By Adam Pagnucco. Let’s review what we have learned so far. Part One introduced the Housing Initiative Fund (HIF), which is the county government’s primary vehicle for funding the preservation…
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By Adam Pagnucco. In Part Two, we learned that the county’s Housing Initiative Fund (HIF) has been receiving much more money under County Executive Marc Elrich than it did during…
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How Are We Spending Housing Money? Part Two
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By Adam Pagnucco. In Part One, we explained how the county’s Housing Initiative Fund (HIF) is intended to be used to preserve and construct affordable housing. Today, we will look…
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How Are We Spending Housing Money? Part One
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By Adam Pagnucco. Affordable housing. Everyone says they want it. No one believes there is enough of it. All politicians say they will build more of it. It looms larger…
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By Adam Pagnucco. With MCPS getting a large funding increase in this year’s budget and doubts surfacing regarding its huge fund balances, use of instructional salaries money and ability to…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Montgomery County’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued a new report chronicling problems with the county government’s enforcement of its bag tax law. Specifically, the county…
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What Happened to These State Bills?
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By Adam Pagnucco. Over the last several months, I wrote about a few state bills that have since been resolved in the most recent session of the General Assembly. Let’s…
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Fact Checking Elrich, Part Two
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By Adam Pagnucco. Let’s resume evaluating Elrich’s pushback on the council over its recently passed FY24 budget. On school spending Elrich took two tracks on school spending. First, he remarked…
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Fact Checking Elrich, Part One
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By Adam Pagnucco. Despite getting 98 percent of his FY24 recommended budget funded by the county council, County Executive Marc Elrich went on the attack last week. He criticized the…
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Elrich Busts Loose
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By Adam Pagnucco. In a rip-roaring press conference on Thursday, County Executive Marc Elrich opened fire on his critics, especially those at the county council. His office sent me a…