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My Backyard is the newsletter of Eyes of Paint Branch, a grassroots organization dedicated to preserving, protecting, and restoring the Paint Branch and it's wathershed. Annual memberships in Eyes of Paint Branch are $15 for individuals, and $25 for families. Funding for this newsletter came from a grant from the Silver Creek Foundataion. Funding for our watershed advocacy depends on dues and contributions. Help preserve, protect, and restore the Paint Branch by sending a tax-deductible check today to: EOPB P.O.Box 272 Burtonsville, MD 20866
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Would the Inter-County Connector Really Relieve Traffic Congestion? "None of the ICC alternatives will have a substantial impact on the levels of service [congestion] experienced by motorists on the Capital Beltway, I-270 or I-95 within the Study Area." Full Story If We Say No to the ICC, Then What Are the Alternatives? Los Angeles, which is consistently rated the city with the worst traffic congestion in the nation, has a staggering 909 miles of freeways and highways. Even The Washington Post, a constant booster of the false ideology of road expansion as the solution to commuting woes... Full Story An Environmentally Sensitive ICC? As the 2002 elections draw near, there has been increased talk about the need to build the ICC in an environmentally sensitive way. Yet there is no attempt by ICC proponents to explain what "environmentally sensitive" means. Full Story A Short History of the ICC: An Idea Whose Time is Past Proponents of the ICC often say that it should be built because it has been in the county’s master plan for many decades. What they don’t say is how it got there. Full Story The President's Corner: The Mythology of the ICC Robert Ferraro EOPB President Reading the press coverage of Montgomery County's election campaigns, I'm reminded of a course I took called "Problems of Democracy." In this course I learned about the various techniques of political propaganda and how to sort through it to get to the real issues. One of these techniques, called the "Big Lie," was to keep repeating something so often that it becomes an accepted "truth." This election season, our "Big Lie" is that the ICC will relieve traffic congestion on our roads. Full Story Eyes of Paint Branch Upcoming Events View the entire Eyes of Paint Branch Fall 2002 Newsletter |
