By Adam Pagnucco. Rising to the defense of the county’s liquor monopoly, the County Council has put forward a proposal for reform. They claim it will cure most of the…
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Del. Bill Frick Proposes to Allow Voters to Decide By Adam Pagnucco. As of this writing, over 900 people have signed the petition asking Montgomery County’s State Senators and…
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MoCo Doesn’t Need Its Liquor Money
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By Adam Pagnucco. Even though MoCo consumers are fleeing the county’s archaic liquor monopoly, county officials are going all out to save it. Their arguments boil down to essentially one…
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Fundraising in Congressional District 8
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By Adam Pagnucco. Money talks and people are talking about money. That’s the vibe in CD8, which could turn out to be the most expensive congressional race in Maryland history….
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By Adam Pagnucco. Last week, Montgomery County Council Member Hans Riemer wrote a guest blog on the reasons why county residents opposed the county’s alcohol system in a recent poll…
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MoCo Voters are Less Liberal Than You Think
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By Adam Pagnucco. Montgomery County is the home of Maryland progressivism. It was the first county in the state to ban smoking in restaurants, enact a living wage law, pass…
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By Adam Pagnucco. My reply to MCGEO President Gino Renne’s response to my post on the county’s Department of Liquor Control (DLC) concludes. The union says that if DLC were…
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By Adam Pagnucco. My reply to MCGEO President Gino Renne’s response to my post on the county’s Department of Liquor Control (DLC) continues. The union claims that state monopolies on…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Last week, MCGEO President Gino Renne, leader of the local union that represents most Montgomery County employees, responded to my post on the county’s Department of Liquor…
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Gino Renne, President of UFCW Local 1994 MCGEO, Responds to Seventh State’s Guest Blogger Adam Pagnucco on Privatization of Montgomery County’s Department of Liquor Control: Mr. Pagnucco opens his blog…