By Adam Pagnucco. Yesterday, the campaign of Council Member Will Jawando, who is running for U.S. Senate, sent out a fundraising text. This is what it said: ***** Will is…
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Is There Depolicing in MoCo? Part Five
By Adam Pagnucco. Part One introduced the concept of depolicing. Part Two explored police data released by Montgomery County government since the late 1990s. Part Three looked at data from…
Is There Depolicing in MoCo? Part Four
By Adam Pagnucco. Part One introduced the concept of depolicing. Part Two explored police data released by Montgomery County government since the late 1990s. Part Three looked at data from…
Teachers Survey: MoCo Results
By Adam Pagnucco. Maryland Matters recently published an article on a survey conducted by the Maryland State Education Association (MSEA) of its members, most of whom are teachers. The results…
Is There Depolicing in MoCo? Part Three
By Adam Pagnucco. Part Two examined trends in arrests, traffic citations and warrants served contained in Montgomery County’s comprehensive annual financial reports (CAFRs). Now let’s look at stats supplied by…
By Adam Pagnucco. County Council Executive Director Marlene Michaelson, who was first hired by county government in 1988, has announced her retirement in an email to the council. She plans…
Is There Depolicing in MoCo? Part Two
By Adam Pagnucco. Part One introduced the concept of depolicing, which Wikipedia defines as “a term for police disengaging from active police work, generally as a reaction to external scrutiny…
Is There Depolicing in MoCo? Part One
By Adam Pagnucco. Until I started running analyses of crime data a few months ago, I had never heard the term “depolicing.” One of my sources brought it to my…
Accountability Now
By Adam Pagnucco. I hear this word over and over again. I hear it from education advocates. I hear it from labor. From elected officials. From progressives. From conservatives. And…
Landmarks of MoCo: Transformational Events
By Adam Pagnucco. In Part One, I summarized how I asked my sources to help me construct a list of important events in county history since the 1960s. Part Two…