MoCo council results
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Anonymous
Baltimore also has cheap houses, and a lots of them. Will you move there or send your kids to the public schools? By the way, their per student spending is much higher than MCPS. |
Anonymous
With all its problems, Baltimore has a lot more development than MoCo and has a much more vibrant influx of young, interesting people while MoCo seems to be turning into a retirement community with hardly and growth or dynamism whatsoever. It’s pretty sad when businesses would rather to a place like Baltimore with so much crime rather than a county that’s adjacent to the nation’s capital with hardly any crime by comparison. It should tell people how terrible county leadership is. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
Which businesses are choosing Baltimore over Moco? The young people are probably going to Baltimore because of the more affordable housing. |
Anonymous
You sound overly focused. Are you suggesting that most business, comparing extremely different real estate prices and markets actually pause to discuss “county leadership?” Do you get that anyone who actually considers “county leadership “ above or alongside the vastly different real estate prices and markets will ALSO consider CITY leadership? You sound like someone with an axe to grind —with limited actual experience of Baltimore. Or starting a business. |
Anonymous
I thought cheap housing was supposed to be a good thing? At least that is what everyone is telling me. |
Anonymous
Baltimore is cheap, which is why people care going there. It has nothing to do with leadership. |
Anonymous
Federal Hill is not cheap. Locust Point is not cheap. Fells Point is not cheap. |
Anonymous
I feel like the MoCo bashers use whatever they can to say it's a bad place to live. Too many services. Not enough services. Too many retired people. All the retired people are leaving the state with their wealth. |
Anonymous
The bottom line is that MoCo has so much more potential, and we are underperform given our population size, levels of education, and relative wealth. We aren't doing as well as other similarly-situated jurisdictions right here in the DMV. So, why not? And why does that matter? County leaders are committed to acting on much larger, global issues that that are not unique to MoCo. And when the problem is bigger than MoCo (racism, climate change, regional transporation needs, etc.) it really needs to be acted on at a regional level, at least. And ideally, at a federal or world level. And it should use state or federal dollars to meet those larger goals that impact more than just us. But they aren't choosing to do that. They are choosing to put a significant portion of county tax dollars to do that work, which is an unsustainable model, long-term, if they don't grow their tax base. They can grow that tax base in two ways: 1) tax individuals more, or 2) grow the number of businesses here that pay taxes. We can't tax individuals more when the wealthier people are moving out. Mostly, that's because it's wealthy retirees leaving and younger, less skilled people moving in. That less-skilled population is a gold mine if the county were willing to invest in their local job training and local job market. You can grow a highly skilled population pretty easily if you commit to it. But we aren't. We pretty much all want the same things. A thriving county where people can find housing, jobs, education, and recreation. For at least 15 years, county leaders talk a pretty game and hit on the emotional catch phrases that people love to hear -- we will end racism, poverty, climate change -- we are good people who care. But they have no idea how to effectively make the trains run. And that's why they will fail. |