The Good Laura

Also going to highlight that they're set to break ground on a 44 acre housing development in Damascus as well. MoCo learned nothing from the Clarksburg mess.

Will they still do farm tours when it's all solar farms? Still waiting for the green energy people pushing solar farms to admit the environmental harms of such initiatives. Chemical runoff, heavy metal contamination, microbial disruption in the soil, food chain disruptions.

Narrator: Brink Road wouldn't be taking the beating it is had they built M83 (as promised) to support the Clarksburg population explosion.

So lemme get this straight... you won't expand or renovate our schools, you won't increase roadways or bus routes, but you want to build MORE apartments in Damascus?!

TL/DR: more people in MoCo are homeless post-rent control. And we are doing worse than our neighbors. Our leaders are dumb and continually hurt those who they claim to help.

This afternoon, I canvassed over two hundred doors in the Upper County areas of Montgomery County. I intentionally made my first stop in Damascus, Maryland, a place I feel a deep connection to. I remember playing against the swarming hornets in Damascus during Little League…

Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) has long been an important treatment option for women to alleviate symptoms of menopause, among other potential health benefits. Over the last two decades, however, HRT has been surrounded by confusing narratives about potential risks. We're…

The paradox of virtue signaling is that the harder you try to prove how good you are, the more insincere you appear. Genuine goodness speaks and acts for itself.

United States Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer and Petty Officer Scott Ruskin, directly saved an astonishing 165 victims in the devastating flooding in central Texas. This was the first rescue mission of his career and he was the only triage coordinator at the scene. Scott Ruskin is…

📢Researchers: Teachers union endorsements of school board candidates is single largest predictor of winning. Voters BELIEVE endorsements are to improve academic outcomes. ➡️But NOPE. Unions’ self-interestedly pick to maximize pay, not academics. 1/4

Stop endorsing Jawando! Your historical candidates that are now in office are the reason why our State & County is such a mess. From Governor Moore to CE Elrich, stop it! Look at incumbents’ track records, stop with the identity politics & free free free. We are not better off…

Funny how all of a sudden leaders are disappointed about the MCPS decision but none of them were disappointed that our reading and math proficiency rates plummeted to less than 50%.

/5 In addition to a six-figure payout, MCPS has: ➡️ Required the “Staff Pride” group to unblock Mandel ➡️ Amended its social media policy to prohibit viewpoint discrimination ➡️ Required staff to certify compliance with the new rules

First: A hiring spree — Gov. Moore hired 5,000 new state employees. Second: He busted the budget, raised taxes/fees, but wants to be President.

How hot is it? I left my lunchbox in the car yesterday afternoon and the top blew off my can of seltzer...

Think it would behoove all of us on all sides of these various foreign policy disputes to occasionally wait to see how things actually unfold.

Hard NO on Jawando for County Executive!

I'm extremely upset that there hasn't been a very serious re-evaluation of the nature of emergency orders in the wake of Covid This should be a bipartisan issue. We should not give any executive unfettered "emergency" power for any period of time longer than 2 weeks.

This "No Kings" attitude would have been welcome when our government was deciding who was "essential", and who was allowed to leave their houses, go to work, attend worship services, visit family members, etc.