By Adam Pagnucco. In the wake of the county council’s changes to a zoning text amendment that would allow solar panels in the agricultural reserve, the solar industry is now…
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Top Seventh State Stories, January 2021
By Adam Pagnucco. These were the top stories on Seventh State in January ranked by page views. 1. Raskin Chief of Staff Writes About Attack on the Capitol2. Are Maryland…
Can Andy Harris be Defeated?
By Adam Pagnucco. With a majority of Democratic state legislators calling on him to resign and former Delegate Heather Mizeur, now an Eastern Shore resident, announcing a run against him,…
By Adam Pagnucco. Phase 1B of the state’s COVID vaccination schedule includes “education staff, including K-12 teachers, support staff and daycare providers.” Some counties are now starting vaccinations of school…
MoCo Solar Power Company Throws in the Towel
By Adam Pagnucco. Stefano Ratti, President of Chaberton Energy, has told the county council that his firm has given up its plans to proceed with solar energy projects in Montgomery…
Mizeur Announces Run Against Harris
By Adam Pagnucco. Former Delegate Heather Mizeur has announced a run for Congress against District 1 incumbent Andy Harris. Her campaign video appears below.
By Adam Pagnucco. William A. Galston, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, has written an eye-opening piece on vaccine distribution comparing West Virginia to Maryland. In it, Galston notes…
Ashwani Jain is Running for Governor
By Adam Pagnucco. Former Obama administration official Ashwani Jain is running for governor. A resident of Potomac, Jain ran for Montgomery County Council At-Large in 2018 and finished eighth in…
Don’t Mess With the Real Deal
By Adam Pagnucco. In January 2014, District 1 County Council Member Roger Berliner posted a cash balance of $52,369 in his campaign finance report. Over the prior year, he had…
MoCo’s Hero
By Adam Pagnucco. We are living in historic times. After the sack of the U.S. Capitol, America approaches a day of reckoning with the only president to incite an insurrection…