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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
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…
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…