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

EDUCATION • BY KIRSTY GROFF The April 3 Maryland primary helped narrow the field of candidates to the top two candidates in each race for the Montgomery County

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

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

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

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, The Takoma Park city council chambers was the scene of a head-on collision April 2. The Sustaininator smashed into Aunty Nukes. City staff

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT

Dear Readers,

The next time councilmember Seth Grimes asks someone to correct any misconceptions he might have, would somebody please get

TRANSPORTATION • BY AMANDA ZIADEH The completion of the new Silver Spring Transit Center may be delayed after a contractor error that left the concrete in various places

BIZ BUZZ • BY TEIGHLER DOAK If you’re looking to have a couple beers where do you go? Roscoe's? The Olive Lounge? Here’s one I bet you wouldn’t

BIZ BUZZ • BY ED LEVY I know that as a reviewer I’m supposed to be objective, but with Snider’s I can’t help it. I love this place!

VOX POPULI • BY ED LEVY I thought of this title before heading up to New Hampshire in early January a few days prior to the Republican Presidential

EYE ON ANNAPOLIS • BY ELLEN STODOLA, CNS After failing in last year's legislative session, Gov. Martin O'Malley is trying again with a new bill that would make offshore

EYE ON ANNAPOLIS • BY TIM EBNER, CNS Cash-strapped Maryland county leaders say they can't afford to pay their share of rising costs for schools and are asking

EYE ON ANNAPOLIS • BY LIZZY MCLELLAN, CNS A Maryland lawmaker wants to require the use of carbon monoxide detectors in all public schools following two leaks of

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, Takoma Park's new councilmembers want a sustainability coordinator and they want it now! Freshly seated and not yet saddle-sore, they

The holidays conjure up images of family and familiar places, cold weather and warm connections. With a chill in the air and the garlands up, Takoma Park looks