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

The Chief is ON IT! So is the city manager. The council is now on it, and you can be on it too, Dear Reader! Chief Ronald Ricuicci told

They really should serve tea and biscuits for these annual chitchats. Every year the city's department heads sit down one at a time with the council to review

Dear Readers, The city budget is driving us to drink. And, since Happy Hour starts in a few minutes, this posting will be brief. The next time the city manager

Dear Readers, When you lose your job and can't buy food for your children or pay your rent, what is it you need most? Why, you need to feel GOOD

Dear Readers, The Takoma Park City Council made the surprise announcement that most of the councilmembers have recently acquired extraordinary powers and were forming a league of super heroes. Mayor

Dear Readers, Asking the city council for money can be tough. It certainly was for the Community Indicators Project director Bruce Baker. The Community Indicators Project's purpose is to measure

Dear Readers, The citizens committees approacheth the city council dais, and yea, they sitteth before those wise councilors, and speaketh they of proud deeds they hath performed and lo,

Dear Readers The city's speed cameras will "go live" on St. Patrick's day, says Mayor Bruce Williams. There will be a 2 week period in which people will receive

Dear Readers, So, what the heck to do about the big hole that used to be the hospital? The council and the city attorney had a game of catch and

Dear Readers, You like those speed bumps on your street, don't you? And if you don't have one, you are itching to get one, aren't you? All those other

Dear Readers, The highlight of Monday's meeting was a councilmember falling out of his chair. It happened with a "Thump!" only a few minutes into the discussion of the

Forget "Berkeley of the East," try "Sweden of the West!" That's what they will be calling Takoma Park when the city gets an urgent, primary, and preventative health care

Dear Readers, The leaf-blower bout continues! See rounds I, II, and III here. Resident activists who requested the ban last October were at the January 21 Takoma

Dear Readers, Despite the fact that the architecture's drawings for the city council chamber revisions bear a curious resemblance to the Titanic's deck plan, on Jan. 12 the council

Dear Readers, Have you ever had one of those nightmares where there is a serious conversation going on - half obscure bureaucratic jargon, half childishly simple statements - and

Dear Readers, Wrapping up all the loose ends in their final session this year, the city council banned all gas-powered devices including leaf-blowers, lawnmowers, automobiles, trucks, buses, aircraft, and

Dear Readers, Men are such liars! Especially men from the WSSC! Oh, they were SO heartfelt back in March, when the head of the Silgo Creek Parkway construction project

Dear Readers, Would you hand a loaded revolver or your car keys to a toddler? Of course not. Then why did some of you suggest an event to the