2008 ‘Federation Corner’ Columns

MCCF publishes a weekly column entitled the “Federation Corner” in The Montgomery Sentinel newspaper.  Below is a listing of those columns published in 2008.  To view an article, simply click on the title.

December 2008
12/25/08	All I want for Christmas [the foreclosure crisis & need to preserve affordable housing)
12/18/08	How American women saved Mount Vernon and democratized historic preservation
12/11/08	How the history of U. S. historic preservation began
12/04/08	Lawsuits filed against County Council and Planning Board
November 2008
11/27/08	Let us give thanks
11/20/08	How does MCPS measure up to other Maryland school systems?
11/13/08	President Obama, take my Superintendent, please!
11/06/08	Whatever happened to... [a listing of unresolved land use issues facing the county]
October 2008
10/30/08	Maryland’s sordid slots history about to be repeated
10/23/08	Slots study tells the truth of all that’s false about gambling
10/16/08	What they don’t want you to know about gambling addiction
10/09/08	Show us the money that slots will bring
10/02/08	Growing pains
September 2008
09/25/08	Master planning for failure
09/18/08	Weast’s ACT doesn’t hide the truth of the SAT
09/11/08	Weast losing his war against the SAT
09/04/08	The amazing story of illegal school fees
August 2008
08/28/08	Change for the better [in county land use processes]
08/21/08	AYP also means Another Year of Propaganda
08/14/08	Does Johns Hopkins understand Smart Growth?
08/07/08	How Weast blames Simpson’s Paradox for his failures
July 2008
07/31/08	What’s good for the goose... [Planning Board complains power is usurped]
07/24/08	How good is the cream of the crap served us by Chef Weast?
07/17/08	Ever stranger behavior by the Planning Staff Director
07/10/08	Bring carousel home to Clarksburg
07/03/08	How low is Home Properties willing to go?
June 2008
06/26/08	Suburban Hospital’s destructive expansion plans doomed to fail
06/19/08	As always, MCPS spins failures into successes
06/12/08	Unions dictate pension policy to County Council
06/05/08	Strange behavior at the Planning Commission
May 2008
05/29/08	Did MCPS deliberately misstate Newsweek’s high school rankings?
05/22/08	County Council unilaterally capitulates to union demands
05/15/08	Annual MCCF Awards Ceremony
05/08/08	Unions and budget crises — 1990 and 2008
05/01/08	Unions, paper tigers and toilet paper
April 2008
04/24/08	Weast the corrupter
04/17/08	Accident waiting to happen [unplatted former farm properties can’t pull building permits]
04/10/08	WSSC hits bottom using scare tactics of exploding pipes
04/03/08	Montgomery College’s dubious distinction
March 2008
03/27/08	Montgomery College and the Battle for Block 69
03/20/08	Getting to know the Real Montgomery College
03/13/08	John Q. Porter and the DIBELS debacle
03/06/08	Beware the Property Tax Assessor looking for a shortcut through your wallet
February 2008
02/28/08	Why don’t we just abolish our Board of Education?
02/21/08	What’s new in MCPS land?
02/14/08	Accurate housing data needed
02/07/08	WSSC and the Loch Ness monster
January 2008
01/31/08	Are MCPS and the Board of Education helping to corrupt U.S. education?
01/24/08	Civil rights and wrongs in Montgomery County in 2008 [re Farm Road in Sandy Spring]
01/17/08	The curious case of John Q. Porter
01/10/08	Will Sandy Spring become the next Clarksburg?
01/03/08	United Kingdom really gets global warming