Guest column by Adam Van Grack, Rockville City Councilmember. Montgomery County became one of the nation’s most successful communities because previous leaders planned ahead. Our County’s past leaders (such as…
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Mission Accomplished?
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Guest column by Gaithersburg City Council Member and council at-large candidate Jim McNulty. In May of 2003, then-President George W. Bush famously (or infamously?) landed on the aircraft carrier USS…
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A Culture of Denial
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By Adam Pagnucco. I was a chief of staff at the county council from 2010 through 2014. Here is one thing I noticed about county government: there was a ton…
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Why Don’t We Have the Money?
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By Adam Pagnucco. In response to MCPS’s gigantic capital budget request, much of which made it into County Executive Marc Elrich’s recommended budget, Council President Natali Fani-Gonzalez did something that…
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MoCo vs the Region: Is MoCo Keeping Up?
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By Adam Pagnucco. Part One covered the methodology of this series. Part Two covered total employment. Part Three examined private employment. Part Four looked at establishments. Part Five looked at…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Part One covered the methodology of this series. Part Two covered total employment. Part Three examined private employment. Part Four looked at establishments. Part Five looked at…
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By Adam Pagnucco. As I have previously written, after Montgomery County’s rent control law took effect in 2024, multifamily residential permits collapsed. This was a nearly unique event in the…
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By Adam Pagnucco. A new survey by the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) has found that an overwhelming majority of apartment firm CEOs say they have cut back investment in…
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Council Staff Warns on Dire Economy
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By Adam Pagnucco. In a recent budget memo, the county council’s central staff warned the council about mounting trouble in the county’s economy. That trouble is now spilling over into…
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By Adam Pagnucco. We have previously seen how the county’s disastrous experiment with rent control has caused a 96% collapse in multifamily residential permits, nearly destroying the county’s ability to…
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