By Adam Pagnucco. Last Thursday, the county council’s Government Operations and Fiscal Policy Committee took up the county’s beleaguered grants program, a subject of mounting unhappiness among the local nonprofit…
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Poll: County Executive Race is Wide Open
By Adam Pagnucco. Last week, I reported on a poll of MoCo Democratic voters primarily concerning housing issues by Greater Greater Washington. Well, it turns out that they did not…
Bus Contract Fees Owed to MCPS Skyrocket
By Adam Pagnucco. Back in July, Montgomery County Inspector General (IG) Megan Davey Limarzi found “wasteful spending” in an MCPS electric bus contract and estimated that the contractor owed the…
MoCo Most Influential 2024, Part Six
By Adam Pagnucco. Part One explained how this survey was conducted. Parts Two, Three, Four and Five listed elected officials. Let’s continue today. All comments are from my sources except for those…
By Adam Pagnucco. As word began to spread about a screening at Montgomery College of The Occupation of the American Mind, a movie alleging an Israeli “public relations war” to…
Interrogation Redux, Part Two
By Adam Pagnucco. In Part One, we transcribed an exchange between Council Member Kate Stewart and Board of Education President Karla Silvestre about accountability for MCPS administrators who were involved…
Fundraising Master Class: Andrew Friedson
By Adam Pagnucco. Recently, I wrote about 2023 fundraising by county elected officials and there was only one story worth mentioning: the titanic total raised by Council Member Andrew Friedson. …
By Adam Pagnucco. Yesterday afternoon, the county council unanimously approved $338,500 in additional non-competitive contract money for CASA, the immigrant rights group that caused huge controversy with its statements about…
By Adam Pagnucco. Yesterday, I wrote about fundraising by the delegation. Today, let’s look at how the county elected officials did last year. The table below shows beginning and ending…
Friedson’s New Engagement Tech
By Adam Pagnucco. Like me, many of you may have received a text from Council President Andrew Friedson on January 4. The text said: Hi, I’m Andrew Friedson, honored to…