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, 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 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, 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, The Residency Requirement and Advise and Consent Role (RRAC) controversy continues to wreak havoc and wreck relations as it wrenches attention from

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, "MOU" is not a barn-yard noise, it's Memorandum Of Understanding. In other words, "an agreement." As in an agreement between the

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, With the smallest majority possible the Takoma Park city council voted to move two controversial proposals closer to becoming city law.

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, No geekness! The new Takoma Park city council had no geeky aprez-vacation reports. In fact, only a

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, It's time to resurrect The RAT! The RAT is an award for worst media coverage of Takoma Park. It was first proposed in

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, "What have I DONE?" That's what Jarrett Smith, officially the Takoma Park Ward 5 councilmember-elect, is probably thinking. What he did was win

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Last Monday's Takoma Park city council meeting was all bad news. Not only did most of the council succumb to gold-fever,

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, Takoma Park's progressive activists are now bullying the city council to take an official stand for peace and freedom. City resident and

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, Budget work sessions! That's what it's all about now. One. Department. At. A. Time. Each Takoma Park city department presents a yearly

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, Last week (April 2) councilmember Seth Grimes dramatically exclaimed that the council was in violation of it's own laws. They are