By Adam Pagnucco. When Montgomery County passed public financing more than six years ago, many predictions were made. Public financing was supposed to empower small donors. (It did.) It was…
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Biden’s Billions
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By Adam Pagnucco. President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress passed a mammoth economic stimulus plan last week. The plan contains hundreds of billions of dollars in aid to states…
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By Adam Pagnucco. The Daily Record has reported that a House of Delegates subcommittee has effectively killed Delegate Lily Qi’s bill allowing some grocery stores to sell beer and wine….
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By Adam Pagnucco. Our post yesterday – MoCo Republicans in Freefall – has caught the attention of the county GOP. In an email sent to his colleagues shortly after our…
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Barve Bashes the Council on Solar
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By Adam Pagnucco. Last month, Delegate Kumar Barve, chair of the House Environment and Transportation Committee, warned the county council not to pass a version of a zoning text amendment…
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MoCo Republicans in Free Fall
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By Adam Pagnucco. Montgomery County’s Republican Party is in free fall. Consider the following five facts, all derived from data provided by the State Board of Elections. 1. While the…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Last fall, I wrote about a bombshell General Assembly audit of the State Department of Assessments and Taxation which found that the agency had miscalculated property taxes…
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By Adam Pagnucco. In order to save money in the county’s capital budget, the administration of County Executive Marc Elrich has asked the state to single-track the Purple Line through…
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By Adam Pagnucco. In Part Three, we learned that rising average wages during the pandemic are likely a sign of growing income inequality as job losses are concentrated in lower…
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By Adam Pagnucco. In Part Two, we identified one reason why average wages have been rising during the COVID recession: job losses have been concentrated in the leisure and hospitality…