By Adam Pagnucco. Last summer, I revealed that the U.S. Census Bureau had been publishing inaccurate data on Montgomery County building permits for years. That caused concern in parts of…
Economy
State and County Pay to Retain Sodexo
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…
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…
Exodus from MoCo, Part Seven
By Adam Pagnucco. Montgomery County has suffered a net exodus of taxpayer income over the years. We are not alone as most other jurisdictions in the region have also experienced…
By Adam Pagnucco. A new bill by Council Member Will Jawando would mandate the provision of menstrual products in most public restrooms in the county. The bill is known as…
A Big Win for MoCo
By Adam Pagnucco. The news that the U.S. General Services Administration chose Greenbelt as the site for the new FBI headquarters provoked celebrations in Prince George’s County and Annapolis –…
Exodus from MoCo, Part Six
By Adam Pagnucco. This series has looked at the exodus of taxpayer income from Montgomery County in recent years. But it turns out that we are not the only jurisdiction…
Exodus from MoCo, Part Five
By Adam Pagnucco. In Part Four, we looked at four jurisdictions – the District of Columbia, Arlington, Alexandria and Prince George’s – from whom Montgomery County has gained real adjusted…
Exodus from MoCo, Part Four
By Adam Pagnucco. In Part Three, we explored Montgomery County’s loss of taxpayer income to the rest of Maryland, other states and foreign locations. Today, we will start naming the…
Exodus from MoCo, Part Three
By Adam Pagnucco. Part Two revealed that Montgomery County has long suffered net out-migration of tax returns and real adjusted gross income (AGI) with those trends intensifying in the last…