The Penguin newsroom’s Guac Watch 2008 continues, with the avocado predicted to ripen by Friday. (more…)
There’s always gotta be one guy willing to shake up a perfectly good game of town-hall buzzword bingo. (more…)
County council member Marc Elrich on Wednesday announced he was pulling together a bill that would reign in residential rent increases. Ditto, said two more council members. (more…)
Emotions were all over the place inside a Rockville conference room Tuesday, as county council members picked at the scab that scored Silver Spring one concert venue but not another. (more…)
Belt tightening and higher taxes may be needed to plug a $400 million gap in the county’s 2009 operating budget, MoCo exec Ike Leggett announced Thursday. (more…)
Sure, MoCo exec Ike Legget can negotiate with anyone to get a concert venue built on Colesville Road. But new county council prez Mike Knapp won’t let Leggett forget that the council holds the purse strings. (more…)









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