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…
Economy
499 Articles
499
M
MoCo Restaurants in the Pandemic, Part One
2 Min Read
2 Min Read
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,…
D
Do We Want More Housing or Not?
3 Min Read
3 Min Read
By Adam Pagnucco. Recently, former Council Member Hans Riemer published a guest column in Maryland Matters claiming that the county council had made “historic progress on housing.” There is no…
4 Min Read
Guest column by Link Hoewing, Jim Brown and Tom Kettler. Last week on December 29th, hundreds of citizens from Poolesville and the surrounding Ag Reserve in Western Montgomery County gathered…
2 Min Read
By Adam Pagnucco. PJM Interconnection, which operates the electric grid in the Mid-Atlantic region and parts of the Midwest, issued a warning on electricity use during the extremely cold days…
M
MoCo’s New Political Order
4 Min Read
4 Min Read
By Adam Pagnucco. From a historical perspective, the most remarkable thing about the passage of Thrive 2050 was not its contents, the pushback against it or its possible impact on…
W
Will MoCo Get Rent Control?
3 Min Read
3 Min Read
By Adam Pagnucco. In the wake of County Executive Marc Elrich’s inauguration speech, in which he vowed to pass rent control, it’s reasonable to ask whether the county council would…
E
Electric Building Bill Passes
1 Min Read
1 Min Read
By Adam Pagnucco. In a last-second rush during a lame duck session, the county council passed a momentous bill requiring all-electric building standards for most new construction in the county. …
W
Who Cares About Outages?
2 Min Read
2 Min Read
By Adam Pagnucco. Last night, a small plane crashed into a power transmission tower in Montgomery Village, knocking out electricity to more than 120,000 customers. The county reported that roughly…
B
BGE Issues Warning on Electrocution Bill
6 Min Read
6 Min Read
By Adam Pagnucco. Yesterday’s county council work session on Bill 13-22, known as “the electrocution bill,” featured a stark warning from BGE that should cause pause in all rational people. …