{"id":13919,"date":"2020-10-06T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13919"},"modified":"2020-10-31T13:15:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T17:15:44","slug":"top-seventh-state-stories-september-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13919","title":{"rendered":"Top Seventh State Stories, September 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These were the top stories on Seventh State in September ranked by page views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13701\">Free-For-All<\/a><br>2. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13886\">Why Montgomery County Ballot Questions B and D Are Truly Bad Ideas You Should Vote Against<\/a><br>3. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13890\">Harris Blasts MCEA Over School Reopening<\/a><br>4. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13892\">Harris Apologizes for Comments on School Reopening<\/a><br>5. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13737\">Progressive-Backed Judge Candidate Courted, Donated to Republicans<\/a><br>6. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13881\">Changing the Reopening Timeline: A Recipe for Confusion and Anxiety<\/a><br>7. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13884\">Ballot Question Committee Scorecard<\/a><br>8. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13745\">Post Editorial: Vote Against All Charter Amendments<\/a><br>9. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13138\">Judge Candidate on Floyd Cops: \u201cLock Em Up\u201d<\/a><br>10. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13749\">Why Progressives Should Support the Friedson Amendment<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13701\">Free-For-All<\/a>, which called into question the county\u2019s strategy for dealing with the police department, was the runaway leader this month. That suggests that there is considerable unease about the county\u2019s approach to MCPD which goes far beyond the groups the county hears from regularly. School board candidate Lynne Harris\u2019s criticism of MCEA, for which she later apologized, produced a flood of site traffic. The two posts about circuit court judge candidate Marylin Pierre were circulated by her opponents on the sitting judge slate. The rest of the posts were mostly about MoCo\u2019s charter amendments, on which voting has already begun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adam Pagnucco. These were the top stories on Seventh State in September ranked by page views. 1. Free-For-All2. Why Montgomery County Ballot Questions B and D Are Truly Bad Ideas You Should Vote Against3. Harris Blasts MCEA Over School Reopening4. Harris Apologizes for Comments on School Reopening5. Progressive-Backed Judge Candidate Courted, Donated to Republicans6. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13919\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Top Seventh State Stories, September 2020<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2319,167,2377,35,32,15,2362,286,134,185],"tags":[806,1032,1549,2372,2341,2364,1476,1475,1463,2393,1701,2324,1596,2342,1539,937],"class_list":["post-13919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrew-friedson","category-ike-leggett","category-judicial-elections","category-mcea","category-mcps","category-montgomery-county-council","category-police","category-robin-ficker","category-taxes","category-washington-post","tag-andrew-friedson","tag-ballot-questions","tag-ike-leggett","tag-judicial-elections","tag-lynne-harris","tag-marylin-pierre","tag-mcea","tag-mcps","tag-montgomery-county-council","tag-nine-districts-for-moco","tag-police","tag-property-taxes","tag-robin-ficker","tag-sunil-dasgupta","tag-taxes","tag-washington-post-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-3Cv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13920,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13919\/revisions\/13920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}