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A Cottage City woman who lived just off Route 1, neighboring Brentwood and Mount Rainier, invented the game that eventually was marketed as Monopoly, but her contribution was covered up for decades. Continue reading

Hyattsville’s 122-year-old idea is back in the news. Back in 1892, Hyattsville garnered worldwide attention for a short-lived experiment in taxing only land, and not buildings. The land tax, or “single tax,” was based on an economic theory that taxing … Continue reading

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