By Adam Pagnucco. It’s Sunday afternoon. Junior wants something. He wants it soooooo bad. He begs his parents to get it. Dad, who is busy watching the Nats tied with…
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They Have Been Warned Again
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By Adam Pagnucco. Last week, I published a post titled They Were Warned explaining how the county council was told by their own staff a year ago that the executive’s…
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They Were Warned
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By Adam Pagnucco. The road to this year’s massive tax hike proposal is a long one, paved with years of unsustainable spending. That’s not on the six brand new county…
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Realtors Launch Campaign to Stop Tax Hike
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By Adam Pagnucco. The Greater Capital Area Association of Realtors (GCAAR) has started an advocacy campaign to oppose County Executive Marc Elrich’s ten percent property tax hike. Yesterday afternoon, GCAAR…
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Pay the Teachers, Part Five
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By Adam Pagnucco. As the public considers the county executive’s request for a ten percent property tax hike to benefit MCPS, it’s time to review the last time a tax…
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By Adam Pagnucco. The Greater Capital Area Association of Realtors (GCAAR) has issued a statement claiming that the recordation tax increase proposed by Council Members Kristin Mink and Will Jawando…
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Pay the Teachers, Part Four
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By Adam Pagnucco. Part Three explained how MCPS transfers teacher salary money towards other spending almost every year. And that’s not just on MCPS – the county council has approved…
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Pay the Teachers, Part Three
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By Adam Pagnucco. In Part Two, we found out that MCPS’s actual spending on instructional salaries regularly falls short of its appropriations. What happens to this money? It turns out…
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Pay the Teachers, Part Two
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By Adam Pagnucco. In Part One, we examined the basics on MCPS’s operating budget in preparation for answering one question: what happens to teacher salary money after it is approved? …
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Pay the Teachers, Part One
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By Adam Pagnucco. County Executive Marc Elrich and the school board are marketing his 10 percent property tax increase on the notion that it is intended to finance higher teacher…