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…
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Fani-González’s General Election Mailer
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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…
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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…
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Sully’s New Mailer
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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…
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Which Schools Will Close? Part One
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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…
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Yang Runs Against Trump
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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…
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Guest column by Peter Fosselman. As the County Council considers Bill 41-26—a proposal that would remove the owner‑occupancy requirement for Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs)— it is worth pausing to reflect…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Inspector General Megan Davey Limarzi has issued a new report finding several problems inside the county’s Recreation Department (REC). Specifically, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) found:…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Defying a cascade of warnings from the real estate industry and decades of evidence on its failures, the county council passed a permanent rent control law in…
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Is MCPS Losing Students to Private Schools?
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By Adam Pagnucco. MCPS blames a lot of its continuing enrollment drop on declining births in MoCo. However, that’s only part of what is impacting the district’s enrollment. Because while…
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