving the electoral system across the country and focused on values and principles and individuals (Learn more about the national Forward Party here). Last week, on July 17, the Maryland ForwardContinue Reading

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July 13, 2024 High school students Evan Kim and Alex Desantis-Baugh from the Bullis School founded a political blog called Politics Explained. With a mission to provide youth with a resource to form their own opinions, this blog is centered around non-partisan weekly updates solely on US politics. The blogsContinue Reading

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July 13, 2024 Following the assassination attempt today on former President Donald Trump, many local politicians and political groups posted responses on X / Twitter. This article will show some of those responses and we will update with more as we find them. State Government The MoCo Show first reportedContinue Reading

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July 12, 2024 Introduced today, the new MOCO News Aggregator page will automatically be updated hourly with all of the most recent posts from a variety of local Montgomery County sources. Contact us to request a site be added or removed from the aggregator. Advertisement Advertisement You can find theContinue Reading

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May 20, 2024 – by Avniel Serkin-Ahmed (Founder of the Facebook group “All About DMV Politics”) An analysis of what data tells us about the Maryland Primary Election results We all have seen who won and lost in the 2024 Maryland Primary election but what does the voting data andContinue Reading

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April 8th, 2024 – This testimony was given to the County Council on the FY2025 operating budget Hello my name is Jason Makstein and I run the blog Moderately MOCO but today I am testifying as a community advocate about various items in the operating budgets. My focus will beContinue Reading

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February 25, 2024 Background and Source Data Public school enrollment numbers by Maryland county and by school level was determined for the school years: 2019-2020 was the last pre-pandemic school year, 2023-2024 is the current school year. School levels are: Data sources are official enrollment from the State of Maryland.Continue Reading

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February 20, 2024 On February 16, 2024 County Executive Marc Elrich submitted the following comments about the Takoma Park Minor Master Plan. We will show a summarization of the main parts first, followed by the County Department recommendations and then a link to the full PDF. Advertisement Advertisement Overall CommentsContinue Reading

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Updated and edited January 21, 2024. Posted January 16, 2024. Background We’ve been working on this report on hate and bias incidents in Montgomery County Maryland for the last few years. This report is based on data from July 2022 through October 31, 2023. It is important to note thatContinue Reading

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January 14th, 2024. This article summary is based on this X/Twitter thread by Esther Wells (used with permission). Full video: 1/12 Montgomery County House Delegation Meeting (youtube.com) Starting Now: 1/12 Montgomery County House Delegation Meeting. Weekly cadence of Fridays at 9am to keep up with what’s going on. CE ElrichContinue Reading