Braveboy Won’t Respond to Questions; District 2 Still Has No Representation
District 2 families, including Greenbelt, began and continue this school year without representation on the Board of Education despite an application period that was concluded even before the vacancy was announced. Board Chair Branndon Jackson requested that County Executive Aisha Braveboy initiate the process to appoint a replacement in a letter dated June 27. The […]
Reprieve for BARC Employees Just Ahead of Decommissioning
The deadline to shutter operations at Beltsville Agricultural Center (BARC) loomed large this month. On September 1, a federal judge declined to rule for an injunction on the reorganization of BARC, finding it wasn’t relevant to the initial case. However, on September 8, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), along with a coalition of […]
Greenbelt Has Day in Court Over Firefighters, with No Rebuttal
On Thursday, September 10, Sue-Ellen Ferguson, a lawyer for Greenbelt, Berwyn Heights and College Park, was in the Appellate Court of Maryland in Annapolis to present the municipalities’ grievance over the removal of Prince George’s County Fire Department (PGFD) career firefighters (see the September 10 issue). The hearing had been delayed as Greenbelt hoped to […]
Greenbelt Will Lose 24/7 Unit Even As Response Times Climb
Beginning no later than September 30, Greenbelt fire station will gain daytime career staffing but lose its 24/7 Advanced Life Support (ALS) unit. For the past two years, the station has been staffed with an around-the-clock paramedic unit and a second ambulance for peak hours from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays. Soon there will […]
Left on the Curb: PGCPS Hears From Parents and Bus Drivers
Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) Director of Transportation Keba Baldwin stepped down following what parents across the district reported as a disastrous first week for school transportation, which also saw the crash of the county’s bus tracking app, Chipmunk, on the first day. The backdrop for much reporting on transportation issues were lines of […]
County Exec Office Stonewalls School Board Vacancy Questions
Greenbelt and other District 2 parents have begun the new school year sharing the systemwide challenges but, additionally, without a Board of Education representative. They don’t know when they can expect one. The vacancy and application process do not appear to have been advertised, which raises questions about whether the timing could bestow an incumbent […]
School Year Begins with Changes, Challenges, Resourceful Parents
The new school year began with changes for many Greenbelt students. At Greenbelt Elementary School they welcomed the new year with a new principal, Latasha Dorsey (see the August 13 issue). Greenbelt Middle School is still engaged in a search for their next principal to replace the beloved Marcellus Clement and begins the year with […]
Too Late to Matter: The Failures Behind the Specimen Ballot Delay
This is the second of a two-part series of articles looking at the absence of specimen ballots in Greenbelt in time for the primary election on June 23. This article investigates what caused the delayed mailing. Specimen ballots should have been mailed to voters by June 4 at the latest according to Maryland election law, […]
Specimen Ballot Mailing Violated Law, Likely Impacted Election
This is the first of a two-part series of articles looking at the absence of specimen ballots in Greenbelt in time for the primary election on June 23. This article considers the importance of the specimen ballots and the impact of their absence. A second article investigates what went wrong with the delayed mailing. When […]
County Exec to Select Briggs’ Replacement; Questions Continue
The process to replace outgoing District 2 Board of Education member Jonathan Briggs, whose date of resignation is still unclear, is being run by the office of the county executive, not the county council. This is contrary to information the Greenbelt News Review received in writing last week from the Prince George’s County Public Schools […]