By Adam Pagnucco. In the introduction, I explained the methodology my panel of historians and I used to compile a list of the most important events in MoCo history since…
COVID-19
MoCo Restaurants in the Pandemic, Part Five
By Adam Pagnucco. During the pandemic, Montgomery County’s restaurant industry took bigger hits on employment, wages paid and net losses in number of restaurants than most other large jurisdictions in…
MoCo Restaurants in the Pandemic, Part Four
By Adam Pagnucco. The pandemic’s effect on the restaurant industry played out in two years for which we have data: 2020 and 2021. In 2020, the first year of the…
MoCo Restaurants in the Pandemic, Part Three
By Adam Pagnucco. In 2020 – possibly the worst year for U.S. restaurants since the Great Depression – Montgomery County restaurants lost employees and wages paid at about the same…
MoCo Restaurants in the Pandemic, Part Two
By Adam Pagnucco. Some in Montgomery County’s restaurant industry have claimed that the county’s COVID restrictions were unnecessarily harsh and inflicted more economic damage than restrictions in other parts of…
MoCo Restaurants in the Pandemic, Part One
By Adam Pagnucco. MoCo’s restaurant community has long had an up-and-down relationship with the county government. On the one hand, restaurant owners and managers frequently complain about issues like parking,…
Jack Smith Reflects on MCPS COVID Policies
By Adam Pagnucco. In an article in Harvard University’s Education Next publication, former MCPS Superintendent Jack Smith reflects on his COVID policies during the pandemic. While the article is about…
Crosstabs: Goucher College Poll on COVID
By Adam Pagnucco. Part One of Goucher College’s latest poll of Marylanders is out and it asks several questions related to the COVID pandemic. The accompanying crosstabs spreadsheet is also…
By Adam Pagnucco. Joining the Montgomery County Council and County Executive Marc Elrich, MoCo Congressmen Jamie Raskin and David Trone have asked Governor Larry Hogan to establish a mass vaccination…
By Adam Pagnucco. SEIU Local 32BJ, which represents building service workers, and the Apartment and Office Building Association (AOBA), which represents owners and landlords, are often at odds. The union…