GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, Takoma Park Police chief Ronald Ricucci announced he will be leaving his position in July. According to a March 27 police press release,

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, Is it the haircut, the new shoes, the new after-shave? What makes the Takoma Park city council look so different? OH,

TALK OF TAKOMA • BY HOWARD KOHN Campaigns for student government are always unpredictable and a bit homespun, but if bookies had been handicapping the candidacy of Kay

This is a story about how a hot tub changed the face of the City Council. Tim Male was voted onto the Council on November 8 in the most

On October 19 the Takoma Voice hosted a forum for the candidates in the upcoming City Council election in Takoma Park. The forum was moderated by Eric Bond,

GRANOLAPARK — Dear Readers, Takoma Park snarled and snapped at the county. The city feels it's been kicked around enough. The latest kick is right in the tender Takoma/Langley Sector.

GRANOLAPARK — Dear Readers, Sidewalk Wars get more toxic as the Takoma Park council looks for a process to bring peace in our time - after recess. Yes, the Takoma Park

Dear Readers, Wanna fight? Join the PSCAC! Oops! too late! The council suspended it. But echoes of the infighting continue. One side says the Public Safety Citizen's Advisory Committee (PSCAC) was

Dear Readers, The council may euthanize the Public Safety Citizens Advisory Committee (PSCAC). The mayor said that by his informal count a majority of councilmembers are leaning towards dissolving

The council passed the budget amendment allowing the city manager to tap speed camera revenues to make up a good portion of the shortfall. That shortfall came

Dear Readers, Where, oh where can the city find an extra $578,000 to replace the funds cut by the state? In the road, that's where! The city manager just found

Dear Reader, The city council wants Takoma Park to be on the sharpest, pointiest angle of the environmental cutting edge, again. That's where the city fancies it was a

Your Gilbert was as nonplussed as Colleen Clay, who said "I'm not sure how this ended up on the agenda," when the discussion on "How to approach Environmental

Dear Readers, Nothing puts a crooked little smile on Your Gilbert's face like a yummy bite of irony flavored with unintended consequences. We got a good taste of it

"Perhaps it is time for a disincorporation slate to be formed for the coming election. The city's' primary reasons for founding, to provide protective services not provided for

Dear Readers, The budget lives! Like a newly emerged butterfly it floats and flits about the garden, as the council stalks it with net and pin. As fully formed

Dear Readers, The city council worked their way through a long list of proposed budget adjustments at their May 7th meeting. They discussed each, then voted them up or

Dear Readers, They called it "Reconciliation" but it looked more like "Divergence." The goal of that Thursday April 30 city council agenda item was to come up with a consensus