By Adam Pagnucco. Last week, County Executive Marc Elrich and a majority of county council members announced that they were introducing competing rent control bills. Whether one favors it or…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Progressives might be cheering the Prince George’s County Council’s passage of rent control yesterday, but there’s a catch: the new law has some interesting wrinkles in it. …
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Mount Rainier Passes Rent Control
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By Adam Pagnucco. In a development sure to ripple across the region, the Prince George’s County municipality of Mount Rainier has passed a rent control ordinance. Who will be next?…
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A Time for Crime, Part Four
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By Adam Pagnucco. Let’s start applying what we learned this week to the county’s newest crime initiative – the executive’s proposed legislation to crack down on late night businesses. The…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Last November, I published real estate data provided by Silver Spring broker Liz Brent showing that declining inventories of homes for sale were resulting in soaring home…
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MoCo Restaurants in the Pandemic, Part Five
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By Adam Pagnucco. During the pandemic, Montgomery County’s restaurant industry took bigger hits on employment, wages paid and net losses in number of restaurants than most other large jurisdictions in…
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MoCo Restaurants in the Pandemic, Part Four
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By Adam Pagnucco. The pandemic’s effect on the restaurant industry played out in two years for which we have data: 2020 and 2021. In 2020, the first year of the…
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MoCo Restaurants in the Pandemic, Part Three
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By Adam Pagnucco. In 2020 – possibly the worst year for U.S. restaurants since the Great Depression – Montgomery County restaurants lost employees and wages paid at about the same…
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MoCo Restaurants in the Pandemic, Part Two
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By Adam Pagnucco. Some in Montgomery County’s restaurant industry have claimed that the county’s COVID restrictions were unnecessarily harsh and inflicted more economic damage than restrictions in other parts of…
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MoCo Restaurants in the Pandemic, Part One
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By Adam Pagnucco. MoCo’s restaurant community has long had an up-and-down relationship with the county government. On the one hand, restaurant owners and managers frequently complain about issues like parking,…