By Adam Pagnucco. The staff union representing employees of CASA, the immigrant rights nonprofit based in Hyattsville, MD, has launched an online petition supporting its…
By Adam Pagnucco. Back in November 2023, I reported on a federal lawsuit filed by America First Legal on behalf of plaintiffs Matthew Foldi and…
By Adam Pagnucco. In a fire-breathing press release and an equally incendiary letter, UFCW Local 1994 MCGEO has launched an effort to defeat first-term Sheriff…
By Adam Pagnucco. Council at-large candidate Jeremiah Pope has claimed that he has qualified for public matching funds. If he’s right, it’s a mark of…
County PTA Pushes Back on MCPS NDAs
By Adam Pagnucco. Last month, I wrote about MCPS’s practice of requiring that participants in some of its stakeholder groups sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) establishing…
By Adam Pagnucco. Just imagine it. MoCo bureaucrats frolicking in an opulent palace. Amenities include a fitness center, a sauna, a hot tub, a basketball…
Will There be Regions in MCPS?
By Adam Pagnucco. I have previously discussed MCPS’s ongoing academic programs analysis, a separate analysis from the school system’s two boundary studies which is intended…
Wild Cards in the County Executive Race
By Adam Pagnucco. It’s happening a lot now. Nearly every day, someone will ask me to predict who will win next year’s county executive race. …
You Kill My Dog, I Kill Your Cat
By Adam Pagnucco. “You kill my dog, I kill your cat.” So wrote former Baltimore Sun reporter Mike Dresser fifteen years ago. Dresser was writing…
By Adam Pagnucco. Most Maryland State Senate elections involving incumbents are not really elections – they’re more like coronations. That’s because ambitious General Assembly candidates…