Maryland is examining whether counties and municipalities should be allowed to impose additional taxes on restaurant meals and beverages. A new state presentation outlines the potential revenue, while restaurant, tourism, and hospitality organizations have raised objections to the proposal. Maryland is taking another look at whether local governments should beContinue Reading
Responding to a Parents’ Coalition post on our Facebook page, MCPS says it cut the 750 Progress Way warehouse lease from ten years to two. Its full statement, plus what the lease itself says.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
Sixty percent of Maryland likely voters want to open the state’s primaries, including 74 percent of unaffiliated voters and 71 percent of voters under 35. Republicans are the only group opposed.Continue Reading
The new UMBC Poll shows Wes Moore beating Dan Cox 67 percent to 13 percent among likely voters in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties, double his statewide margin. Three in four local voters plan to vote by mail or during early voting.Continue Reading
Rockville’s Human Rights Commission has established a Service Dog Advocacy Task Force, according to City Councilmember Adam Van Grack, who says it appears to be the first local-government task force of its kind in Maryland.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
The Supreme Court of Maryland kept the congressional redistricting amendment on the November ballot but ordered its summary rewritten, partially reversing two circuit courts that had removed it.Continue Reading
The Red Line shutdown between North Bethesda and Friendship Heights ends this weekend, and the temporary bus lanes that carried its replacement shuttles down Rockville Pike and Wisconsin Avenue start coming out the same day the trains come back. The Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration said Thursday itContinue Reading
Maryland’s Office of People’s Counsel published a guide to BGE’s request to raise residential electric distribution rates about 17 percent. Most of Montgomery County is on Pepco, but BGE serves part of the county.Continue Reading