By Adam Pagnucco. Maryland Matters recently published an article on a survey conducted by the Maryland State Education Association (MSEA) of its members, most of whom are teachers. The results…
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Is There Depolicing in MoCo? Part Three
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By Adam Pagnucco. Part Two examined trends in arrests, traffic citations and warrants served contained in Montgomery County’s comprehensive annual financial reports (CAFRs). Now let’s look at stats supplied by…
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By Adam Pagnucco. In a letter dated today, Board of Education President Karla Silvestre updated the county council’s Education and Culture Committee (Will Jawando, Gabe Albornoz and Kristin Mink) on…
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By Adam Pagnucco. County Council Executive Director Marlene Michaelson, who was first hired by county government in 1988, has announced her retirement in an email to the council. She plans…
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Is There Depolicing in MoCo? Part Two
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By Adam Pagnucco. Part One introduced the concept of depolicing, which Wikipedia defines as “a term for police disengaging from active police work, generally as a reaction to external scrutiny…
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Is There Depolicing in MoCo? Part One
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By Adam Pagnucco. Until I started running analyses of crime data a few months ago, I had never heard the term “depolicing.” One of my sources brought it to my…
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Accountability Now
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By Adam Pagnucco. I hear this word over and over again. I hear it from education advocates. I hear it from labor. From elected officials. From progressives. From conservatives. And…
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MCDCC Releases Statement on Tax Issue
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By Adam Pagnucco. The Montgomery County Democratic Central Committee (MCDCC) released a statement tonight on its tax issue with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. The issue was discussed in recent…
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Landmarks of MoCo: Transformational Events
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By Adam Pagnucco. In Part One, I summarized how I asked my sources to help me construct a list of important events in county history since the 1960s. Part Two…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Last week, the Montgomery County Education Association (MCEA) went on the record opposing MCPS’s use of Jackson Lewis PC, which it characterizes as an “anti-worker law firm,”…