By Adam Pagnucco. County Executive Marc Elrich has been unusually quiet about the recent issues with the planning board. Let’s remember that the planning board is not in the executive…
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Entire Planning Board Resigns
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By Adam Pagnucco. The Montgomery County Council has obtained the resignation of all five members of the planning board. I will have more to say about this soon, but for…
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All About Race: O’Malley vs Brown in MoCo
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By Adam Pagnucco. O’Malley vs Brown. It has an odd ring to it, yeah? After all, for eight years, we heard lots about the O’Malley-Brown administration in Annapolis. And when…
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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…