By Adam Pagnucco. Former Delegate Kumar Barve has issued a statement of support for former Rockville Mayor Susan Hoffmann to be appointed to his District 17 House of Delegates seat. …
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Barve Bashes the Council on Solar
By Adam Pagnucco. Last month, Delegate Kumar Barve, chair of the House Environment and Transportation Committee, warned the county council not to pass a version of a zoning text amendment…
Barve Warns Council on Solar
By Adam Pagnucco. Delegate Kumar Barve has sent the county council a letter saying that he is “deeply disturbed” by their actions on a zoning text amendment allowing solar panels…
By Adam Pagnucco. Delegates Kumar Barve and Dana Stein, the Chair and Vice Chair of the House Environment and Transportation Committee respectively, have written the state’s Secretary of Housing and…
Kumar Barve’s Draft Notice, 1994
By Adam Pagnucco. Once in a while, we’re going to post some lit from the past to show today’s newbies how it’s done. Below is Delegate Kumar Barve’s “draft notice”…
Broadcast TV Spending in CD8
By Adam Pagnucco. Unlike most state and local races below the level of Governor, the contest in Congressional District 8 has seen a lot of television ads. These ads are…
Three Strategies for Winning CD8
By Adam Pagnucco. With roughly ten weeks until early voting begins in the 2016 primary, candidates for Congress in District 8 are entering the home stretch. Three candidates are leading…
All Politics is Local . . . Right?
By Adam Pagnucco. “All politics is local” according to the famous quote by former U.S. House Speaker Tip O’Neill. Moreover, any occasional viewer of Hardball, the MSNBC politics show featuring…
Fundraising in Congressional District 8
By Adam Pagnucco. Money talks and people are talking about money. That’s the vibe in CD8, which could turn out to be the most expensive congressional race in Maryland history….
Best of the Bad Boy
House Majority Leader Kumar “Bad Boy” Barve was first elected in 1990 and has been wisecracking his way through Annapolis ever since. Here are three lit pieces from early in…