By Adam Pagnucco. County Executive Marc Elrich has nominated outgoing Council Member Gabe Albornoz as director of the county’s recreation department. Albornoz previously had that job during all of County…
Montgomery Perspective Archive
Taylor’s Huge Capital Ask, Part Four
By Adam Pagnucco. Part One examined Superintendent Thomas Taylor’s rationale for his huge capital budget ask. Part Two quantified huge in historical terms. Part Three looked at the details of…
Taylor’s Huge Capital Ask, Part Three
By Adam Pagnucco. Part One examined Superintendent Thomas Taylor’s rationale for his huge capital budget ask. Part Two quantified huge in historical terms. (Yes, it’s huge, folks.) Now let’s look…
By Adam Pagnucco. Council Member Gabe Albornoz has announced that he will be leaving the county council on December 1. This news is no surprise considering that he recently announced…
Taylor’s Huge Capital Ask, Part Two
By Adam Pagnucco. MCPS Superintendent Thomas Taylor has made a huge ask in his new recommended six-year capital budget. How big is it? And what’s in it? Let’s see for…
Taylor’s Huge Capital Ask, Part One
By Adam Pagnucco. MCPS Superintendent Thomas Taylor doesn’t believe in small things. Just look at his first recommended operating budget, which asked for one of the largest increases in MCPS…
By Adam Pagnucco. Confronted with overwhelming evidence of a collapse in multifamily housing production after passage of the county’s new rent control law, Council Member Kristin Mink – one of…
Be Careful with Early Polls
By Adam Pagnucco. Here is the kind of conversation I hate. Political source: “OMG. Have you heard the rumor?” Me: “I hear lots of rumors, including a really juicy one…
Target: Acevero
By Adam Pagnucco. Three District 39 state legislators are teaming up with a sitting Gaithersburg City Council Member on a high-stakes mission. Their goal: take out Delegate Gabe Acevero. Inside…
How Progressives Could Seize Control of MoCo
By Adam Pagnucco. MoCo isn’t that big on slate politics. Sure, we have loose coalitions of lefties and (relative) moderates. And in the past, we have had groups of pro-growth…