Choosing Insanity - Update
For those following the Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance (APFO) review and legislation, CB61-2017, there are many amendments being...
Choosing Insanity
We all know our County’s slogan of “Choose Civility”, but lately I have been thinking of that age old “definition” of insanity and...
Summer of Discontent
It's July, and things are heating up in HoCo. It's a busy Council month before their August recess. There's a jammed packed schedule at...
All the People, All the Time....
That saying, “you can’t please all the people all the time”, comes to mind lately. For too long, we felt that former Superintendent Foose...
Hope Springs Eternal - Guest Blog
Intro: Lisa Markovitz This blog post is a Guest Blog from Susan Garber's blog "How Come", and we repeat it here because the subject is...
This Duck Isn't Quacking
So we are all familiar with taxes. Has anyone ever met a voluntary tax? Anyone? Ever? I sure haven’t, and yet, this is the reasoning that...
Mutiny in the County
Can we get this done already? Remember when practically the entire County was in unison deciding to get a new Board of Education?...
Howard County's own custody battle
It reads like an emotional divorce complaint. She doesn’t like me, and says nasty things. This other person said she said really bad...
Planning for Hopefulness
A great sense of hope was felt a few weeks ago, as the new Board of Education was installed. The whole room could feel the happiness. It...
"Substantive" Argument
Many are aware of legislation over the past few months regarding Downtown Columbia development and the TIF proposed for Howard Hughes....