By Adam Pagnucco. Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of non-profits (aside from labor unions) that interact with state and local governments. There are non-profit service providers. They stick to…
Budget and Taxes
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By Adam Pagnucco. In the wake of last spring’s 4.7% property tax hike, which was levied in part to fund a big budget increase for MCPS, the school system is…
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Did MCPS Get Cut?
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By Adam Pagnucco. Shortly after the county council passed a 4.7% property tax increase in part for the purpose of funding their budget, the school board gathered for an apocalyptic…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Montgomery County Inspector General Megan Davey Limarzi has issued a new report detailing how the county’s Department of Permitting Services (DPS) attempted to implement a new enterprise…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Last spring, MoCo taxpayers witnessed a spectacle they had not seen in years: an open battle over the school budget pitting the county council against the school…
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By Adam Pagnucco. The first bill has come due for the county’s new rent control law, and it will be paid by the taxpayers. That’s because County Executive Marc Elrich…
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Are They School Systems? Or Banks?
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By Adam Pagnucco. In my five-part series on teacher salaries and my dissection of MCPS’s fund balance, I have studied the growing surpluses available to MCPS management. But it turns…
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Landmarks of MoCo: Significant Events
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By Adam Pagnucco. In Part One, I summarized how I asked my sources to help me construct a list of important events in county history since the 1960s. Part Two…
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Landmarks of MoCo: Honorable Mention
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By Adam Pagnucco. In the introduction, I explained the methodology my panel of historians and I used to compile a list of the most important events in MoCo history since…
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Here is An Analysis I Want to See
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By Adam Pagnucco. In a recent post on the real estate industry, I wrote the following: One of the principal flaws of policy making in MoCo government is that individual…