I Hate Politics Podcast

I Hate Politics Podcast

Exploring a human activity we love to hate. A podcast about politics close to our home, schools, streets, businesses, and local government. Hosted by Sunil Dasgupta. More at ihppod.org.

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October 28, 2025 • 26 mins

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The City of Gaithersburg in Montgomery County, MD, is holding elections November 4. Two candidates are running for mayor: incumbent Jud Ashman and challenger Tiffany Kelly. In accompanying dou...

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October 24, 2025 • 30 mins

The City of Gaithersburg in Montgomery County, MD, is holding elections November 4. Two candidates are running for mayor: incumbent Jud Ashman and challenger Tiffany Kelly. In accompanying dou...

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Montgomery County Public Schools in MD proposes a whopping 6-year $2.7 billion capital plan that includes a countywide elementary school boundary study as enrollment numbers head downward. A s...

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October 17, 2025 • 34 mins

College admissions season is here and to help you to through the home stretch, think through the dilemmas of whether your child should go test optional or submit score, the difference between ...

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An 11-year old on a bike coming home after school dies in a collision with a MCPS school bus. We look at how pede...

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October 10, 2025 • 32 mins

The Conowingo Dam in northern Maryland is the state's largest hydroelectric project and the Susquehanna River it ...

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Gov Moore says MD will continue federal assistance programs. MCPS' only charter school, Mecca Business Learning I...

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October 3, 2025 • 41 mins

Montgomery County Public Schools is proposing to expand its magnet programs to build on a pedagogical method seen...

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MD Board of Revenue Estimates issues surprisingly strong tax outlook, but state leaders highlight caution. DC Cou...

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School construction money is never enough and Maryland has reported 80 percent of its school buildings are unreli...

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The 7-state Chesapeake Bay Watershed agreement is up for renewal, but environmental activists are unhappy with th...

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MCPS is reorganizing its high school specialty programs, ending countywide recruitment for its marquee magnets, and introducing 30 separate programs and 84 pathways across 6 regions. Sunil Das...

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School district security chief Marcus Jones on swatting. Eyewitness accounts of ICE action near Eastern Middle Sc...

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September 12, 2025 • 33 mins

As the fall local government budget season comes up, Sunil Dasgupta talks with author Celina Su, professor of pol...

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Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser and Attorney General Brian Schwalb have responded differently to the Trump take...

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September 5, 2025 • 42 mins

Charlie Stephenson, 21, of Alexandria, Va, died by suicide while at college in Fort Worth, Tx, in July 2022. His ...

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A Trump-appointed federal judge dismisses the Administration's lawsuit against the entire bench of the federal Di...

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August 29, 2025 • 30 mins

The USDA has been promoting its "Stomp It" campaign for some years now to try to control the spread of the invasi...

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MCPS communications chief and CTO on outreach platforms as schools reopen. How to think about the magnet program changes proposed last week ( Read more


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