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…
Andrew Friedson
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…
Political Awards, 2023
By Adam Pagnucco. It’s a brand new year and you know what that means – a political awards column for the year that was. Here are Montgomery Perspective’s political awards…
By Adam Pagnucco. Montgomery County’s latest six-year fiscal plan contains a surprising number: the county’s tax revenues have come in $455 million above estimates over the last two fiscal years. …
By Adam Pagnucco. Council Member Andrew Friedson is one of the county’s most prominent elected officials. CASA is one of the county’s most prominent interest groups and depends on the…
Don’t Equivocate About Jew Hate
Guest column by Montgomery County Council Member Andrew Friedson. On October 7th, 2023, nearly 1,500 innocent civilians were murdered and kidnapped in the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust….