By Ryanna Quazi The Green Bank Bill A public hearing took place on the Green Bank Bill Bill (3-23) on February 14th, 2023. On March 6, 2023, there was a Transportation and Environment committee work session. Several witnesses testified at this hearing, including Thomas Deyo, the Green Bank’s CEO. Keep reading to findContinue Reading
Background Information Last year on October 12, 2022, all 5 Montgomery County Planning Board members resigned (Montgomery Planning) as requested by the County Council amid multiple scandals (The Washington Post – gfted). This was precipitated by numerous events that we covered: The original scandal involving Casey Anderson liquor use onContinue Reading
I wanted to attend the Montgomery County Council’s first Hybrid Town Hall Meeting of the new council but I am sick so decided to do my first full on live tweet instead. You can see the full set of tweets here but I’ve also taken those tweets and turned itContinue Reading
New York Post Report According to the New York Post today, a press release from police read that Naod Nega (former resident of Ashton, Maryland in Montgomery County who went to Dematha) “was initially sectioned to a local hospital on Monday, January 23rd after he was threatening students on campusContinue Reading
Background and Source Data High school enrollment in MCPS was analyzed for the years 2018 to 2022. Grade 8 enrollment was included as a baseline for grade 9 enrollment in the subsequent year. Official enrollment numbers are found in the “Official Reports of Enrollment” on the MCPS Office of SharedContinue Reading
Official Links See the Process Races to Watch David Trone trails Neil Parrott In what was expected to be a tight battle, as of election night David Trone trails Neil Parrott (via MD.gov) in the District 6 Congressional District. The Washington Post reported that this race remains undecided as ofContinue Reading
Background You may remember that on 7/22 there was a seemingly huge jump in covid positive hospital admissions On 7/29 we posted an update which included multiple responses from DHHS and other government officials. We maintained, despite resistance that there was likely either an error or it was a dataContinue Reading
Introduction (Read this first) These charts are similar and a follow up to our previous posts which can all be found here. Updates And Remaining Votes To Count So far to date there are at least 63,595 Democratic mail-ins received in Montgomery County and 58,210 mail-in votes tallied for theContinue Reading
Introduction (Read this first) These charts are similar and a follow up to our previous posts which can all be found here. Updates And Remaining Votes To Count So far to date there are at least 63,584 Democratic mail-ins received in Montgomery County and 55,286 mail-in votes tallied for theContinue Reading
Introduction (Read this first) These charts are similar and a follow up to our previous posts which can all be found here. Updates And Remaining Votes To Count So far to date there are at least 60,144 Democratic mail-ins received in Montgomery County and 48,294 mail-in votes tallied for theContinue Reading