By Adam Pagnucco. The Greater Capital Area Association of Realtors (GCAAR) has announced its endorsements for county executive and county council. I don’t print every endorsement (there are a ton…
Marilyn Balcombe
What Will be the Effect of the Apple Ballot?
By Adam Pagnucco. Last Friday, the Montgomery County Education Association (MCEA) announced its endorsees in county and school board races. Because those endorsements appear on its widely distributed Apple Ballot,…
The Comeback Kids
By Adam Pagnucco. When you’re sizing up election races, some factors naturally rise to the top: incumbency, money, endorsements, candidate work ethic and more. Here is an important one that…
By Adam Pagnucco. Few county debates are more consequential than those concerning the charter, which is equivalent to the county’s constitution. And of such debates, the most weighty often pertain…
Do They Really Need to Do That?
By Adam Pagnucco. As this sudden and torturous budgetary upheaval in MCPS proceeds to its doom-laden conclusion, I keep hearing the same question from my sources: “Do they really need…
Bring in the Moms
By Adam Pagnucco. It’s Sunday afternoon. Junior wants something. He wants it soooooo bad. He begs his parents to get it. Dad, who is busy watching the Nats tied with…
Marilyn Balcombe: Cast Vote Data
By Adam Pagnucco. Marilyn Balcombe, the former president and CEO of the Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce, won her Council District 2 primary easily. Coming off a respectable fifth-place finish in…
By Adam Pagnucco. Police traffic enforcement is a hot topic now. Consider this: Bethesda Beat reported the following from a recent online forum about traffic issues: Calling for more traffic…
Balcombe’s Comeback
By Adam Pagnuccco. MoCo political history is full of strong female candidates who run once, lose respectably and never run again. Recent examples include Becky Wagner (2010 council at-large), Beth…
By Adam Pagnucco. Marilyn Balcombe, a Germantown resident who ran a strong fifth in the 2018 Democratic Party council at-large primary, is co-chairing a new group opposing the Nine Districts…
