By Adam Pagnucco. In the years when Montgomery County had just five county council districts, East County (defined here as the areas around Route 29 and New Hampshire Avenue) did…
By Adam Pagnucco. DC News Now interviewed County Council Vice-President Evan Glass and I on recent events at the planning board. The article appears here and the video appears below.
The Tuesday Night Massacre
By Adam Pagnucco. The Montgomery County Council’s mass removal of the planning board was an unusual event though not a totally unprecedented one. It will go down in history as…
By Adam Pagnucco. County Executive Marc Elrich has been unusually quiet about the recent issues with the planning board. Let’s remember that the planning board is not in the executive…
Entire Planning Board Resigns
By Adam Pagnucco. The Montgomery County Council has obtained the resignation of all five members of the planning board. I will have more to say about this soon, but for…
All About Race: O’Malley vs Brown in MoCo
By Adam Pagnucco. O’Malley vs Brown. It has an odd ring to it, yeah? After all, for eight years, we heard lots about the O’Malley-Brown administration in Annapolis. And when…
By Adam Pagnucco. Planning Board Member Partap Verma, who sent an email to the county council last week accusing Planning Board Chair Casey Anderson of creating a “toxic, misogynistic and…
By Adam Pagnucco. The Sierra Club’s Maryland Chapter, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Friends of Moses Hall have announced that they are suing…
By Adam Pagnucco. Infighting, leaks and purge politics at the planning board have created a crisis at Park and Planning. Planning board members are accountable to one body, the county…
They Must Go
By Adam Pagnucco. In evaluating the flaming hell-pit otherwise known as the Montgomery County Planning Board, let’s start with this central truth. It’s not about liquor. It was never about…
