Sentinel Article Index
The Montgomery County Civic Federation regularly publishes articles in The Sentinel. This section contains a reprint of those articles.
April 2008 |
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| Weast The Corruptor | April 22, 2008 |
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| An Accident Waiting to Happen | April 15, 2008 |
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| WSSC Hits Bottom Using Scare Tactics of Exploding Pipes | April 8, 2008 |
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| Montgomery College's Dubious Distinction | April 1, 2008 |
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March 2008 |
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| Montgomery College and the Battle For Block 69 | March 25, 2008 |
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| Getting to Know the Real Montgomery College | March 18, 2008 |
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| John Q. Porter and the DIBELS Debacle | March 11, 2008 |
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| Beware the Property Tax Assessor Looking For A Shortcut through Your Wallet | March 4, 2008 |
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February 2008 |
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| Why Don't We Just Abolish Our Board of Education? | February 26, 2008 |
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| What's New In MCPS Land? | February 17, 2008 |
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| Accurate Housing Data Needed | February 12, 2008 |
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| WSSC and the Loch Ness Monster | February 5, 2008 |
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January 2008 |
| Are MCPS and the BOE Helping To Corrupt U.S. Education? | January 29, 2008 |
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| Civil Rights and Wrongs in Montgomery County in 2008 | January 22, 2008 |
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| The Curious Case of John Q. Porter | January 15, 2008 |
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| Will Sandy Spring Become the Next Clarksburg? | January 8, 2008 |
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| United Kingdom Really Gets Global Warming | January 1, 2008 |
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December 2007 |
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| Getting It On Global Warming | December 25, 2007 |
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| Whose Music Hall Is It Anyway? | December 18, 2007 |
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| More To County Resident Survey Than Meets The Eye | December 11, 2007 |
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| Examine Facts Before Mouthing Off About Affordable Housing | December 4, 2007 |
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November 2007 |
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| Smog-Eating Cement And Other Miracles | November 27, 2007 |
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| MCCF On A Positive Note | November 20, 2007 |
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| Court Blesses Corrupt ICC Process | November 11, 2007 |
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| What Became of Citizen Inclusion? | November 6, 2007 |
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October 2007 |
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| Whining About The Growth Policy | October 30, 2007 |
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| A Growth Test no one can fail (or understand) | October 23, 2007 |
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| What Home Properties Won't Bring to Silver Spring | October 16, 2007 |
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| Does Home Properties Treat Montgomery County Like Home? | October 9, 2007 |
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| Governor Used-To-Be and the ICC | October 2, 2007 |
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September 2007 |
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| Brass Tacks on Growth Policy | September 24, 2007 |
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| Grasmick Repeats History and Perpetuates the Cruel Hoax | September 18, 2007 |
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| Weast and Grasmick: A Team Making Students Dumb and Dumber? | September 11, 2007 |
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| 2006-07 MCCF Environment Committee Activities Report | September 4, 2007 |
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August 2007 |
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| Parks Department Cluelessly Lurches From CICO to UIOLI | August 28, 2007 |
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| Latest Weast BS On AYP, NCLB and AP | August 21, 2007 |
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| 2006-07 MCCF Planning and Land Use (PLU) Committee Activities Report | August 14, 2007 |
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| Poorly Educated Superintendents Threaten U.S. Education | August 7, 2007 |
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July 2007 |
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| Professor Leggett Needs To Remember Laws Are Based On Facts, Not Fear | July 31, 2007 |
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| Weast and BOE Can't Have It Both Ways About School Overcapacity | July 17, 2007 |
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| Disastrous Churchill Audit Findings Underscore MCPS Failings | July 10, 2007 |
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| DPS Drops The Ball Again | July 3, 2007 |
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June 2007 |
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| Making Dollars and Sense of the Growth Policy | June 28, 2007 |
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| Time For Weast To Stop the Lying | June 21, 2007 |
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| Weast’s MCPS PR Machine Is As Relentless As It Is Deceptive | June 14, 2007 |
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| Could There Be A Principality of MNCPPC That Can Issue Its Own Stamps? | June 6, 2007 |
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May 2007 |
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| If Every School System Lies About It, Why Shouldn't MCPS? | May 24, 2007 |
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| Weast's Uneasy Truce With Special Ed Is Now War | May 24, 2007 |
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| BOE Behavior in Court Room Worse Than in Board Room | May 17, 2007 |
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| Weast Continues to Rule His Kingdom From a Distance | May 10, 2007 |
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| Time to Revisit the Growth Policy | May 3, 2007 |
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April 2007 |
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| Will ICC Right-of-Way Become Future Parkland? | April 26, 2007 |
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| Lawsuit Against ICC Tells Of Government Manipulation | April 19, 2007 |
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| Ask Not For Whom the ICC Tolls, For It Tolls for Thee | April 11, 2007 |
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| MNCPPC: An Ineffective Bureaucracy By Choice? | April 5, 2007 |
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March 2007 |
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| Clarksburg II - The Development District Mess | March 29, 2007 |
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| Jerry Weast: Rasputin, Richelieu, or Svengali to the BOE? | March 22, 2007 |
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| MEMA Hides Behind FEMA Corruption to Avoid Responsibilities | March 15, 2007 |
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| New BOE Worse Than Old BOE In Defying Community Expectations | March 8, 2007 |
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| Truth is “Outside The Scope of the ICC Project” | March 1, 2007 |
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February 2007 |
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| Recent Events Point the Way For Affordable Housing in the County | February 22, 2007 |
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| BOE and MCPS Face Their Greatest Challenge | February 15, 2007 |
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| The Time For Ike Leggett to Start CountiStat is NOW | February 8, 2007 |
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January 2007 |
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| The MCPS Budget Is Neither Simple Nor Rocket Science | January 31, 2007 |
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| Road Code Bill Presents Unique Opportunity for Cooperation | January 23, 2007 |
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| County Needs Green Road Code | January 9, 2007 |
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| MCPS Deception Undermines New BOE Reputation | January 4, 2007 |
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December 2006 |
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| Planning Board Weary of Clarksburg and Other Crises | December 28, 2006 |
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| Updating our Affordable Housing Programs | December 21, 2006 |
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| Real Plans for Slow Growth | December 14, 2006 |
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| Audits, Authority and Paying Attention | December 7, 2006 |
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November 2006 |
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| Nameless Intrigue Surrounds Rockville Library Opening | November 30, 2006 |
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| CountiStat and 311 Should Be First Order of Business For Ike Leggett | November 23, 2006 |
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| MCPS At War With Itself Over Becoming The Best | November 16, 2006 |
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| What I Saw At The Election | November 9, 2006 |
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| Insurance Fraud Is Perpetuated by FEMA and Its Insurance Industry Partners | November 2, 2006 |
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October 2006 |
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| M-NCPPC Risks Federal Lawsuit Over Failures to Enforce Forest Conservation Law | October 26, 2006 |
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| Is Montgomery County LEED or FEED on Green Buildings? | October 16, 2006 |
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| The Community Must Pay Attention to What MCPS Says and Does | October 12, 2006 |
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September 2006 |
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| Report Underreports the Underreporting of School Violence | September 25, 2006 |
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| County Leaders Eager to Scapegoat Election Officials | September 18, 2006 |
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| Planning Board Faces Great Challenge With Indian Spring Project | September 12, 2006 |
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| County Council Report Card | September 5, 2006 |
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August 2006 |
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| Abrams Erases Line Between Party and Nonpartisan Positions | August 28, 2006 |
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| Voters Forget Who Are the Real Education Decision Makers? | August 24, 2006 |
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| Be Skeptical of Santas Promising Transportation Solutions | August 17, 2006 |
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| Politicians' Empty Promises on Affordable Housing | August 10, 2006 |
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| Crown Farm is Now a Bigger Planning Failure | August 3, 2006 |
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July 2006 |
| Crown Farm Annexation Still Marked by Failure | July 27, 2006 |
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| County Council Risks Humiliation and Failure with ZTA 06-18 | July 20, 2006 |
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| Introducing the Montgomery County Civic Federation | July 13, 2006 |
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| Proper Maintenance of Lake Needwood Long Overdue | July 6, 2006 |
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June 2006 |
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| County Accelerates Pattern of Excluding Residents From the Planning Process | June 29, 2006 |
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| Failed Again - Twice! | June 22, 2006 |
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| County Council Risks Its Credibility With Refusal To Evaluate COMSAT Building | June 16, 2006 |
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| Jerry Weast: School Superintendent or Real Estate Deal Maker? | June 1, 2006 |
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May 2006 |
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| Annual Awards Banquet | May 26, 2006 |
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| Educating the Board of Education is Hard Work! | May 18, 2006 |
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| M-NCPPC Unreliable in Enforcing Forest Conservation Law | May 12, 2006 |
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| Environmental Bureaucrats Biggest Obstacle to Cleaner Water in Montgomery County | May 5, 2006 |
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April 2006 |
| Concerns about Future Development the County Must Address | April 28, 2006 |
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| Wolf at the Door? KB Home Is Coming to Montgomery County | April 21, 2006 |
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| Legitimacy of Crown Farm Annexation Is More Questionable Than Ever | April 14, 2006 |
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| Policy FAA, FAA-RA, and the Role of Citizen Task Forces | April 6, 2006 |
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March 2006 |
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| Ghost of Diggs Council Haunts Gaithersburg Annexation of Crown Farm | March 31, 2006 |
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| No Justice on Building Violations | March 23, 2006 |
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| How Much Does MCPS Waste on PR? | March 17, 2006 |
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February 2006 |
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| Planning Board Should Investigate and Enforce Site Plans | February 16, 2006 |
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| Our Misunderstood and Ignored Transportation System | February 10, 2006 |
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January 2006 |
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| Time to Stop Child Lot Abuses in the Agricultural Reserve | January 20, 2006 |
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| Clarksburg plan one of many violated by county developers | January 13, 2006 |
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