By Adam Pagnucco. The pandemic’s effect on the restaurant industry played out in two years for which we have data: 2020 and 2021. In 2020, the first year of the…
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By Adam Pagnucco. The Democratic Party is a diverse organization in many, many ways but one of its core beliefs is support for free and fair elections. Indeed, one can…
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MoCo Restaurants in the Pandemic, Part Three
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By Adam Pagnucco. In 2020 – possibly the worst year for U.S. restaurants since the Great Depression – Montgomery County restaurants lost employees and wages paid at about the same…
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Senator Ariana
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By Adam Pagnucco. The title of this post is what you will soon be calling Delegate Ariana Kelly (D-16), who has announced that she is seeking the State Senate seat…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Few people other than central committee members like the current process of appointments for state legislative vacancies. Most folks who contact me about this prefer special elections,…
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MoCo Restaurants in the Pandemic, Part Two
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By Adam Pagnucco. Some in Montgomery County’s restaurant industry have claimed that the county’s COVID restrictions were unnecessarily harsh and inflicted more economic damage than restrictions in other parts of…
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MoCo Restaurants in the Pandemic, Part One
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By Adam Pagnucco. MoCo’s restaurant community has long had an up-and-down relationship with the county government. On the one hand, restaurant owners and managers frequently complain about issues like parking,…
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Is This Public Funding of Advocacy?
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By Adam Pagnucco. In 2019, the county council passed legislation to establish the Policing Advisory Commission (PAC), which is charged with advising the council on policing issues. The commission is…
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Do We Want More Housing or Not?
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By Adam Pagnucco. Recently, former Council Member Hans Riemer published a guest column in Maryland Matters claiming that the county council had made “historic progress on housing.” There is no…
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Ranked Choice Voting, Part Four
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By Adam Pagnucco. Compared to traditional elections, ranked choice voting (RCV) produces different outcomes only two percent of the time. That’s because most elections in which RCV is an option…