By Adam Pagnucco. On Friday, County Executive Marc Elrich issued the first veto of his administration against a bill by the county council offering 15-year…
Seventh State Archive
Elrich Vetoes WMATA Property Tax Bill
By Adam Pagnucco. County Executive Marc Elrich has vetoed Bill 29-20, which would grant high-rise developers on Metro station projects payments in lieu of taxes…
Chamber to Executive: Get the Money Out Now
By Adam Pagnucco. The Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce has issued the following statement on the county’s pace of distributing federal COVID assistance. ***** Montgomery…
By Adam Pagnucco. In the wake of the county council’s nuclear annihilation of the county’s federal COVID grant management, MCM carried this quote from County…
Council Nukes Elrich Over COVID Grants
By Adam Pagnucco. Here are two things that almost everyone inside and outside of county government will agree on. The needs of residents and businesses…
Friedson Floors Ficker on Taxes
By Adam Pagnucco. Friends of White Flint made a huge score last week when they landed the heavyweight battle of the year, at least for…
Time to Get Control of the Budget
By Adam Pagnucco. Back in July, I wrote a post about the county budget titled “Crash!” The post discussed the county’s revenue writedown of $522…
By Adam Pagnucco. The six committees formed to advocate for and against MoCo’s ballot questions have filed campaign finance reports through October 4. Let’s see…
New Ad Supports Question A
By Adam Pagnucco. Montgomery Countians for Question A & Against Question B, a ballot issue committee headed by David Blair, has announced its first ad….
By Adam Pagnucco. The state’s Office of Legislative Audits (OLA), which is part of the General Assembly’s Department of Legislative Services, is one of the…