By Adam Pagnucco. MoCo Inspector General Megan Davey Limarzi, who previously uncovered an overtime scam in the fire department, has done it again. She has issued a new report detailing…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Moody’s Investors Service, one of the three major Wall Street bond rating agencies, has released an issuer comment characterizing the passage of Question A as a “credit…
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MoCo’s Bad Bailout Bet
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By Adam Pagnucco. There are a lot of reasons to pay attention to the races for president and Congress: social justice, climate change, the pandemic, the economy, the fate of…
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By Adam Pagnucco. As I have previously written, MoCo government is in the throes of a dire budget crisis that rivals the near-death experience it suffered during the Great Recession….
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Hogan is Lying About Question 1
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By Adam Pagnucco. Governor Larry Hogan is hopping mad about Question 1, a statewide constitutional amendment on the ballot that would curtail some of his massive budget powers. That’s understandable…
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Council Nukes Elrich Over COVID Grants
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By Adam Pagnucco. Here are two things that almost everyone inside and outside of county government will agree on. The needs of residents and businesses for financial assistance to deal…
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Time to Get Control of the Budget
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By Adam Pagnucco. Back in July, I wrote a post about the county budget titled “Crash!” The post discussed the county’s revenue writedown of $522 million for Fiscal Years 20-22,…
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Would Question B Harm Schools?
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By Adam Pagnucco. One of the key claims made by some opponents of Question B (Robin Ficker’s latest charter amendment on taxes) is that it will harm schools by limiting…
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How Will We Pay for This?
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By Adam Pagnucco. Confronting one of the worst recessions in its history, the MoCo government is projecting a loss of $190 million in revenue this fiscal year and over $1…
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How Not to Restructure Government
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By Adam Pagnucco. Dear readers, let’s consider the following sequence of events. 2018: County executive candidate Marc Elrich campaigns on a platform of restructuring government. Elrich writes in the Washington…