By Adam Pagnucco. Late last week, travel news site Skift broke the news that Bethesda-based Marriott International had notified its employees of pending layoffs. Later, the story was updated to…
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By Adam Pagnucco. On July 13, the executive branch sent a report to the county council on the status of its conditional grant to Marriott. The grant dates back to…
By Adam Pagnucco. Let’s show more geography of bullet voting in the council at-large primary. Today we will look at the Democratic Crescent and Rockville. The Democratic Crescent, comprised of…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cle4eUuf0AQ] By Adam Pagnucco. On the evening of October 20, a representative of Clark Enterprises (Bob Eisenberg) appeared before the Montgomery County Council to testify on the Downtown Bethesda…
By Adam Pagnucco. Suppose you want to persuade an elected official to vote in a certain way. Which of the following tactics would you choose? Prepare the best case on…
Links We Thought We Would Never Get
Our reporting on Bethesda’s Pimping Castle is drawing links from some VERY unusual places. Here are two of them.
British Lucky Paul’s Pal
Pimping Castle Makes Fox 5
County Executive spokesman Patrick Lacefield left the following comment on the notorious “Pimping Castle” in Bethesda. Unlike our satirical account of a mythological raid, Lacefield’s statement should be taken seriously….
Pimping Castle Raided by Police
Montgomery County Police raided Bethesda’s so-called “Pimping Castle” last night and MPW reporters were on the scene. The raid will quickly go down as one of the wildest ever in…