By Adam Pagnucco. “Audit.” It’s the word I hear the most now about CASA, more than “Israel,” “Hamas” or “Jews.” And now it looks like…
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By Adam Pagnucco. In the latest development in the continuing backlash against CASA’s remarks about Israel, all nine state senators who represent Montgomery County have…
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Should CASA Get Our Tax Dollars?
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…