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When the dust settled from the wild 2018 election one that saw dozens of Democrats compete for County Council seats Montgomery County wound up with just one woman on the nine-member council, Nancy Navarro (D).
Montgomery now has a record low number of female councilmembers, a trend at odds with the county’s reputation as one of the state’s most liberal bastions.
But that’s about to change, according to political professionals, activists and women who plan to run for the council in the 2022 elections including some who came within striking distance in the 2018 elections.
Washington Gas Fined $750,000 for 2016 Explosion at Flower Branch Apartments
Washington Gas Light (WGL) was fined $750,000 for failing to inform the Public Service Commission that it had not replaced all its mercury regulators as promised, which were found as the probable cause of the gas explosion and death of seven residents at Flower Branch Apartments in Silver Spring on Aug. 10, 2016.
The commission fined the utility company Dec. 18, noting that WGL had committed to replacing its mercury regulators by 2012 and never updated the commission that it had not completed the work. It still has not replaced all the mercury regulators and told MyMCM it will take another eight years to remove the remaining ones.
‘A Great Day for the State’: Board of Public Works Approves Purple Line Settlement
The three-member Maryland Board of Public Works unanimously approved a settlement that ends all financial claims and litigation concerning the proposed Purple Line. Under the agreement, the state will pay $250 million, of which $100 million is due by the end of this month.
“We are going to see the Purple Line, a little late, but still working to unite the suburbs,” said board member and Maryland State Treasurer Nancy Kopp at the board’s Dec. 16 meeting,
The Maryland Department of Transportation, Meridiam, Star America and Fluor, which had been partners on the project, reached an agreement that allows the Purple Line Transit Partners P3 Agreement to proceed, but only with Meridiam and Star America as P3 developers and equity partners.