Roadside white-on-blue rectangular sign headed "Illegal dumping is a crime!" Addtional text: "Violators will be investigated by Montgomery County."

Quarterly @mygreenmc.bsky.social check, from your Department of Redundancy Department: and last and least for now, still "illegal dumping is a crime" signs throughout the county (in images, at Avenel and Moffet).

Best fix: remove the signs and poles.
Good: "Dumping here is a crime."

Just outside Takoma Park, Maryland, wide view of north side of intersection of University Boulevard and Edwards Place. No street name signage is visible.

Just outside Takoma Park, Maryland, wide view of north side of intersection of University Boulevard and 14th Avenue. No street name signage is visible.

Quarterly #TakomaPark adjacent check: still no replacement for @PGCountyDPWT.twitter.com street name signs on University at Edwards Place and at 14th. Signs were destroyed by
@purplelinemd.bsky.social.

@govwesmoore.bsky.social

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On Merrimac Drive near 14th Avenue in Prince George's County, Maryland, a pre-2025-style Prince George's County bus stop sign atop a roadside sign pole.

Detail from sign, including the text "STOP ID # 31568."

Quarterly @pgcountydpwt.twitter.com check: still a bus stop sign at abandoned stop 31568 (Merrimac and 14th).

Fix: remove the sign and pole.

Aboard a Metrobus, a fare box with a 2025-vintage sign headed "fares pay for service. all cards now accepted."

Closeup of bottom section of sign, including a QR code and Metro logo. No phone number, web address, or street address appears.

Quarterly @metrobusinfo.bsky.social check: new fare box fare charts still lack contact information: web address; phone number; headquarters street address. They do have a QR code. This is an equity matter.

@wmatagm.bsky.social

In Montgomery County, Maryland, at the intersection of Northampton and Avenel, a sign pole topped by a Metrobus bus stop sign and a Ride On bus stop sign. No timetable or Braille placard appears.

Closeup of bus stop signs, including a Metrobus bus stop sign numbered 2000269.

Quarterly @metrobusinfo.bsky.social check: still no replacement for paper timetable and Braille placard at stop 2000269 (Northampton and Avenel).

@wmatagm.bsky.social

At the rear door of a Metrobus, a red-on-white sign with the text "Exit only."

Quarterly @metrobusinfo.bsky.social check: still "exit only" signs at rear doors of buses (in image, bus 2879); they are not longer so.

@wmatagm.bsky.social

Quarterly check mixed news.

Good: Route M60 buses now show Fort Totten as a (half-time) transfer station to the Yellow Line. Thanks @metrobusinfo.bsky.social.

Bad: the resistant-to-rail-line-change "transfer to Metrorail" approach was not taken.

@wmatagm.bsky.social

Quarterly @metrobusinfo.bsky.social check: autuomated announcements on Route M60 (and perhaps other routes) still mispronounce Ingraham (as three syllables, at least on bus 2879)

@wmatagm.bsky.social

Quarterly #TakomaPark check: @metrobusinfo.bsky.social stop 3001925 still rightly shown as Sheridan Street, automatedly misannounced as Cockerille Avenue (bus 2872).

Fix: remove and sell every last expensive, unreliable electronic display systemwide.

@wmatagm.bsky.social

buseta.wmata.com/#3001925

Quarterly @metrobusinfo.bsky.social check: still no audio, real-time display at stop 2000364 (New Hampshire Avenue and Powder Mill Road).

Fix: install and maintain paper timetables everywhere, then remove and sell every last expensive, unreliable electronic display systemwide.

@wmatagm.bsky.social

#TakomaPark council: next live posts, tomorrow, April 22, 2026, starting about 7:15 (barring an intervening Secret Session or Super Secret Session). Don't miss it if you can.

BREAKING: on first and only reading, #TakomaPark council unanimously votes to hold a closed session.

Voting yes: Mayor Searcy and councilmembers Dyballa, Gilbert, Honzak, Landman, Schlegel, and Wesolek.

"Democracy dies in darkness."

#TakomaPark council: Mayor Searcy reads aloud from tonight's agenda regarding the advertised purpose for the Secret Session and the Maryland laws that allow it to be held.

#TakomaPark council: and away we go (complete with gavel).

#TakomaPark council: Mayor Searcy has arrived in the auditorium.

#TakomaPark council: while we wait for the mayor, the Kitty Margolis version of "Secret Love."

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#TakomaPark council: no police presence in the auditorium; your correspondent is the only member of the public here (putting the "demo" in "representative democracy.")

#TakomaPark council: Councilmember Schlegel is now here; the only elected official missing is Mayor Searcy.

#TakomaPark council: Counclmembers Dyballa, Honzak, Gilbert, Landman, and Wesolek are here; there's both a quorum and (with mayor pro tem Dyballa) a presider. The city clerk/director of council affairs has made an appearance in the auditorium.

City Council Closed Session Vote - Tuesday, April 21, 2026 YouTube video by Takoma Park City TV

#TakomaPark council: the vote to hold a Secret Session should be viewable using the Youtube link below for those of you who want to follow along at home (and for those of you who don't).

youtu.be/1MkV4BHCBcQ

#TakomaPark council: and I don't know why the council has spent 16 Secret Sessions on a matter where a lawsuit was settled before the process began and where the council does not have supervisory responsibility for the folks involved.

#TakomaPark council: with the disclaimer in place, my understanding is that the Maryland Open Meetings Act allows closed sessions to be held in certain circumstances but never requires them to be held. The secrecy is a decision of the council.

#TakomaPark council: and now the usual disclaimer: I Am Not A Lawyer.

#TakomaPark council: including sessions devoted to other matters, there have been 26 Secret Sessions of the council elected in 2024. There have also been 57 open meetings. 31% of the council's meetings have been Secret Sessions.

#TakomaPark council: and there have been two Ultra Secret Sessions devoted to sexual harassment and the aftermath, with neither announcement in advance nor a vote to hold them.

#TakomaPark council: there have been four Super Secret Sessions devoted to sexual harassment and the aftermath, with these sessions announced in advance but no vote required to hold them.

#TakomaPark council: there have been ten Secret Sessions devoted to sexual harassment and the aftermath, with these sessions announced in advance and a vote required to hold them.

#TakomaPark council: this will be the sixteenth closed meeting devoted to sexual harassment and its aftermath; the anniversary of the first such meeting is coming up on the 23rd.

#TakomaPark council: the advertised purpose of the session is "to discuss matters related to the audit concerning the
events giving rise to the litigation known as Cooper v. City of Takoma Park."

#TakomaPark council: the agenda for tonight is available at the link below. A vote to hold a Secret Session is set for 6:30; that's all I'll be able to cover tonight.

takomaparkmd.gov/AgendaCenter...