By Adam Pagnucco. Two months ago, I reported that MCPS had used a $105,000 emergency procurement contract to hire a crisis communications contractor to help it deal with the apocalyptic…
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What Caused the WAMU Layoffs? Part Three
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By Adam Pagnucco. Part One outlined the basic financial characteristics of WAMU. Part Two explained how corporate underwriting, WAMU’s second largest revenue source, collapsed after 2019. This was partially replaced…
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What Caused the WAMU Layoffs? Part Two
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By Adam Pagnucco. What caused WAMU to implement layoffs and shut down DCist? Insights into these actions may lie in its published financial statements. Let’s get started. The chart below…
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What Caused the WAMU Layoffs? Part One
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By Adam Pagnucco. WAMU’s layoffs are the latest blow to local media coverage in the region. After an ominous email was sent to staff, the radio station announced that it…
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By Adam Pagnucco. A new poll by Public Policy Polling on Maryland’s U.S. Senate race shows Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks with 45% of the vote, former Governor Larry…
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Term Limits Money Revealed
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By Adam Pagnucco. Last January, the Committee for Better Government – which is pushing for a charter amendment reducing county executive term limits from three to two – filed a…
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By Adam Pagnucco. As a charter amendment establishing a two-term limit for county executive nears the 2024 general election ballot, County Executive Marc Elrich has asked the Montgomery County Democratic…
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Will the County Council Rescue Elrich?
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By Adam Pagnucco. Last week, when I revealed that Reardon “Sully” Sullivan’s term limits group had begun submitting ballot signatures to limit the county executive to two terms, most of…
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Stafford County Public Schools vs MCPS
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By Adam Pagnucco. MCPS’s hiring of Stafford County Public Schools Superintendent Thomas Taylor has been brewing for a while. As it became clear that Taylor was the choice, my sources…
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A Moment with Monifa
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By Adam Pagnucco. Monifa McKnight, the former MCPS superintendent who mismanaged the Beidleman scandal, hired a crisis management contractor, presided over huge legal fees, was the first Montgomery superintendent who…