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POLITICS (see all POLITICS blogs) On Segregation, it’s the County Council and … • NEWS – HIRUY HADGU 7 HOURS AGO
Approximately one week before the Howard County Superintendent would present his much-anticipated redistricting proposal to…
CB42 School Surcharge Fees | Testify or Send E… • NEWS – HIRUY HADGU 5:18 PM ON SUN SEP 15 2019
Dear Howard County Resident and Taxpayer:We are almost there. The County Council will hear testimony on CB42. The bill rais…
Time to circle the wagons. (again) • HOCO APFO 12:00 AM ON FRI SEP 6 2019
Time to circle the wagons. (again) Early this week the PTA Council delegates for 74 schools in Howard County voted str…
Howard County Council Submits Legislation To A… • HOCO APFO 12:00 AM ON MON AUG 26 2019
Howard County Council Submits Legislation To Adjust School Surcharge Fees Adequate Public Facilities Ordinances to accommod…
How Howard County Developers and Politicians P… • NEWS – HIRUY HADGU 8:37 AM ON MON AUG 12 2019
“[N]ew residential development not only “pays its own way”, it also subsidizes existing residential units in the Coun…
Center Maryland, MBIA and Howard County Democr… • NEWS – HIRUY HADGU 3:42 PM ON FRI AUG 9 2019
In 2004 the MBIA funded a study conducted by Anirba… Howard County Council Legislative Record Track… • NEWS – HIRUY HADGU 11:29 AM ON FRI AUG 2 2019
The County Council is in recess for the month of August. Before it left for recess, the County Council voted on a whole hos…
• HOCO APFO 12:00 AM ON FRI AUG 2 2019
Are you a lobbyist?Chances are, you are not a registered lobbyist. Yet a disproportionate amount of HOCO APFO readers are i…
Denouement and Conclusion: Retiring Spartan C… • SPARTAN CONSIDERATIONS 7:03 AM ON MON JUL 8 2019
Welcome to my “empire of dirt.” After 336 posts since 2014, including some guest op-eds, I believe now is the rig…
Single-Member Districts: Why I Support Them • SPARTAN CONSIDERATIONS 4:59 PM ON SUN JUL 7 2019
Note: This is a Guest Op-Ed, penned by Richard DeShay Elliott. The opinions expressed are his own. Enjoy! S…
• SPARTAN CONSIDERATIONS 8:19 AM ON SUN JUN 30 2019
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter recently opined that Donald Trump was not legitimately elected to the office he currentl…
• HOCO APFO 12:00 AM ON FRI JUN 28 2019
Keeping the lights on…..Earlier this week the county council held it’s meeting with the school board on two of the hotte…
• HOCO APFO 12:00 AM ON MON JUN 17 2019
Right under your nose. Tonight the council will have public testimony on CR-98-2019…” Housing Allocations”, or in plain…
New Baltimore County developer fees aim to cov… • HOCO APFO 12:00 AM ON TUE JUN 11 2019
New Baltimore County developer fees aim to cover cost of schools, roads. But the revenue is likely years away. (Baltimore S…
• HOCO APFO 12:00 AM ON TUE JUN 4 2019
“Curbing overcrowding”……See – Baltimore Sun – Howard lawmakers review measure aiming to curb overcrowding in schools &n…
• HOCO APFO 12:00 AM ON MON MAY 27 2019
“Densification”In the days and weeks leading up the the first of two major floods in Ellicott City a small group of planne…
• SPARTAN CONSIDERATIONS 6:17 PM ON FRI MAY 17 2019
Who is rarin’ for some Esoterica? Which, as you know, is the title of a long-forgotten 1987 release from Def Leppar…
Howard County Council proposes amendment to in… • HOCO APFO 12:00 AM ON THU MAY 16 2019
Howard County Council proposes amendment to increase funding in school budget (Link to Baltimore Sun Article) One thi…
• SPARTAN CONSIDERATIONS 5:10 PM ON FRI APR 26 2019
Editor’s note: what follows is the First Guest Op-Ed in Spartan Considerations history…unless you count the pieces crafte…
Howard County Cancels School Redistricting???? • HOCO APFO 12:00 AM ON FRI APR 26 2019
Howard County Cancels School Redistricting???? See Article – Howard Board of Education: Bill extending development wait tim…
• MARYLANDER’S THOUGHTS 8:04 AM ON THU APR 18 2019
This is a quote from Scripture which I found many years ago which I frequently meditate upon . I am thankful that I see it’…
• MARYLANDER’S THOUGHTS 3:50 PM ON WED APR 17 2019
A Prayer of Transformation Loving Father,Here I am. I trust that you have an incredible plan for me. Transform m…
• MARYLANDER’S THOUGHTS 6:24 AM ON MON APR 15 2019
I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I…
• MARYLANDER’S THOUGHTS 4:40 PM ON SUN APR 14 2019
In the letter to the Philippians we read about how Jesus, as the Eternal Word, was equal to God and yet didn’t desire to…
• MARYLANDER’S THOUGHTS 11:59 AM ON SAT APR 13 2019
“What we are – our identity – is only truly known to God – not ourselves, not to other men. The greatest terror of…
Howard County School Surcharge Fee Enabling Le… • HOCO APFO 12:00 AM ON MON APR 8 2019
House Bill 1409 History Could it be? Is it So? A giant leap for APFO? Take a look at the link for yourself… …
Why Howard County is Facing Record Budget Defi… • NEWS – HIRUY HADGU 7:15 PM ON FRI APR 5 2019
If you do not have time to read this now, click HERE to enter your email to save the pdf version. “What we have …
State Bill 0653 moves forward another step… • HOCO APFO 12:00 AM ON TUE MAR 19 2019
State Bill 0653 moves forward another step… Source – Regional Schools Bill Moves With MACo Amendment – Maryland Ass…
Comparison of Howard County and Baltimore Coun… • HOCO APFO 12:00 AM ON TUE MAR 12 2019
Comparison of Howard County and Baltimore County Impact Fees Source – House Bill 0449 Baltimore County – Development Imp…
• SPARTAN CONSIDERATIONS 5:19 PM ON SUN MAR 10 2019
The recent attack-by-proxy on local citizen-activist Deeba Jafri is a prime example of the moral bankruptcy of what pa…
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