By Adam Pagnucco. Defying a cascade of warnings from the real estate industry and decades of evidence on its failures, the county council passed a permanent rent control law in…
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Trumpflation
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By Adam Pagnucco. Every one of you who pays for gas knows this: the price of gasoline has shot up since President Donald Trump launched his war on Iran in…
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MCPS’s Huge Health Care Hole
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By Adam Pagnucco. Last year, I published a startling fact: MCPS was running a $58 million deficit in its fund that pays for employee and retiree health care, an amount…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Part One described a bill by Council Member Kate Stewart that would impose substantial governance requirements on the county’s main community media organization, Montgomery Community Media (MCM). …
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By Adam Pagnucco. Part One described a bill by Council Member Kate Stewart that would impose substantial governance requirements on the county’s main community media organization, Montgomery Community Media (MCM). …
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Should the County Fund Local Media? Part Two
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By Adam Pagnucco. Part One described a bill by Council Member Kate Stewart that would impose substantial governance requirements on the county’s main community media organization, Montgomery Community Media (MCM). …
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Should the County Fund Local Media? Part One
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By Adam Pagnucco. Council Member Kate Stewart recently made news by introducing a bill that would impose new requirements on “community media organizations.” The bill provoked pushback from a number…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Reardon “Sully” Sullivan and County Executive Marc Elrich disagree on just about everything. After all, Elrich is a long-time socialist who regularly proposes tax increases whereas Sully…
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Did They Make Any Cuts?
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By Adam Pagnucco. Outrage about the county’s recent huge tax hike on most homeowners has been swirling on social media for weeks. And in the many discussions on this topic,…
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Stop the Spend Charter Amendment Fails
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By Adam Pagnucco. The Stop the Spend charter amendment, which would limit the annual growth in the county’s operating budget to the rate of inflation absent a unanimous county council…
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