Given the phenomenon of Tim Kaine — which continues to fulfill expectations — and Democrats’ lack of any coherent strategy on gay issues (other than running in the other direction), I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that the front-runner for the Maryland Democrat’s gubernatorial nomination can’t give a straight answer on a proposed constitutional amendment […]
I haven’t blogged much about local issues since moving out of the district, but yesterday the hubby had an appointment in the city and I rode in with him. So instead of my usual routine of listening to the iPod from the door of the house to the door of the office, I ended up […]
He must have sensed that something was coming. I got too busy to post about it yesterday, but Maryland’s Republican governor has tried to make good on his promise to present his own bill after he vetoed gay rights bills that would have given some rights and protections to same sex couples. Since the Equality […]
Looks like I’m gonna be a lobbyist for a day. Just a couple of nights ago I went to a local Equality Maryland meeting about their upcoming lobby day in February. The guy leading the meeting happened to be one of the plaintiff’s in a court case challenging Maryland’s anti-gay marriage law, and he […]
I hope it’s not too late to get in on the annual Festivus Airing of Grievances. Because I have one that’s been stewing since the eve of the holiday. Mark has a good list going, so I thought I’d chime in.
It had been a long day already, following a long night during which […]
I’ve written before about the building moratorium in Chevy Chase, MD, where our new home happens to be under construction (and not affected by the moratorium). Well, since then it’s become a national story. We missed the Sixty Minutes story last Sunday, since it’s the kind of stuff we don’t watch until Parker goes to […]
No sooner do we settle our family in Maryland than we find that we have a battle going no in our back yard. Namely, the wingnuts — this time in the form of Parents and Friends of Ex-gays (PFOX) and a related organization called Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum (CRC) are trying to take […]
A while back I posted about the building moratorium in Chevy Chase, MD, and the issue of “mansionization.” Well, fortunately the moratorium didn’t affect the building of our house, because we were already well into construction when the moratorium passed, but it’s still a hotly debated issue. In some neighborhoods (not ours) people are getting […]
I don’t blog much about local news, but given the basic points of the progressive blog report, perhaps I’d better start. I wrote earlier about the building moratorium under consideration in Chevy Chase, MD — a suburb just outside D.C. — so the city council and others could figure out how to deal with the […]
And the nails, and the saw, and those two-by-fours. Pretty much hold everything. That’s the message that some folks building new homes or expanding existing homes in Chevy Chase, MD are getting from their neighbors.
I realize that I don’t blog much about local issues, but there are some issues in the metro-D.C. area that […]