By Adam Pagnucco. The State of Maryland and Montgomery County are together offering more than $700,000 in incentives to retain Sodexo, a French food services and facility management company that…
Budget and Taxes
Office Building Owners Cry Out for Help
By Adam Pagnucco. Besieged by rising office vacancy rates, depressed leasing activity and weak sales, a group of office building owners has commissioned a report showing a pending drop in…
Is a CASA Audit Coming?
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 it could happen, at least…
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 signed a joint statement expressing…
Should CASA Get Our Tax Dollars?
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…
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…
Did MCPS Get Cut?
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…
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…
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…
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…