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CASA helping suspected illegals nabbed at work to post bail
- Leaders of a local immigrant advocacy group are trying to help suspected illegal immigrants arrested in work site raids access bail money.
40 percent of MontCo public safety retirees receive disability payments, report shows
- Nearly 40 percent of Montgomery County public safety retirees earn extra money for work-related disabilities, compared with 3 percent of similar retirees in Fairfax County, according to a report released Monday by Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett.
Audit says Racing Division’s system of reporting revenue is prone to fraud
- A Maryland audit found the state had no idea whether it collected all the money and taxes it is owed from betting on horse races, months before residents will decide whether to allow thousands of slot machines at racetracks.
- A Maryland audit found the state had no idea whether it collected all the money and taxes it is owed from betting on horse races, months before residents will decide whether to allow thousands of slot machines at racetracks.
County, state payments overdue to hospital system
- Prince George’s County and Maryland officials are behind on their first $2.8 million payment to the county’s beleaguered hospital system, despite state law that required each to pay up by July 1.
Fair warning
- Damascus dad Alan Wakefield has decided this year he will pass on the funnel cake, corn dogs, Vortex rides and other pleasures that for families across America have long constituted a day at the county fair.
- Damascus dad Alan Wakefield has decided this year he will pass on the funnel cake, corn dogs, Vortex rides and other pleasures that for families across America have long constituted a day at the county fair.
Economy turns screws on fairs’ budgets
- Marty Svrcek, executive director of the Montgomery County Agricultural Center Inc., which operates the county fair, told The Examiner on Tuesday that the fair is being hit with steeper prices from all sides.
Housing funds for MontCo employees go unused
- A half-million dollars intended to help Montgomery County employees buy homes in the pricey jurisdiction has sat unused for more than a year, provoking the charge that County Executive Ike Leggett has failed to act.
Holy Cross Hospital to expand in Germantown
- Holy Cross Hospital officials announced plans Monday to build a 93-bed hospital in Germantown.
MontCo referendum seen as guide to nixing transgender laws in U.S.
- Religious conservatives are hoping a referendum on a Montgomery County law protecting transgender people could become a template to repeal similar measures across the country.
Prevailing wage law could hike Montgomery’s building costs
- Contractors working on some Montgomery County construction projects could be forced to pay their workers more if County Council members pass a prevailing wage law similar to those already in place in Prince George’s County and Baltimore City.
Traffic cameras create 180,000 tickets and counting
- Montgomery County’s traffic camera program nabbed nearly 180,000 speeders in the first nine months of the program, and officials expect the project to rake in even more in its second year.
Police chief wants immigration policy updates in writing
- Montgomery County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger is updating Montgomery’s written police directives on the hot-button topic of immigration, which will likely spark discussion in perhaps the region’s friendliest jurisdiction to illegal immigrants.
Volunteer firefighters blast proposed ambulance fees
- Montgomery County’s volunteer firefighters hate just about everything to do with proposed ambulance transport fees.
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