Are ugly tires littering your neighborhoods and streets? Did you know that if you get your tires properly taken care of in the state of Maryland that they charge you an 80 cent recycling fee? It's to clean up illegally scrapped tires.

You can help reduce the scrap tire problem. see the Department of the Environment's fact sheet here.

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Forwarded to me through many channels, apparently originating from Greg Anderson, Program Advocate & Counselor:

THE WEATHERIZATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

This is a program, funded by a grant from
the Department of Energy and administered
by the Department of Housing and Community
Development, to weatherize the homes of
Prince Georges  County residents at no ( Read more... )

Some people think they should write the governor to ask him not to sign it since it overrides the people's will. SB 848 has passed but has not yet been signed by the governor.

The bill is entitiled "Education - Maintenance of Effort". The synopsis says, "Authorizing a county governing body, for a specified purpose and under specified circumstances, ( Read more... )

The federal government has created a fancy (and expensive) web site for the purpose of transparency to let us know where the recovery funds are going. You can see a lot of funds going to Prince George's County on the map here. You can zoom in and see the dots in your area; a window with information will show up when you mouseover a dot. I notice a ( Read more... )

If you can't make it to the Prince George's County Administration Building in Upper Marlboro at 10 AM on a Tues. morning, then write your representatives about this. Important if you are a Tax Payer ( Read more... )

There was a hearing on last Wednesday, March 18, 2009 on legislation with the PZED Committee and with no doubt would have passed through without opposition. It has been tabled until Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 1:30 pm. So if you believe that we should be getting fees from developers/development per the current law to help boost the county income, ( Read more... )

If you would like to spread the news about the stadium issue via your Facebook account, you can join Facebook's Cause "No Tax Money for Prince George's Soccer Stadium" and use this link in your email also: http://tinyurl.com/nostadium

See the latest Prince George's County blogger posts ( Read more... )

Excerpted from a post by community activist Judy Robinson ( Read more... )

Now is the time to tell your legislators what you would like to see happen during the General Assembly. Even if they're on the calendar for today, they will not be making final decisions, so you have time to call your legislators, especially on bills that are of special concern to you. Here are some specific bills for Prince George's Co.:

PG 401- ( Read more... )

Yes, that's right. The Prince George's Co. Council is planning to raise property taxes by 10%. They passed PG-414-09, but it has to go through the Maryland General Assembly to allow it. There have been several news articles about it: Prince George's Council Supports Tax Hike by News Channel 8 and Council Supports Johnson Tax Hike Proposal by the ( Read more... )