By Adam Pagnucco. In making the case for Bill 29-20, which would grant developers at Metro stations 15-year property tax breaks, supporters claim that Metro high-rise development is not currently…
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Smart Growth or Corporate Welfare? Part One
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By Adam Pagnucco. For many years, MoCo has focused its land use and economic development policies on transit-oriented development. Since 2006, the county has adopted eight master plans centered on…
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Poll Out on Ballot Questions
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By Adam Pagnucco. A poll is in the field on MoCo’s ballot questions, much of it focused on Question B (Robin Ficker’s charter amendment on property taxes). The sponsor of…
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How Not to Restructure Government
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By Adam Pagnucco. Dear readers, let’s consider the following sequence of events. 2018: County executive candidate Marc Elrich campaigns on a platform of restructuring government. Elrich writes in the Washington…
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By Adam Pagnucco. In an open meeting tomorrow, the county council will consider placing two charter amendments limiting property taxes on the ballot along with an amendment by Robin Ficker,…
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MoCo is Praying for a Federal Bailout
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By Adam Pagnucco. The COVID cuts have begun. County Executive Marc Elrich has sent a mid-year savings plan to the county council, which has tweaked it and given it tentative…
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By Adam Pagnucco. A document written by a special assistant to County Executive Marc Elrich lays out the administration’s views on the county’s charter limit on property taxes. And its…
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By Adam Pagnucco. You heard that deafening noise, yeah? It came from Rockville, specifically from Monroe Street. It was the sound of the county budget being blown to smithereens. And…
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Hogan’s Shift and Shaft
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By Adam Pagnucco. In a long-expected move, Governor Larry Hogan has submitted a long list of state budget cuts to the Board of Public Works. Cuts to state employee salaries…
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Elrich Asks MCPS for Cuts
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By Adam Pagnucco. In a memo to Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) Superintendent Jack Smith, County Executive Marc Elrich is asking MCPS to make operating budget cuts along with the…