By Adam Pagnucco. Montgomery County Inspector General Megan Davey Limarzi has issued a new report detailing how the county’s Department of Permitting Services (DPS) attempted to implement a new enterprise…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Last spring, MoCo taxpayers witnessed a spectacle they had not seen in years: an open battle over the school budget pitting the county council against the school…
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A War for MCPS? Part One
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By Adam Pagnucco. It’s early 2027 and the new five-member school board majority gets down to work. LGBTQ+ curriculum materials are withdrawn. The system’s racial equity policies are scrapped as…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Minutes ago, the Board of Education released a statement on a sexual harassment report prepared by its contracted law firm, Jackson Lewis PC. While the board has…
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Top Stories: August 2023
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By Adam Pagnucco. Below are the top ten stories on Montgomery Perspective in August 2023, ranked by page views. 1. Jawando Takes Money from Anti-Union Law Firm 2. Luedtke and…
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By Adam Pagnucco. The first bill has come due for the county’s new rent control law, and it will be paid by the taxpayers. That’s because County Executive Marc Elrich…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Earlier today, I wrote about how the Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) was handing off calls for service in the Rockville and Gaithersburg municipalities to city police…
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By Adam Pagnucco. The Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) is planning to reduce its response to service calls in the cities of Rockville and Gaithersburg. The change has been described…
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Are They School Systems? Or Banks?
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By Adam Pagnucco. In my five-part series on teacher salaries and my dissection of MCPS’s fund balance, I have studied the growing surpluses available to MCPS management. But it turns…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Denizens Brewing Company, one of the pioneers of craft brewing in Montgomery County, is closing its facility in Silver Spring. Before it opened, Denizens was able to…