TAKOMA ARCHIVES • DIANA KOHN The self-guided Takoma Park House and Garden Tour offers the opportunity to explore a dozen houses in the neighborhood developed by town founder

SIN OF THE MONTH • BY ABBY BARDI Many years ago, my ex-husband, who teaches philosophy, often performed a useful mental exercise: he would examine something very ordinary

OPINION • BY JAMIE RASKIN When I moved to Takoma Park in 1990, there was no Internet. No websites. No email. No blogging. No neighborhood listservs. No 24-hour

EDITOR'S VOICE • BY ERIC BOND This year marks a quarter century of the Voice. For the past 25 years, this has been an independent monthly tabloid, dedicated to

INTERNET • BY KIRSTY GROFF Montgomery County Council President Roger Berliner appointed Councilmember Hans Riemer Lead for Digital Government February 6, a move intended to promote transparency of

INTERNET • BY BROOKE AUXIER, CNS Maryland lags behind other states in making government information easy for citizens to access online, open government advocates said, despite Gov. Martin

SIN OF THE MONTH • BY ABBY BARDI

“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” 

INTERNET • BY NICK FOLEY, CNS Devoted users of Wikipedia, Reddit, WordPress and Minecraft could be in for a surprise Wednesday as they log on to their trusted

ENVIRONMENT • EARTHTALK What is the environmental impact of so many people now using sites like Facebook and spending so much time online?     The environmental impact of

by Greg Kohn Has it ever occurred to you that you could sell a constantly rotating menu of freshly cooked soup over the Internet? It did to Sarah Polon, who

by Greg Kohn The Montgomery County Parks Department will consider public opinion and the environmental impact in deciding whether sharpshooting some of the overpopulated deer in the Sligo Creek-area

Friday evenings after 5 p.m. usually spell the end of the day for the quaint and inauspicious Howard Avenue in Kensington. That is, with a couple of enormous

Try renting “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” from online media superstore Netflix, and customers are in for an indefinite wait. But a Takoma Park Old Town video store has

Snow plows. Examples of bloated government?

photo by Eric Bond

The Takoma Voice candidate forum scheduled for Sunday, October 18 has been cancelled to encourage community members to attend the memorial open house for Ruth Abbott at 7416

Dear Readers, Your Gilbert would love to fill you in on the last city council meeting, but to our annoyance we find that somebody somewhere on the city website