Friday, November 16, 2012
The site includes two young commenters from Maryland.
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Friday, November 16, 2012
A new blog that exposes racial slurs on social media about President Barack Obama's re-election could draw the attention of the U.S. Secret Service, even though most of its subjects—two of whom are from Maryland—appear to be of high school and college age. Warning: The website contains offensive content not appropriate to post on Patch. If you choose to comment on this article please stay within our Terms of Use guidelines. The website "Hello There, Racists!" which has only existed since Nov. 11, had "outed" 77 subjects by Thursday afternoon. Its creator, who has not been identified, did not respond to an electronic request for comment. The blog, which is hosted by the popular microblogging platform Tumblr, welcomes its visitors with a …
Thursday, November 8, 2012
A Dec. 31, 2012, deadline looms for Congress on a number of significant financial issues.
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- Ben Gross
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Thursday, November 8, 2012
Now that the election is over, the most prominent problem facing the U.S. government is the “fiscal cliff.” You may have heard or seen the term in recent media coverage, but what, exactly, does “fiscal cliff” mean? If Congress fails to act, on Jan. 1, 2013, a number of financial policies will either expire or initiate, including $7 trillion worth of tax increases and spending cuts over the next 10 years. Some of the agencies and programs affected include: Defense cuts, air travel safety and food inspection cuts, income tax rates, the estate tax, marriage penalty relief, child tax credit, the alternative minimum tax, a drop in Medicare reimbursements, small business tax breaks and more. How do you feel about the country potentially going …
Monday, November 5, 2012
How to have the best voter experience in Montgomery County.
The Montgomery County Board of Elections has two pieces of advice for the nearly half-million residents expected to hit the polls in tomorrow’s momentous presidential election: 1. Bring your sample ballot filled out; 2. Avoid the Election Day rush hour. Nearly 78,000 county residents took advantage of early voting and another 45,000 will be voting via absentee ballot, according to Board of Elections spokeswoman Marjorie Rohrer. But that still leaves more than 400,000 voters to flood the fewer than 250 polling sites—on average, roughly 1,600 voters per poll—between the hours of 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. Tuesday. The 2008 presidential election drew 441,796 Montgomery county residents to the polls—a 72 percent turnout—followed by a 52 percent turnout…
Thursday, November 1, 2012
More than 43,000 have voted early already in Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties.
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- Ben Gross
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Thursday, November 1, 2012
Due to the dangers of Hurricane Sandy, early voting locations were closed Monday and Tuesday -- but Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley has now extended the early voting period through Friday for the entire state. During the two days that early voting locations were open, prior to Hurricane Sandy's arrival, 43,629 voters took advantage in Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties. Montgomery County According to data from the Maryland State Board of Elections 23,509 of the 616,016 eligible people voted early on October 27 and 28. Of those voters, 16,183 were registered Democrats, 2,821 Republican, 3,753 unaffiliated and the rest split between the Green, Libertarian and “Other” parties. Females so far are outpacing their male early voter …
Friday, October 5, 2012
Local businesses help gauge the election through food and drink.
While choosing a candidate to vote for in the 2012 presidential campaign may seem daunting to some people, businesses in the area want to make sure that you are well-fed and well-caffeinated (and maybe even help predict the outcome) as you debate your selection. BGR: The Burger Joint Reviving its popular campaign from 2008, BGR began offering menu selections celebrating the candidates’ hometowns. BGR has locations in Bethesda, Potomac, Columbia and Gaithersburg. California Tortilla The popular Mexican restaurant has taken a slightly different tactic, honoring the candidates' personal lives: California Tortilla has locations in Silver Spring, Rockville, Gaithersburg, Bethesda, Olney, Annapolis and Potomac. Click here to read more about …
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Maryland is one of a handful of states nationwide offering the service.
Residents in Maryland with a valid drivers’ license or identification card can now register to vote online for the first time, Gov. Martin O’Malley announced Tuesday on Twitter. Mary Wagner, Maryland’s director of voter registration at the Maryland State Board of Elections, called the move, which was passed by the Maryland General Assembly in 2011, “fairly cutting edge.” Will you register to vote online? Or do you prefer the paper method? Tell us in the comments. Wagner said that state officials did a soft launch of the online voter registration tool on July 9 and moved it to the main state elections home page on Tuesday. Maryland is one of 13 states with online voter registration either implemented or approved by state lawmakers, …
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
In the Montgomery County Board of Education primary, Phil Kauffman and Morris Panner took the No. 1 and No. 2 spots respectively for the At-Large ballot; Fred Evans and Rebecca Smondrowski took the top spots for District 2.
Although the Republican presidential primary bolstered Maryland into national headlines Tuesday, locally, Montgomery County voters also narrowed the field for the Board of Education’s general election in November. The unofficial results show that Phil Kauffman and Morris Panner beat out the two other candidates on the ballot to advance to the general election for the at-large seat. Kauffman received 60.3 percent of the vote, and Panner received 17 percent of the vote. The next runner-up, Lou August, received 11.9 percent of the vote. "I am really honored to have received the support I did," Panner, a resident of the Town of Somerset in Chevy Chase, told Chevy Chase Patch. "It is such an important time in our [c]ounty's history and a …
In the Montgomery County Board of Education primary, Morris Panner took the No. 2 spot for the At-Large ballot; Fred Evans and Rebecca Smondrowski took the top spots for District 2.
Although the Republican presidential primary bolstered Maryland into national headlines Tuesday, locally Montgomery County voters also narrowed the field for the Board of Education’s general election in November. The unofficial results show that Phil Kauffman and Morris Panner beat out the two other candidates on the ballot to advance to the general election for the at-large seat. Kauffman received 60.3 percent of the vote, and Panner received 17 percent of the vote. The next runner-up, Lou August, received 11.9 percent of the vote. "I am really honored to have received the support I did," Panner, a resident of the Town of Somerset in Chevy Chase, told Chevy Chase Patch. "It is such an important time in our [c]ounty's history and a …
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Five candidates are vying for four seats in this Saturday's election.
An election that could continue to significantly change the face of the seven-member Chevy Chase Village Board of Managers will take place Saturday, according to the Village Elections Committee. Five candidates will vie for four seats in the election. The candidates include three incumbents—David L. Winstead, Patricia (Pat) Baptiste and Gail S. Feldman—and two challengers—Richard Ruda and Gary Crockett. Board members serve two-year terms. Polls are open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Village Hall on Saturday, May 7. The Saturday voting follows a race last spring where three newcomers ousted three incumbents and eventually changed the make-up of the appointed board offices. Residents questioned the lack of transparency of that appointment …
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
No surprises as incumbents and Democrats dominate congressional and statewide races
For many Maryland political observers one of the unsurprising early returns on Election Night was Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski delivering a victory speech in Baltimore. Mikulski's victory was the first of many victories for incumbent Democrats in a state that was largely immune from the anti-incumbent, anti-Democrat or pro-tea party mood that pervaded elections around the nation. While Republicans mounted strong and, in many cases, victorious challenges in other states, the opposition was less organized in Maryland, said Gail Ewing, a Democratic former Montgomery County Councilwoman from Potomac. "It's not an organized, mobilized, get-out-the-vote, hit 'em hard effort [in Maryland]," Ewing said. Republicans—tea partiers or not—have not …
Corbin Dallas Multipass
4:43 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012
"Just like the governor's idiocy. A few commuters got to keep their jobs while many thousands more lost the opportunity. Sheesh. Talk about ingrained stupidity." What? The jobs are moved from LA and weren't available here. How did commuters keep jobs that didn't exist? more ›