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A Nextdoor chain reading “told Marc Elrich that there are many empty office buildings along Research Blvd and that whole area, during a County meeting about 2 years ago. He just stared at me. I give up. All I want is for this County to STOP taking down wooded areas and old growth tree areas. They have taken down nearly all of these areas. People wanted uncontrolled immigration and you have to figure that more people means more development. This is a BASIC environmental science concept (carrying capacity and finite resources) and NOT a political statement.” A reply reading “Joan this property has 30 old growth trees and they are slated to be cut down” A reply to *that* reading Money, money mooooney! Power, power, poooower. Show me the money and I will get hungry. Bonne chanceux!”

My “carrying capacity and finite resources and NOT a political statement” t-shirt is prompting a lot of questions answered by my “carrying capacity and finite resources and NOT a political statement” t-shirt

it’s so good! it really helped me wrap my head around the new routes

How riders are adjusting to D.C.'s new bus network One month in, riders are still adjusting to the massive Metrobus overhaul.

absolutely stoked to see my colleague @kaihall10.bsky.social quoted in @51st.news about the "transportation time tax" and how we should think about the ways transit does or doesn't work for people 51st.news/metrobus-dc-...

it is a sign of maturity and strength to be able to admit that you were wrong and to let it go. some people never learn that, which is unfortunate

Elrich continues crusade against zoning change designed to increase workforce housing A recent zoning change increases the amount and types of housing allowed in certain zones along Montgomery County’s transit corridors.

marc elrich continues to waste our tax dollars by trying to block people from moving to montgomery county. you are free to leave at any time, my guy bethesdamagazine.com/2025/08/07/e...

I think he's right, office conversions to residential can be good but downtowns benefit from the foot traffic that comes from people working there during the day

How rethinking stairwells could boost housing in Montgomery County Opinion: Rethinking stairwells could boost Montgomery County’s housing supply. The chair of the county’s planning board explains how.

a year ago we worked with @vaughnstewart.bsky.social and @jwaldstreicher.bsky.social to write a bill—now state law—that will help make Maryland homes more affordable. now MoCo officials are embracing single-stair building reforms, and you can read more @ggwash.org: ggwash.org/view/100397/...

Did Silver Spring build enough housing to stay affordable? Sort of. In 2013, I looked at rents in Silver Spring to see if building tons of new homes could help keep our community affordable. Five years and about 1,700 new apartments later, did it work? Sort of.

this is six years old now but I found that building thousands of new homes helped stave off rent increases in silver spring, with some exceptions. we have the technology, so on and so forth ggwash.org/view/71732/d...

How an NYC Suburb Is Actually Managing to Bring Rents Down New Rochelle embraces development and makes it easy to build, leading to thousands of new apartments.

new rochelle reminds me a lot of silver spring (diverse, middle-class, just outside a major city) and by making it easier to build lots of new homes, it's able to keep rents down *and* retain that character–
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

wtf are they talking about? 6pm dinner is perfectly normal. for me sometimes that's even a little late, because I am what they call an Old Soul

we can always use more bathroom content and I am grateful

that said, ofc you're going to brush off firefighters making racist comments when your worldview is "people won't live here if someone can build apartments near them" bsky.app/profile/just...

and the racist comment post by the firefighter did not mark the department’s first experience with personnel issues. He then quoted former county police chief J. Thomas Manger, who recently retired as head of the U.S. Capitol Police. “He would say, ‘My department is made up of human beings and among those human beings sometimes are people who don’t always do the right thing,’ ” Elrich said. “And that’s just the nature of every workplace in the county, probably — that not everybody does everything exactly the way they should.”

who needs republicans when you have democrats like marc elrich bethesdamagazine.com/2025/08/01/m...

I love her

I support a shared vision of prosperity that does not revolve around $1000/month car notes for dangerous vehicles that are used primarily for grocery runs and school drop offs

as someone whose neighborhood could be described as “big ass truck abundance” I can confidently say that no, this is not what democrats should promote

Title: Gender Census 2025. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!

survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

I’m so sorry, Ben. He was a good boy and knew he was loved 💔

I wrote in May that eventually I’ll forgive the driver and every so often I check in with myself: am I ready? in a week MCDOT will say if they’ll put a stop sign and crosswalk at the intersection where we got hit. maybe then I’ll be ready

it’s been almost 3 months since a driver hit my dog and I and the worst part (hard to pick just one, but) is I still see the driver who hit us, just now in fact, out here living his life like nothing happened

Baskin-Robbins twice in one week, c'mon you can do better mocoshow.com/2025/08/01/f...

dads everywhere know the pain of spending over a year fighting to keep the go-kart track you built in your yard for your son and wondering: what if he decides he's over go-karts www.baltimoresun.com/2025/07/30/h...

I don't have a lot to say about the RFK Stadium deal other than that it's bad, so instead this week it's Football Takes. as always it's a great time to root for the Iggles

useful data from Seattle that shows what happens when you open up single-family zones and make it possible to build more, and more lower-cost homes

a question everyone is asking: does the former president eat gelato!? I looked at 151 stock photos and simply cannot tell www.gettyimages.com/photos/joe-b...

I have! it looks really nice, and to think people spent so much time grumbling about it

I do enjoy making a lil day out of going to Sarah's on River Road, visiting the fancy plant store, going to an open house for some $2 million thing that backs to the beltway, you know the drill

that's right, which makes it all the more ironic! I worked for the third owners of Gifford's, who bought the name from the Hunt family, who bought it from the Giffords after the founder's son ran off in the mid-1980s. have you read the grandson's memoir? it is wild

while in college at UMD I worked at onetime MoCo institution Gifford's Ice Cream, all of whose locations were on the west side (Chevy Chase, Bethesda, Rockville etc). I heard they were opening "in College Park" so I asked the owner where and he said "oh, in Hyattsville" 🤦‍♀️

Former President Joe Biden Stops by MoCo Ice Cream Shop - The MoCo Show On Monday, former President Joe Biden visited the Baskin Robbins at 10592B Metropolitan Avenue in Kensington. Video clips of a parts of his visit can be seen below. Biden, known […]

one consequence of MoCo ice cream chains (Sarah's, Carmen's, etc) generally refusing to open east of Rock Creek Park: Joe Biden has to go to Baskin-Robbins instead mocoshow.com/2025/07/30/f...