By Adam Pagnucco. Last Friday, County Executive Marc Elrich appeared on the Politics Hour with Kojo Nnamdi and engaged in a wide-ranging discussion touching on schools, guns, crime, zoning, economic…
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Elrich: County Regulators are Overloaded
By Adam Pagnucco. County Executive Marc Elrich has written a memo to the county council requesting that they hold off on voting for a pending bill. The reason? Elrich claims…
Your Picks in Year One, Part Two
By Adam Pagnucco. Part One started our list of the top twenty posts in our first year ranked by page views. We have previously listed posts 11-20. Today we list…
Your Picks in Year One, Part One
By Adam Pagnucco. On September 27, 2022, Montgomery Perspective published its first post. Since then, almost 500 posts have followed. It’s been a tumultuous year and we have watched it…
Elrich Criticizes Silence of School Board
By Adam Pagnucco. At his weekly media briefing yesterday, County Executive Marc Elrich addressed ongoing controversies at MCPS. After repeating his concerns about the initial summary report of MCPS’s sexual…
By Adam Pagnucco. The Montgomery County Republican Party has shown up strong at this year’s agricultural fair in Gaithersburg, gathering signatures to oust their principal nemesis in county government. And…
By Adam Pagnucco. The battle for rent control was a historic event in Montgomery County. And like all big battles, it had winners and losers. Here is a list. Winners…
Fact Checking Elrich, Part Two
By Adam Pagnucco. Let’s resume evaluating Elrich’s pushback on the council over its recently passed FY24 budget. On school spending Elrich took two tracks on school spending. First, he remarked…
Fact Checking Elrich, Part One
By Adam Pagnucco. Despite getting 98 percent of his FY24 recommended budget funded by the county council, County Executive Marc Elrich went on the attack last week. He criticized the…
Reset? What Reset?
By Adam Pagnucco. Reset. This is the word I heard over and over after a contentious Democratic primary in which County Executive Marc Elrich overcame millions of dollars in negative…