By Adam Pagnucco. With the county’s rent control legislation expected to receive a council vote today, let’s recap what we have learned about rent control laws. This year alone, I…
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How Rent Control Will Damage MoCo’s Tax Base
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By Adam Pagnucco. With a strict rent control bill coming out of the council’s Planning, Housing and Parks Committee and worries about a structural budget deficit pervading county government, the…
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Will Jawando: Cast Vote Data
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By Adam Pagnucco. Council Member Will Jawando finished second in the council at-large primary. He finished first in Takoma Park, Downtown Silver Spring, Silver Spring East County, Glenmont/Norbeck, Burtonsville and…
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Three Facts About MoCo Police Officers
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By Adam Pagnucco. Bill 33-19, lead-sponsored by Council Members Nancy Navarro and Craig Rice and passed unanimously in 2020, requires annual reports from the Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) on…
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“I Can Never Trust Them Again”
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By Adam Pagnucco. “I can never trust them again.” That’s what one source told me recently. I’ll get to the targets of that quote, but first a story from days…
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Mink Has Deleted Thousands of Tweets
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By Adam Pagnucco. Council Member Kristin Mink has deleted thousands of tweets in the last month. What did they all say? Will we ever know? Take a look at a…
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Friedson and Stewart Speak on Rent Control
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By Adam Pagnucco. My last question to Council Members Andrew Friedson and Kate Stewart was about the economy, which I profiled at length in a recent series. Sadly, I could…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Now let’s get to the budget and taxes. Here is more from my panel with Council Members Andrew Friedson and Kate Stewart at the Greater Bethesda Chamber…
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Friedson and Stewart Speak, Introduction
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By Adam Pagnucco. On June 27, the Greater Bethesda Chamber of Commerce invited me to moderate a panel with Council Members Andrew Friedson and Kate Stewart at their annual real…
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How Are We Spending Housing Money? Part Five
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By Adam Pagnucco. In Part Four, we learned that a consistent, longitudinal time series on affordable housing produced and preserved by the county’s Housing Initiative Fund (HIF) appears to not…