By Adam Pagnucco. Like you, I have seen a lot of political mail in my time. Some of it tells the truth, some of it stretches the truth and some…
MCPS Claims Major Gains
By Adam Pagnucco. MCPS is claiming major gains in school performance under the state’s star rating system, which rates schools from 1 to 5 stars based on how they fare…
By Adam Pagnucco. The county council’s pending tax credit bill for MCPS employees has a price tag currently projected at $25-30 million a year. That’s a fiscal challenge because the…
Another Pro-State Question 3 Mailer
By Adam Pagnucco. Fight Back MD, a ballot issue committee primarily funded by the AFSCME Working Families Fund, has sent out a new mailer advocating for the passage of State…
By Adam Pagnucco. Last spring, the county council passed a gimmick-ridden, Kicking the Can operating budget that spawned a $293 million structural deficit for next year. Later, a county fiscal…
Fani-González’s General Election Mailer
By Adam Pagnucco. Council President Natali Fani-González is one of the few local Democratic candidates who is sending out general election mail. (I previously printed a mailer by Council District…
By Adam Pagnucco. In Part One, I laid out a framework for determining which elementary schools might be targeted for closure. That framework included projected capacity utilization in the 2032-33…
Sully’s New Mailer
By Adam Pagnucco. Despite running inside the Democratic Crescent, the deep blue area that sent Jamie Raskin to Congress, Republican Council District 1 candidate Reardon “Sully” Sullivan is doing what…
Which Schools Will Close? Part One
By Adam Pagnucco. It’s the question being asked throughout MCPS’s vast stakeholder community: which schools will close? That question is top of mind because of MCPS’s current process to consider…
Yang Runs Against Trump
By Adam Pagnucco. Council District 1 Democratic nominee Julie Yang is running a Facebook ad urging voters to send President Donald Trump a message by voting for her. I doubt…
