By Adam Pagnucco. Planning Board Member Partap Verma, who sent an email to the county council last week accusing Planning Board Chair Casey Anderson of creating a “toxic, misogynistic and…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Infighting, leaks and purge politics at the planning board have created a crisis at Park and Planning. Planning board members are accountable to one body, the county…
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They Must Go
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By Adam Pagnucco. In evaluating the flaming hell-pit otherwise known as the Montgomery County Planning Board, let’s start with this central truth. It’s not about liquor. It was never about…
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Upcounty’s Battle of the Women
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By Adam Pagnucco. In the old days, most of Upcounty was contained in County Council District 2, which hugged the Frederick and Howard county borders in a rough tilted C. …
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Trone’s Tattoo Ad
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By Adam Pagnucco. Congressman David Trone has launched a scorching TV ad blasting his challenger, Delegate Neil Parrott, over a letter to the editor he once wrote proposing that HIV…
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Balcombe’s Comeback
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By Adam Pagnuccco. MoCo political history is full of strong female candidates who run once, lose respectably and never run again. Recent examples include Becky Wagner (2010 council at-large), Beth…
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The Blowouts
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By Adam Pagnucco. Just like in 2014, every single Montgomery County incumbent at the state and county levels who ran for reelection to his or her current office won. In…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Most readers of this site live in Montgomery County, as do I, and I bet a big majority of us think this is a good place to…
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Democratic Turnout, 2022 Primary: Part Two
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By Adam Pagnucco. Part One examined differences between communities in their turnout rate, something that should not surprise any political insiders in MoCo. Now let’s look at a more recent…
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Democratic Turnout, 2022 Primary: Part One
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By Adam Pagnucco. Any analysis of election results must start with turnout. Who voted? If you know that, then you have a head start on deciphering who won – and…