{"id":14435,"date":"2021-01-01T11:53:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T16:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=14435"},"modified":"2021-01-01T11:53:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T16:53:35","slug":"top-seventh-state-stories-december-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=14435","title":{"rendered":"Top Seventh State Stories, December 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These were the top stories on Seventh State in December ranked by page views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. What Happened to White Flint?<\/a>
2. The Day of Reckoning is Near<\/a>
3. Jawando Calls for a Tax Hike<\/a>
4. Come on Now<\/a>
5. Who’s the Boss?<\/a>
6. MCEA to School Board: Reopening Should be Safe<\/a>
7. Trump vs Hogan: Votes by MoCo Town<\/a>
8. Council Overrides Veto, Attacks Elrich, Cuts Revenue for School Buildings<\/a>
9 (tie). Minority Members of the U.S. House<\/a>
9 (tie). Corporate MoCo Council Adopts Supply-Side Economics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The top three stories fit together and have meaning for the new year and beyond. The Day of Reckoning is Near<\/a> summarizes the county\u2019s dire fiscal picture as it heads into a challenging FY22 budget discussion in the spring. Jawando Calls for a Tax Hike<\/a> kicks off an inevitable dialogue about taxes, one which will only get hotter before the executive makes his budget recommendation on March 15. And What Happened to White Flint?<\/a> \u2013 December\u2019s runaway winner \u2013 lays out the story of how the county\u2019s premier development plan has been held back by our slow rate of job growth. Budget headaches, taxes and economic problems are about to collide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome to 2021, folks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Adam Pagnucco. These were the top stories on Seventh State in December ranked by page views. 1. What Happened to White Flint?2. The Day of Reckoning is Near3. Jawando Calls for a Tax Hike4. Come on Now5. Who’s the Boss?6. MCEA to School Board: Reopening Should be Safe7. Trump vs Hogan: Votes by MoCo … Continue reading Top Seventh State Stories, December 2020<\/span> →<\/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":[33,1820,2320,1054,338,1197,84,35,32,62,134],"tags":[1368,2100,2321,2259,1426,872,1993,968,1508,1476,1475,413,1646,1539,2423],"class_list":["post-14435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-corporate-welfare","category-covid-19","category-development","category-economy","category-larry-hogan","category-marc-elrich","category-mcea","category-mcps","category-redistricting","category-taxes","tag-budget","tag-corporate-welfare","tag-covid-19","tag-development","tag-donald-trump","tag-economic-development","tag-economy","tag-larry-hogan","tag-marc-elrich","tag-mcea","tag-mcps","tag-redistricting-2","tag-seventh-state","tag-taxes","tag-white-flint"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-3KP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14435","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=14435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14437,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14435\/revisions\/14437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}