By Adam Pagnucco.

Below are the top ten stories on Montgomery Perspective in August 2024, ranked by page views.

1. MCPS Reports More Than 4,000 “Serious Incidents” at Schools Last Year

2. MoCo Most Influential 2024, Part Two

3. MoCo Most Influential 2024, Part Seven

4. MoCo Most Influential 2024, Part Three

5. MoCo Most Influential 2024, Part Five

6. MoCo Most Influential 2024, Part One

7. MoCo Most Influential 2024, Part Six

8. MoCo Most Influential 2024, Part Four

9. MoCo Most Influential 2024, Part Eight

10. MoCo Most Influential 2024, Part Ten

With the exception of one MCPS story (because of course, it’s MCPS), August was dominated by our Most Influential series.  For comparison, check out what this list looked like when we did it in 2008, 2009 and 2020.

These are the people who made all four lists:

Marc Elrich

Brian Feldman

Rich Madaleno

Adam Pagnucco

Jamie Raskin

Gino Renne

Chris Van Hollen

These people made three out of four:

Kumar Barve

Peter Franchot

Ike Leggett

Gustavo Torres

I don’t know if these lists mean anything, but they get a lot of eyeballs and they’re fun to read!

I have had suggestions for other lists.  A perpetual one is a “least influential” list.  That would be pretty mean to any elected officials who appear on it.  As for non-elected people, I would have to finish first.  After all, if I had any juice around here, we would not have rent control!

Enough with the lists.  On to September!