In: BOE, CEOs, Community Feedback, Construction, County Council, COVID-19, Development, Education & Culture, Enrollment, Esther Wells Tweets, Government, Incident Response, Live Stream, Local Government, MCPS, Mental health, Montgomery College, Public Safety, Restorative Justice, School, Superintendent, Taxes, Youth Sports

On Tuesday 5/2/2023, there was a virtual forum hosted by MCPS and featuring Dr. McKnight, Councilmember Jawando, Dr. Williams and BOE member Silvestre. Esther Wells live tweeted the meeting and her tweets have been cataloged into the piece below with some minor edits for clarity. Q: Budgets are in, whatContinue Reading

In: BOE, CEOs, County Council, Demographics, Drugs and Alcohol, Education & Culture, Government, Incident Response, Local Government, MCPS, Policing, Public Safety, Restorative Justice, Safety, SROs

Last week the County Council staff put a very detailed (156 page) report on CEOs, SROs, and restorative justice in anticipation on the Monday 3/20 meeting with the Public Safety (PS) and Education & Culture (EC) committees. You can attend the meeting at 9:30am or watch the meeting live onContinue Reading

In: BOE, Boundary Study, County Council, County Executive, COVID-19, Drugs and Alcohol, Government, Housing, Information, Local Government, Maryland, MCPS, MCPS Enrollment, Mental health, Overcrowding, Policing, Safety, School, Taxes, Testing

Background On Wednesday 3/15, Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich released his budget which included an 8% overall increase in budget and 10% increase for MCPS. The cost to tax payers is being advertised as a “10 cents” increase but amounts to about a 10% increase in the tax rate fromContinue Reading

In: 2022 Elections, Board Of Elections, BOE, County Council, County Executive, Elections, Local Government, Maryland, MCPS, Practically Mental, Voting

Don’t forget that voting and vote collection ends today, July 19th at 8pm! Whether you agree with our picks or not, please vote local (up and down the ballot) and vote informed! Thanks to our awesome friends at the Board of Elections Social Media we have compiled a bunch ofContinue Reading

In: COVID-19, Information, Local Government, Restaurants

A vote on new restrictions / updated executive order postponed until Tuesday. At the County Council meeting now they are discussing the changes in the document here: https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council/Resources/Files/agenda/col/2020/20201105/20201105_2A-3-2B.pdf On the reasoning for looking at shutting down late night takeout, Maryam Shahzad reports on Twitter references to involving underage drinking andContinue Reading

In: Childcare, Community Feedback, Information, Local Government

After receiving feedback from parents and childcare providers from the proposed executive order that reduced child care facilities to 50% capacity The county council requested and received an updated order: Twitter post on the update from Councilmember Andrew Friedson: When asked on Twitter if there were any other changes toContinue Reading