By Adam Pagnucco. With roughly ten weeks until early voting begins in the 2016 primary, candidates for Congress in District 8 are entering the home stretch. Three candidates are leading…
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Outside the Statehouse, Franchot is King
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By Adam Pagnucco. Senate President Mike Miller and Comptroller Peter Franchot have renewed their decade-long feud, to the delight of journalists, bloggers and pundits alike. Whether it’s about slots, tax…
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All Politics is Local . . . Right?
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By Adam Pagnucco. “All politics is local” according to the famous quote by former U.S. House Speaker Tip O’Neill. Moreover, any occasional viewer of Hardball, the MSNBC politics show featuring…
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MoCo’s Stunted Restaurant Industry
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By Adam Pagnucco. One of the dimensions to the current debate about Montgomery County’s Department of Liquor Control (DLC) that has not been empirically explored is its impact on the…
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Why the Council’s Liquor Reform Won’t Work
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By Adam Pagnucco. Rising to the defense of the county’s liquor monopoly, the County Council has put forward a proposal for reform. They claim it will cure most of the…
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Del. Bill Frick Proposes to Allow Voters to Decide By Adam Pagnucco. As of this writing, over 900 people have signed the petition asking Montgomery County’s State Senators and…
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MoCo Doesn’t Need Its Liquor Money
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By Adam Pagnucco. Even though MoCo consumers are fleeing the county’s archaic liquor monopoly, county officials are going all out to save it. Their arguments boil down to essentially one…
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Fundraising in Congressional District 8
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By Adam Pagnucco. Money talks and people are talking about money. That’s the vibe in CD8, which could turn out to be the most expensive congressional race in Maryland history….
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By Adam Pagnucco. Last week, Montgomery County Council Member Hans Riemer wrote a guest blog on the reasons why county residents opposed the county’s alcohol system in a recent poll…
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MoCo Voters are Less Liberal Than You Think
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By Adam Pagnucco. Montgomery County is the home of Maryland progressivism. It was the first county in the state to ban smoking in restaurants, enact a living wage law, pass…