https://www.baltimoresun.com/2026/03/09/maryland-lawmakers-weigh-online-casino-gaming-but-ask-how-much-is-too-much/

"“We can’t be making money for the state off the backs of addiction,” Innis said in an interview.

Last year, Del. Julie Palakovich Carr, a #MontgomeryCounty Democrat, sponsored a consumer protection bill that would have banned credit card use on mobile sportsbooks and raised the minimum age to 21 for fantasy games."

IMO if you want money for education, raise taxes on the rich. Gambling expansion at this point is a tax on the poor and the addicted

#gambling #maryland

Live: Houston-area primary election results

`HOUSTON – Voters went to the polls on Tuesday for the Republican and Democratic primaries to decide the…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #Election #FortBendCounty #GalvestonCounty #Headlines #Houston #LibertyCounty #montgomerycounty #Politics #TopStories #Tx #Us
https://www.newsbeep.com/417252/

https://www.thebanner.com/education/k-12-schools/montgomery-county-high-school-books-curriculum-YA6OLARKZRBJLBBU5RGZXMKHIQ/?bis=article-action-link

[gift link] Students in #MontgomeryCounty #Maryland are increasingly not reading for fun, with "the influence of #socialmedia and #AI , #censorship threats, an emphasis on #standardizedtesting and digital lesson plans built off text excerpts" cited as reasons. Comments from teacher Stelzner raise questions about #tracking , given spread of student ability in classes.

I agree with the conclusion, that #reading #literature is very important for building empathy.

Books are fading from kids’ lives. Parents want schools to do more.

Parents across Maryland, and the country, are questioning whether students are reading enough books — classics or otherwise — in English classes.

The Banner

non-beer and non-wine alcoholic products. A county monopoly using what feels like Prohibition-era regulations.

#MontgomeryCounty #alcohol #Prohibition #monopoly

Montgomery County food safety inspections found a cat in the dining area of a restaurant

Here are the violations reported in food safety inspection reports from Montgomery County conducted the week …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Dining #foodsafetyinspections #health #localnews #montgomerycounty #news #pennsylvania #restaurantsfoodanddrink #thingstodo #topstoriesmer
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2529649/montgomery-county-food-safety-inspections-found-a-cat-in-the-dining-area-of-a-restaurant/

Ok #MontgomeryCounty #PA how much snow do you think we're getting? I stuck the ruler in the back deck and we're nearly up to 4" already...

#Pennsylvania #Snowpocalypse

@bolts #MontgomeryCounty #Maryland also has a public development corporation. It has a mandate to sustain its own costs through the county Housing Production Fund, which is supposed to stay level from year to year through repayments on the loans it makes, but is supposed to be non-profit. I think there are also other cities in the #USA that have been pursuing this.

In the constructed #Housing market-rate tenants cross subsidize their below-market neighbors.

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/07/nx-s1-5119633/housing-crisis-solution-public-housing-mixed-income-maryland

https://medium.com/@michaelmckee497/montgomery-county-republicans-should-drive-towards-proportional-representation-d95061ecbe77

I have written another long, meandering #blog post, to join two I've written on #ApprovalVoting and #Zoning in #MontgomeryCounty #Maryland . What's this one on, you ask?

The #MoCo #Republicans have an initiative in the works that is basically guaranteed to fail because it would just blatantly give them power. It's also maybe illegal.

However, them having started this discussion offers us a wonderful opportunity to discuss a better system: #ProportionalRepresentation !

Montgomery County Republicans Should Drive Towards Proportional Representation

One party rule is bad. Cartel politics is worse.

Medium

https://ggwash.org/view/102458/andrew-friedson-for-montgomery-county-executive

"Which Will Jawando will voters actually get? The one who understood how modern-day #landuse could address a legacy of discrimination? Or the one who points fingers and sides with affluent neighbors who don’t want different kinds of people living near them? ... By not responding to the questionnaire as the other candidates took time to do, #Jawando is telling #MontgomeryCounty voters they don’t need to know what he thinks.."

#Maryland #MoCo #politics #zoning #friedson