Monday, November 12, 2012
County Council will hold eight public hearings and introduce three pieces of legislation on Tuesday.
The Montgomery County Council is set to take up its vision for a new housing policy, declare its position on this year's request for school construction funding, and introduce a bill to rewrite the fee structure for mitigating the traffic and school-population impacts of new developments. Tuesday's weekly meeting is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. in the Council hearing room at 100 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD. Call 240-777-7803 to testify. The meeting is also televised live on CCM Channels Comcast 6, RCN 6, Verizon 30. For more information, go to www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council. See the full agenda here. A NEW VISION ON HOUSING The Council will be briefed on the 2012 update to Montgomery County’s Housing Policy. The draft policy—finished …
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
What financial effect would the Dream Act have?
The first in-depth fiscal analysis of the Maryland “Dream Act” claims that the law would yield a $66 million long-term gain for each yearly group of undocumented students allowed to pay in-state tuition at state community colleges and universities. The Dream Act was signed into law in the spring of 2011 but was promptly stymied by a Republican-led referendum petition. It is one of four controversial statewide ballot questions voters will settle on Nov. 6. It would allow certain illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition at Maryland community colleges and, later, universities. The qualifications include: Qualifying students would start at a two-year community college. When they apply to a four-year school, they would be evaluated as part of…
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
The phrase you choose can cast aspersions and draw allegiances at its mere utterance.
Amid the raging invective focused on the nation’s efforts to deal with unlawful immigration, a war of words wages in the undercurrent—a subtle struggle over the language used to define the discussion. Are the millions of people in the United States who are not here lawfully “illegal” or are they “undocumented”? The question is not mere semantics, activists and experts say: Choosing one over the other exposes allegiances and stokes the embers of animosity. Take for example the ballots that await Maryland voters in this November’s election. Question 4—the referendum on Maryland’s version of the “Dream Act”—will ask whether the state should allow “undocumented immigrants” to be eligible for in-state tuition. Immigrant advocates tend to abhor…
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Anne Arundel court sided last week in favor of November ballot question on 2011 law that would make hundreds of illegal immigrants eligible for in-state tuition.
The Maryland “Dream Act” is bound for more courtroom colloquy before appellate judges decide whether voters will settle the issue via the ballot. Attorneys trying to prevent a November referendum said today they will appeal last week's ruling in Anne Arundel Circuit Court that the Dream Act doesn't meet the Maryland Constitution's provisions that exempt appropriations bills from a ballot-box challenge. Signed into law in May, the Dream Act would qualify certain illegal immigrants for in-state tuition at Maryland community colleges. A trio of Republican legislators spearheaded a statewide petition drive that easily tallied enough signatures to block the Dream Act’s July 1 start date and put the issue to voters in November. In August, a …
Monday, February 20, 2012
Anne Arundel judge rules that voters should be allowed to decide the fate of in-state college tuition for illegal immigrants.
The referendum on the Maryland "Dream Act" cleared its first legal hurdle on Friday after an Anne Arundel judge upheld the Maryland Board of Elections's ruling that the legislation can appear on ballots this November. Anne Arundel Circuit Court Judge Ronald A. Silkworth ruled on Friday that the Dream Act—which would allow certain illegal immigrants to pay in-state rates at Maryland colleges—meets the state constitution’s standards for legislation that is subject to referendum. The Maryland legislature passed the Dream Act in the final moments of the 2011 legislative session. Opponents immediately launched a statewide petition aiming to put the issue on the ballot this November. They collected nearly twice the minimum 55,736 signatures …
Saturday, July 9, 2011
State elections board has until July 22 to make results official. Meanwhile, supporters and opponents gird for campaign to win voters over ahead of 2012 election.
Opponents of the Maryland “Dream Act” have cleared their most important hurdle, with validated signatures totaling twice as many as needed to send the would-be law to referendum next year. Elections officials verified the final batch of signatures on Thursday afternoon. Of the more than 76,000 submitted on the June 30 deadline, 63,118 were deemed valid. That brings the total to 110,346 valid signatures amassed since Gov. Martin O’Malley signed the bill into law in May. The Dream Act would allow recent high school graduates who are in the country illegally to pay in-state tuition if they meet certain requirements, including attending a state high school for at least three years and that their parents pay state taxes. The Maryland State …
Sharon Adams
2:33 pm on Monday, November 12, 2012
"•Conserving and caring for residential neighborhoods" Listen up, Montgomery Village & all the neglectful HOA's within the Village. more ›