By Adam Pagnucco. County Council Executive Director Marlene Michaelson, who was first hired by county government in 1988, has announced her retirement in an email to the council. She plans…
Montgomery Perspective Archive
Is There Depolicing in MoCo? Part Two
By Adam Pagnucco. Part One introduced the concept of depolicing, which Wikipedia defines as “a term for police disengaging from active police work, generally as a reaction to external scrutiny…
Is There Depolicing in MoCo? Part One
By Adam Pagnucco. Until I started running analyses of crime data a few months ago, I had never heard the term “depolicing.” One of my sources brought it to my…
Accountability Now
By Adam Pagnucco. I hear this word over and over again. I hear it from education advocates. I hear it from labor. From elected officials. From progressives. From conservatives. And…
MCDCC Releases Statement on Tax Issue
By Adam Pagnucco. The Montgomery County Democratic Central Committee (MCDCC) released a statement tonight on its tax issue with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. The issue was discussed in recent…
Landmarks of MoCo: Transformational Events
By Adam Pagnucco. In Part One, I summarized how I asked my sources to help me construct a list of important events in county history since the 1960s. Part Two…
By Adam Pagnucco. Last week, the Montgomery County Education Association (MCEA) went on the record opposing MCPS’s use of Jackson Lewis PC, which it characterizes as an “anti-worker law firm,”…
By Adam Pagnucco. In Part One, I summarized how I asked my sources to help me construct a list of important events in county history since the 1960s. Part Two…
Landmarks of MoCo: Very Important Events
By Adam Pagnucco. In Part One, I summarized how I asked my sources to help me construct a list of important events in county history since the 1960s. Part Two…
MCPS Sticks with Jackson Lewis
By Adam Pagnucco. On the same day that two county council members called for an inspector general takeover of MCPS’s investigation of allegations of sexual harassment, MCPS Board of Education…
