By Adam Pagnucco. MCPS’s boundary studies in the vicinities of the new Woodward High School in North Bethesda and the new Crown High School in Gaithersburg are stoking massive controversy…
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Top Stories: May 2025
By Adam Pagnucco. Below are the top ten stories on Montgomery Perspective in May 2025, ranked by page views. 1. MCPS’s Insane Boundary Maps 2. Kensington: Ground Zero for the…
By Adam Pagnucco. As I reported earlier, UNITE HERE Local 25 – which represents hotel, restaurant and casino employees in the Washington region – has launched a boycott of the…
By Adam Pagnucco. In my column on MCPS’s Crown HS vicinity boundary maps, I wrote this: Wayside Elementary School in Potomac currently feeds into Churchill HS, one of MCPS’s most…
By Adam Pagnucco. MCPS’s two boundary studies in the Woodward and Crown/Damascus vicinities are making big waves in the community. But here’s a question yet to surface: How will this…
More Wild MCPS Boundary Maps
By Adam Pagnucco. In the wake of its calamitous release of boundary map options for the vicinity of Charles W. Woodward High School, MCPS has now released high school and…
By Adam Pagnucco. Update: This post now includes a response from Council Member Laurie-Anne Sayles. Recently, I reported that UNITE HERE Local 25, which represents hotel, restaurant and casino employees,…
By Adam Pagnucco. As expected, the Trump administration has released a list of “sanctuary” jurisdictions that it claims violate federal immigration law and Montgomery County is on it. (MoCo has…
MCPS Responds on NDAs
By Adam Pagnucco. On Tuesday, I wrote about MCPS’s practice of requiring some stakeholders who participate in its activities to sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). While there are differences in the…
Baltimore Banner is Coming to MoCo
By Adam Pagnucco. It’s happening, folks: the Baltimore Banner has announced that it is expanding to cover Montgomery County. We have seen this coming for a while. In March, I…