By Adam Pagnucco. Montgomery County’s charter prohibits long-term debt from being used to finance current operating expenses, meaning that current annual operating budgets must be balanced. However, the charter says…
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How is Elrich Spending the Money?
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By Adam Pagnucco. County Executive Marc Elrich released his recommended FY25 operating budget on March 14. That same day, I published my first impressions of his budget, which were: No…
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Top Stories: March 2024
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By Adam Pagnucco. Below are the top ten stories on Montgomery Perspective in March 2024, ranked by page views. 1. What MCPS Employees Think About Their Schools, Part Five 2….
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By Adam Pagnucco. Yesterday afternoon, the county’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a memorandum finding that that Sargent Shriver Elementary School violated MCPS policy when it transferred grant funds…
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Delaney Replaces Campaign Manager
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By Adam Pagnucco. Congressional District 6 candidate April McClain Delaney has replaced her campaign manager. This morning, her campaign sent me the following statement. ***** Last week, Isaac Rappoport transitioned…
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MCPS’s Crisis Management Contractor
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By Adam Pagnucco. Back in October, MCPS was in the throes of the Joel Beidleman scandal, in which allegations of sexual harassment against a principal led to the fall of…
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Will Rockville Pass Rent Control?
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By Adam Pagnucco. The rent control law passed by the Montgomery County Council last year has an important exception: it does not necessarily cover municipalities. The county has nineteen municipalities,…
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Alsobrooks and Trone Agree: Trone Leads
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By Adam Pagnucco. With roughly six weeks to go until the primary, here is one thing on which Congressman David Trone and Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks apparently agree:…
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By Adam Pagnucco. MCPS has been regarded as one of the best school systems in Maryland, and much of the nation, for a long time. But shocking stats on college…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Previously, I introduced this series and asked the candidates about what they believed was MCPS’s biggest problem, their experience with budgets, their opinions on the incumbents, their…