By Adam Pagnucco. Moody’s Investors Service, one of the three major Wall Street bond rating agencies, has released an issuer comment characterizing the passage of Question A as a “credit…
MoCo’s Bad Bailout Bet
By Adam Pagnucco. There are a lot of reasons to pay attention to the races for president and Congress: social justice, climate change, the pandemic, the economy, the fate of…
How Many More Votes Will be Counted?
By Adam Pagnucco. As of right now, here is the status of key election results in MoCo. School Board At-Large: Lynne Harris 53%, Sunil Dasgupta 46% School Board District 2:…
Early Results on MoCo Races
By Adam Pagnucco. The first batch of votes on MoCo races has been reported. This is VERY early and VERY incomplete. So far, the reports include only early votes and…
Top Seventh State Stories, October 2020
By Adam Pagnucco. These were the top stories on Seventh State in October ranked by page views. 1. MoCo Democrats Issue Statement on Ballot Questions2. Sitting Judges Get Temporary Restraining…
Once Again, MoCo’s Two Electorates
By Adam Pagnucco. In November 2016, I wrote a three-part series called MoCo’s Two Electorates. (Here are the links to Part One, Part Two and Part Three.) I also wrote…
By Adam Pagnucco. This year saw one of the most contentious school board primaries in recent county history. With incumbent at-large school board member Jeanette Dixon announcing her retirement, a…
By Adam Pagnucco. At the national level, the big questions are who will control the presidency and the Congress. At the county level, the big question is which (if any)…
Pierre Responds to Sitting Judges
By Adam Pagnucco. Yesterday, the sitting judges slate filed for and were granted a temporary restraining order against the campaign of their opponent, Marylin Pierre, after they alleged that one…
By Adam Pagnucco. As I have previously written, MoCo government is in the throes of a dire budget crisis that rivals the near-death experience it suffered during the Great Recession….