By Adam Pagnucco. In Part One, I laid out a framework for determining which elementary schools might be targeted for closure. That framework included projected capacity utilization in the 2032-33…
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Which Schools Will Close? Part One
By Adam Pagnucco. It’s the question being asked throughout MCPS’s vast stakeholder community: which schools will close? That question is top of mind because of MCPS’s current process to consider…
By Adam Pagnucco. Inspector General Megan Davey Limarzi has issued a new report finding several problems inside the county’s Recreation Department (REC). Specifically, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) found:…
By Adam Pagnucco. Defying a cascade of warnings from the real estate industry and decades of evidence on its failures, the county council passed a permanent rent control law in…
Is MCPS Losing Students to Private Schools?
By Adam Pagnucco. MCPS blames a lot of its continuing enrollment drop on declining births in MoCo. However, that’s only part of what is impacting the district’s enrollment. Because while…
Do You Want to Work for Jawando?
By Adam Pagnucco. Council Member Will Jawando, the Democratic nominee for county executive, is not yet ensconced on the second floor of the executive office building. That’s not stopping him…
Trumpflation
By Adam Pagnucco. Every one of you who pays for gas knows this: the price of gasoline has shot up since President Donald Trump launched his war on Iran in…
Should Maryland Resurrect Pterodactyls?
By Adam Pagnucco. State Question 3, which would amend the state’s constitution to overturn a judicial decision on Maryland congressional district boundaries, is the top priority of Maryland’s Democratic Party. …
By Adam Pagnucco. Imagine holding a high profile event with thousands of attendees and seeking insurance coverage. Then, with less than a month to go, your insurance broker tells you…
MCPS’s Huge Health Care Hole
By Adam Pagnucco. Last year, I published a startling fact: MCPS was running a $58 million deficit in its fund that pays for employee and retiree health care, an amount…
