GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, The council made the "historic" vote to enfranchise 16 - 17 year old residents. Blah, blah, blah. Your Gilbert vowed not to waste any

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, It's dark down here. And quiet. But NOT QUIET ENOUGH. News about Takoma Park city budget talks is STILL seeping through our concrete budget-proof

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, We write today's post from the Granolapark budget-proof bunker's deepest chamber. Yes, Dear Readers, it is that unspeakable time of year again when the

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, This is not a grassroots movement, this is special-interest legislation. Takoma Park-based Fairvote nonprofit is using the city government to promote its

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, No, really, it's for SAFETY! Not for revenue, no, no, not that! That's what the city council says over and over and over again.

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, So, what the hell have they been doing for 4 months? Pesticide ban supporters and the city have had since November, 2012 to revise

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, Giving 16 -17 year olds the vote is just one of a proposed set of voting reforms before the Takoma Park city council. Two

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, Kay Daniels-Cohen was back - by phone. The Ward 3 councilmember was hospitalized a couple of weeks ago for an emergency hip

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT After 3 years the city and the state may have a deal on Route 410! The process has been like crawling naked through a raspberry

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Nasty stuff is getting into Maple Avenue's watershed, Takoma Park's storm drains, and into Sligo Creek and it's tributaries. One of the hot spots

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, Drivers are facing years of detours and traffic disruptions in Takoma Park. Two city bridges will be closed or partially closed for repair work,

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, The Takoma Park city council wants to get more residents into the voting booth. Voter turnout has always been embarrassingly low - 18%

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, Redistricting is not fun. A member of the now-disbanded redistricting committee came to the microphone to accuse the council of superseding the committee's

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, Did you know the city has a secret agent spying on the state legislature? Slight exaggeration. She's the city's official lobbyist. Michele

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, What the heck happened last year? There was SO MUCH going on in some ways. Yet, so little progress was made

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, Nobody said "Mister Mayor, TAKE DOWN THIS SIGN!" Which is a shame, because it would have made a great title for

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, Hey, remember your money? That tax money the county returned to you? Yeah, that tax-duplication rebate that went to Takoma Park six

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, "I'm confused" was the most repeated phrase of the evening, uttered by almost every Takoma Park councilmember. It was an excruciating two

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, The Takoma Park city council is not just working on the controversial city charter amendment, though that's what's been getting all