By Adam Pagnucco. Part One began our transcribed account of the momentous county council discussion of MCPS’s sexual harassment scandal. Let’s resume. Superintendent Monifa McKnight contradicted the Jackson Lewis report’s…
The Police Staffing Crisis Gets Worse
By Adam Pagnucco. Last month, this site revealed plans by the Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) to reduce its presence in the cities of Gaithersburg and Rockville, which have their…
Friedson: MCPS Systems “Set Up to Fail”
By Adam Pagnucco. Earlier today, I began running a series on council questions and the answers provided by MCPS officials at yesterday’s discussion of MCPS’s sexual harassment investigation. I will…
Interrogation, Part One
By Adam Pagnucco. Yesterday, the county council’s Education and Culture Committee met to discuss MCPS’s sexual harassment scandal. With the investigation’s first phase complete (but its results not fully released),…
Your Picks in Year One, Part Two
By Adam Pagnucco. Part One started our list of the top twenty posts in our first year ranked by page views. We have previously listed posts 11-20. Today we list…
By Adam Pagnucco. Last February, Council Member Will Jawando introduced a bill to restrict the authority of county police officers to make traffic stops. Council Member Kristin Mink co-sponsored the…
Your Picks in Year One, Part One
By Adam Pagnucco. On September 27, 2022, Montgomery Perspective published its first post. Since then, almost 500 posts have followed. It’s been a tumultuous year and we have watched it…
Questions MCPS Should Answer
By Adam Pagnucco. This Thursday, the county council’s Education and Culture Committee is scheduled to discuss the initial findings of MCPS’s investigation into its sexual harassment scandal. Here are the…
Will Kaiser Permanente Workers Strike?
By Adam Pagnucco. Kaiser Permanente is one of the largest health care providers in the Washington-Baltimore region as well as many other parts of the country. And now it looks…
By Adam Pagnucco. On July 13, the executive branch sent a report to the county council on the status of its conditional grant to Marriott. The grant dates back to…