Comment by June 21 on Trump Administration Change to Poverty Level Measurements
The Trump Administration is exploring changing the inflation measure used to update the poverty line each year, which could wipe millions of low-income people off the poverty rolls and eventually make fewer people eligible for benefits such as SNAP, Medicaid, and ACA subsidies, as well as programs like CSBG, Head Start, LIHEAP, Weatherization, and many others.
Until June 21, 2019, at 11:59 PM, OMB is accepting comments "on the differences among the various consumer price ind
Hogan should move hotel project forward, despite local GOP resistance
Frederick’s Republican delegation to the Maryland General Assembly got an earful of criticism this week from an unusual source — the Frederick County Chamber of Commerce. Generally speaking, Republicans and chambers of commerce go hand-in-glove on public policy. But here they are divided over the chamber’s number one issue in economic development — the downtown hotel and conference center. At the chamber’s annual breakfast wrapping up the recently ended General Assembly sessi
Chamber members call out Republicans for not backing hotel project
In a livelier than usual Chamber of Commerce legislative wrap-up breakfast Wednesday, Chamber members criticized Republicans in the local delegation for not backing the downtown hotel project. After Frederick County's delegates and senators each received time to answer questions about issues like minimum wage and the Interstate 270 expansion, and a few minutes to tout their achievements this session, chamber members chimed in to harp on the delegation's biggest failure: Not m
Wanted: Digital Whizzes to Work in Agriculture
To the uninitiated, it can be hard to imagine. Robots with fingers designed to pick mature tomatoes, among the most delicate of crops. A Fitbit-like collar that monitors the wellbeing of a cow. Drones with sensors to identify dry areas of a field or discover crop production inefficiencies. “In 30 years, what we’re doing or seeing as innovative now will be viewed as tradition,” said Susan Duncan, associate director of the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station at Virginia Te
May 16th Workshop on Alternatives for the I-495 & I-270 Managed Lanes Study
View this email in your browser May 8, 2019 PUBLIC WORKSHOP Thursday, May 16th
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Seneca Valley High School
19401 Crystal Rock Dr
Germantown, MD 20874 Two identical presentations will occur at 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. providing an overview of where we are today with time for questions and answers. Comments will be accepted at the public workshops through hard copy and online comment forms and by email and mail. Throughout the study, we welcome your feedb
Kennedy campaign visit brought spark to Frederick
Even among presidential candidates, John F. Kennedy had a knack for creating a stir when he showed up at an event. His May 13, 1960, campaign appearance in Frederick was no exception, according to a reporter who covered it. John Ashbury worked for the Frederick News-Post when Kennedy visited downtown Frederick during his campaign for the Democratic nomination. Kennedy met with county and city officials at Frederick’s city hall, located at the site of Brewer’s Alley, gave a sp
