By Adam Pagnucco. As we explained in Part One, the IRS tracks the inflow and outflow of returns, exemptions and adjusted gross income (AGI) for all states and counties. Comparable…
Economy
Exodus from MoCo, Part One
By Adam Pagnucco. Five years ago, I wrote a series on taxpayer flight from MoCo. At that time, I found that the county was losing hundreds of millions of dollars…
Elrich: County Regulators are Overloaded
By Adam Pagnucco. County Executive Marc Elrich has written a memo to the county council requesting that they hold off on voting for a pending bill. The reason? Elrich claims…
By Adam Pagnucco. The Greater Capital Area Association of Realtors (GCAAR) has released its monthly housing report for September and made an interesting finding: home listings shot up by 40%…
By Adam Pagnucco. The county council’s Office of Legislative Oversight (OLO) has submitted its economic impact statement on Council Member Will Jawando’s bill to repeal the county’s tip credit for…
By Adam Pagnucco. As I have previously written, Council Member Will Jawando has introduced a bill to eliminate the tip credit for Montgomery County’s minimum wage. The bill comes despite…
By Adam Pagnucco. Commercial office cleaners who are members of SEIU Local 32BJ plan to hold a strike vote, a rally and a march down Wisconsin Avenue in Bethesda this…
Will Kaiser Permanente Workers Strike?
By Adam Pagnucco. Kaiser Permanente is one of the largest health care providers in the Washington-Baltimore region as well as many other parts of the country. And now it looks…
By Adam Pagnucco. On July 13, the executive branch sent a report to the county council on the status of its conditional grant to Marriott. The grant dates back to…
By Adam Pagnucco. As the county council begins its debate about whether to scrap the tip credit for minimum wage, here are four facts about restaurants that must be part…