Maryland
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Was it just bad timing for an administration trying to show a different face on immigration? While the President was holding holding a series of meetings on immigration reform, ICE was conducting raids at work places and homes up the road in Maryland. Meanwhile, the US Ambassador to Mexico all but ruled out immigration reform this year. Originally posted at AlterNet.org's SpeakEasy ...
DailyKos (Maryland) - Sat 8:01 p.m. - 4 clicks 
Welcome to Week 9's Weekly Update. Below is the link to my "Reznik Report" video blog posted on my website as well as some other links and information that I would like to bring to your attention. CLICK HERE to watch my Week 9 Reznik Report. Town Hall Meeting with Congressman Chris Van Hollen The new date for the town hall meeting has been set as Monday, April 12 from 7:30-9:00 PM. Co...
Reznik for Maryland - Fri 11:28 a.m. - 5 clicks
Over the past few months, Just Up The Pike has received an ever-increasing number of tips. Thanks for the help! It's because of these reader contributions that we've become what Maryland Politics Watch says is the #2 most-read local blog in Maryland . If you've got something to say, please don't hesitate to drop me a line at justupthepike at gmail dot com. Anyway: - Chuck Brown ...
Just Up The Pike - Thu 8:22 p.m. - 5 clicks
I've worked alongside Harry Sanders for the past year as a staffer to Purple Line NOW! The last time I saw him was last Saturday at Suburban Hospital, when I came to videotape a short greeting from him for our Purple Line NOW! fundraiser later this month. It was assumed that he wouldn't be at the event, but no one would have guessed that we would lose him so soon. I'm editing the video now. H...
Just Up The Pike - Thu 10:23 a.m.
- Most go-go shows in East County have gotten shut down , but we've got one better for you: Chuck Brown , the godfather of go-go, and the W.P.G. Trio are coming to the Blair Mansion Inn, 7711 Eastern Avenue near Georgia , this Friday at 9pm . For more info, call 301/588-1688 or visit the Blair Mansion's website . - Now that the snow's quickly melting away, the Voice wants you t...
Just Up The Pike - Wed 7:49 a.m. - 2 clicks
A lot of things have kept City Place Mall from success since it opened in 1992. The five-story mall at Colesville and Fenton in Downtown Silver Spring has a mix of discount and off-brand stores that attract shoppers from across the region but aren't relevant to well-heeled people living in the immediate area. It also suffers from a reputation for crime, notably a drug-related shooting during ru...
Just Up The Pike - Tue 7:27 a.m. - 3 clicks
- Check out this video of blasting at the Silver Spring Transit Center, which will continue at least through the end of March . It's preparing the site for actual construction, which should start later this year and be completed some time in 2011 . You'll have to skip to about 0:45 to see the actual blast, but it's still pretty cool. - Tonight, local swing band Swingtopia retu...
Just Up The Pike - Mon 3:09 p.m. - 5 clicks
- The Art 'N' Soul Open Mic returns to Moorenko's Ice Cream Cafe tonight . Middle- and high-school students who write, play music, or produce other kinds of performable art, are invited to show their stuff at the event, which takes place on the first Friday of each month. Sign-up starts at 7pm at Moorenko's, 8030 Georgia Avenue near East-West Highway . They aren't organizing the event, b...
Just Up The Pike - Mar 5 - 3 clicks
Last night, I went to Silver Spring Action, IMPACT Silver Spring 's fourth-annual community networking event. Each time I go, I'm always really blown away by the turnout, the diversity of the crowd, and the sense of goodwill they share. The theme of this year's event was "re-defining community space," and much like last year's, the bulk of the evening was spent in break-out groups discussin...
Just Up The Pike - Mar 4 - 2 clicks
Chip Py, photographer and friend of JUTP , sent us this photo of demolition work on Thayer Avenue for Studio Plaza, a mixed-use development in Fenton Village approved by the Planning Board ( PDF! ) last spring. This site was formerly home to record store Roadhouse Oldies (which has since relocated a block away) and a handful of other small shops, seen here in a photo taken with Jerry ...
Just Up The Pike - Mar 4 - 2 clicks
Y'all might remember musician/activist/friend of JUTP Davey Rogner from our story two years ago on a student-led campaign against the InterCounty Connector , or maybe from his [now-defunct] band, Lonely are the Brave . When he recently told me about his plans to spend the next year and a half walking to San Francisco, I was impressed more than I was confused. Most of my newly-graduated f...
Just Up The Pike - Mar 3 - 3 clicks
- Tonight , IMPACT Silver Spring continues its successful annual networking event with Silver Spring Action: Re-imagine Community Space!, taking place at 7pm in the Crowne Plaza Hotel at Georgia and Fenwick . Just like last year's event , you'll get some serious networking in and enjoy free food. Visit IMPACT's website to RSVP. - The venerable Quarry House Tavern at Georgia and...
Just Up The Pike - Mar 3 - 3 clicks
At long last, here are the first results of Just Up The Pike 's Great Peruvian Taste Test , finding you the best pollo a la brasa in suburban Maryland. We've been taste-testing the top five restaurants as selected by You, The Reader and rated according to our established taste test criteria , with a couple of changes. What we haven't done, however, is taste them in order. So to begin, her...
Just Up The Pike - Mar 2 - 10 clicks
Welcome to Week 7's Update from here in Annapolis. I apologize for the delay in sending this out, but we experienced some technical difficulties on Friday. Below is the link to my weekly "Reznik Report" video blog posted on my website, as well as some other links that you may find useful. CLICK HERE to watch the Week 7 Reznik Report As many of you may have already heard, this week A...
Reznik for Maryland - Mar 1 - 4 clicks
- IMPACT Silver Spring continues its successful annual networking event with Silver Spring Action: Re-imagine Community Space!, taking place at 7pm Wednesday at the Crowne Plaza Hotel at Georgia and Fenwick . JUTP met a lot of people - and pissed off a couple of them - at last year's event , and I'm looking forward to going again this year. (The food was also very good.) Visit IMPA...
Just Up The Pike - Mar 1
- The East County jazz scene generally begins with Blake High School's swing band ( pictured ) and ends with the Olney Big Band . Now there's a new entry: Swingtopia , an eight-piece outfit led by Doug Elliott and featuring our very own Cyndy, who writes the blog Photocynthesis , on the bass. They'll be making their first appearance at Greek Village , a restaurant in Colesville best ...
Just Up The Pike - Feb 26 - 4 clicks
Say what you will about the musical Rent . It's melodramatic and sappy; it's quickly showing its age as a product of the '90's; and its glamorization of the bohemian lifestyle isn't funny to anyone who consciously steers clear of the "hipster bars" where PBR might be served. But I can't deny that I felt moved after watching Kensington Arts Theatre 's production of the rock opera, directed ...
Just Up The Pike - Feb 25 - 5 clicks
It was nice to spend an afternoon in Downtown Silver Spring last weekend walking around and clearing my head right before sunset, when the light's nice for taking moody photos. What's missing here? If you said "speed bumps," you're right on. They were installed on Ellsworth Drive in 2007 for the obvious reason of traffic calming, despite the fact that Ellsworth today has a high volume of ...
Just Up The Pike - Feb 24 - 2 clicks
- Tonight , talk to county planners about the future of Long Branch at a community meeting for the Long Branch Sector Plan , which will lay out a vision for the neighborhood when the Purple Line opens there at the end of the decade. The meeting starts at 7pm at the Long Branch Library, 8800 Garland Avenue at Arliss Street . - Meanwhile, the Forum Theatre troupe kicks off their late...
Just Up The Pike - Feb 24 - 3 clicks
Last night, Eric from Thayer Avenue once again live-tweeted the proceedings at East Silver Spring Civic Association's monthly meeting, at which local landowner Ulysses Glee discussed his plans for a mixed-use complex he'd like to build on the parking lot at Fenton Street and Silver Spring Avenue in Fenton Village. Those who don't nearby may know the lot as the site of Fenton Street Marke...
Just Up The Pike - Feb 23 - 3 clicks
Last weekend, Jackie's Restaurant hosted an acoustic concert benefitting a hospital in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. About eighty people turned up to see a number of local musicians and support the International Medical Alliance , currently providing health care on the border of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. As always, local photographer and friend of JUTP Chip Py was there to capture the...
Just Up The Pike - Feb 23 - 2 clicks
- People get snippy when others park in the spaces they've painstakingly shoveled out. Here's a list of passive-aggressive notes left on offending cars in Silver Spring and other places still waiting for the snow to melt. - A new bakery and community space is opening up in the former Savory Cafe in Takoma Park, says the City Paper . Capital City Cheesecake , currently based out of Bro...
Just Up The Pike - Feb 22 - 5 clicks
Welcome to Week 6’s Update from here in Annapolis. Below is the link to my weekly “Reznik Report” video blog posted on my website. Also below is information on how to keep monitor legislation in the 2010 General Assembly Legislative Session and a link to a news report focusing on Angel’s Law. CLICK HERE to watch the Week 6 Reznik Report I have finally submitted all of my proposed legislat...
Reznik for Maryland - Feb 19 - 4 clicks
The Lee Development Group told the Gazette they'll open the Fillmore , a new music club at Colesville and Georgia, by next September, knock on wood. (Tap tap.) That's only if they can get plans for the project approved by the Planning Board this summer and break ground this October. Eventually, the Fillmore will be the anchor of a larger hotel-and-office complex that'll go up on the park...
Just Up The Pike - Feb 19 - 2 clicks
- Are you anxious for some Vancouver Olympics action? You should go curling at the National Capital Curling Center , located Just Up The Pike in West Laurel. As a generally unathletic person, I found this sport - in which you sweep ice to guide a large stone - not only easy to learn but quite engrossing as well. The NCCC is having an open house tomorrow from 9am to 8pm , but you migh...
Just Up The Pike - Feb 19 - 4 clicks
The recession hasn't been kind to Downtown Wheaton, a place that already had a few issues to begin with. In the past eighteen months, we've lost a coffee house , a movie theatre and bar and even the local gay nightclub , not to mention a slew of stores inside Wheaton Plaza . Finally, the economic downturn's come to a place that many thought was impervious: the local video shop with...
Just Up The Pike - Feb 18 - 2 clicks
- Lydia at Snoburbia writes about how affluent families in MoCo refuse to shop at Wheaton Plaza due to fears of crime . "Even with its Macy's, Hollister, American Eagle, PacSun, DSW, and other snoburb-friendly fare . . . Wheaton Plaza is ten minutes away, has great stores, and has a better selection of sale merchandise than Montgomery Mall (Bethesda) or Tyson's Corner (McLean), the ...
Just Up The Pike - Feb 17
Narnia in Takoma Park and other pictures from the Snowpocalypse Slideshow created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Magnolia trees do not do well in heavy snow. If 10 inches or more of snow are forecast, consider chopping down the tree, most of it’s coming down anyway. Vintage Comfortmaker gas furnaces are sentient, know the difference between good and evil, and [...]...
newsrackblog.com: maryland - Feb 16 - 5 clicks
There are no more spaces between words. Have to save time. Have to save money. Movies are just continuous dialogue spliced with sex scenes and explosions. Twitter becomes the only website Anyone. Ever. Uses. (As I waited for the letters to scroll across the marquee, I wondered if I should take a photo when it says "Facebook" or "Twitter" and joke that they made social media into a movie, b...
Just Up The Pike - Feb 16 - 2 clicks
East County residents are petitioning the State Highway Administration to name an overpass crossing the soon-to-be-completed InterCounty Connector after local civic activist Stuart Rochester , who passed away last summer. C. Patrick Zilliacus of Fairland, who with Rochester helped guide the drafting of the 1997 Fairland Master Plan , sent this letter to the SHA explaining why the bridge on Ol...
Just Up The Pike - Feb 16
Welcome to Week 5’s Update from here in Annapolis. Because of the snowstorm this week, the weekly email is a bit shorter. However, below is the link to my weekly “Reznik Report” video blog posted on my website, as well as the link to the video’s transcript. Also below is information that you may find useful in dealing with the storms’ aftermath. CLICK HERE to watch the Week 5 Reznik Report ...
Reznik for Maryland - Feb 12
Welcome to Week 4’s Update from here in Annapolis. Below is the link to my weekly “Reznik Report” video blog posted on my website. Also below is information I would like to share with you including Governor O’Malley’s State of the State address, invitation to District 39 night in Annapolis, transparency initiatives here in Annapolis, Maryland’s Federal Stimulus spending, and information about a t...
Reznik for Maryland - Feb 5 - 2 clicks
Will Obama do the Christian thing and protect LGBT from Christian Prayer Breakfast? Dan Ewald: YDM LGBT Caucus Chair I can't recall the number of times I had to defend Obama for his inaction on LGBT issues. During the campaign, many were divided between Hillary and Barack. Hill-dog was beloved by the community and seen as a great advocate for minority rights. Barack had past l...
Young Democrats of Maryland - Feb 4
In State of the State speech, Md. Gov. O'Malley focuses on jobs Md. doesn't need state-operated insurance exchange, report says Md. General to open $57 million expansion Bills would ban products with 2 chemicals in Md. Jury must decide whether crash that killed 8 was a street race Lawsuit targets speed cameras Silver Spring wants to make city safer for pedestrians ...
The Modern Day Prophet - Feb 3
Prince George's crime levels hit 35-year low Jury selection in street race trial continues after dark Assembly website called “antiquated” Hogan won't run, backs Ehrlich for governor Md. gets poor mark in teacher regulations ...
The Modern Day Prophet - Feb 2 - 2 clicks
Welcome to Week 3's Update from here in Annapolis. Below is the link to my weekly "Reznik Report" video blog posted on my website and information about two press conferences I participated in this week along with some recent press my bill setting limits on credit checks in the work place. In this week's Reznik Report I will discuss two pieces of legislation I introduced this week, some encourag...
Reznik for Maryland - Jan 29 - 5 clicks
Del. Roger Manno's HB 10 addresses present, mid- and long-term budget and fiscal challenges. Currently, no other proposal addresses the need to increase revenue and fix systemic short-falls in the state employees' and teachers' pension funds. Here's the synopsis of HB 10: "Imposing a tax at a specified rate on income in excess of $1,000,000; requiring specified corporations...
Free State Politics - Jan 27
Join the Montgomery County Progressive Alliance and the Greater Silver Spring Democrats Club for a panel discussion County and State Budgets: Delegates Brian Feldman , Sheila Hixson , and Roger Manno ; County Council President Nancy Floreen . Speakers are checking their schedules to see if they can make it for the new date. Others invited. Saturday February 13th 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Wh...
Free State Politics - Jan 27 - 2 clicks
Welcome to Week 2's update from here in Annapolis. Below is the link to my weekly "Reznik Report" video blog that I have now begun posting on my website and some information I think everyone should be aware of. In this week's Reznik Report I will discuss the budget proposed by the Governor and the 2 pieces of legislation I introduced in the last few days. CLICK HERE to watch the Week 1 Reznik ...
Reznik for Maryland - Jan 22 - 3 clicks
Annapolis, MD: January 21, 2010 – Delegate Kirill Reznik (D-39) has introduced a bill in the House, HB 175, which will prohibit employers in the state of Maryland, with exceptions, from using a person’s credit history or credit report when making hiring and retention decisions. Similar legislation has already been passed in Hawaii and Washington. Studies have shown that employers are increasi...
Reznik for Maryland - Jan 22 - 2 clicks
