By Adam Pagnucco. The Montgomery County Government has issued a solicitation seeking bids on a propaganda video defending the county’s liquor monopoly. The solicitation comes after the County Executive’s task…
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MoCo’s Two Electorates, Part Three
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By Adam Pagnucco. Part Two presented a host of demographic data comparing Democrats who voted in all three of the 2006, 2010 and 2014 primaries (“Super Dems”) to voters from…
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MoCo’s Two Electorates, Part Two
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By Adam Pagnucco. In Part One, we began contrasting MoCo’s Two Electorates: namely, the Democratic primary voters who pick our elected officials, and the general election voters who decide charter…
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MoCo’s Two Electorates, Part One
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By Adam Pagnucco. Montgomery County voters are some of the most progressive people in the nation. They elect only Democrats, and almost all very liberal ones. They celebrate diversity and…
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MoCo’s Giant Tax Hike, Part Five
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By Adam Pagnucco. The untold story about the Giant Tax Hike is that it could have been cut substantially while still maintaining every dime of funding for MCPS in the…
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MoCo’s Giant Tax Hike, Part Three
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By Adam Pagnucco. The need to fund MCPS was one reason given by county officials for their recent hike in property taxes. Another reason was the effects of the U.S….
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MoCo’s Giant Tax Hike, Part One
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By Adam Pagnucco. As part of the Fiscal Year 2017 budget, the Montgomery County Council has voted to increase property taxes by 8.7 percent. This is a landmark event that…
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Following are the percentages gained by Republican candidates in Baltimore City, Montgomery County and Prince George’s County since 2002. Races with no GOP candidate or with incomplete tickets are not…
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MoCo Demographics and Voting, Part Four
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Five top-tier candidates ran in the 2006 Council At-Large primary: incumbents George Leventhal, Nancy Floreen and Mike Subin and labor-backed challengers Marc Elrich and Duchy Trachtenberg. A host of less…
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MoCo Demographics and Voting, Part Three
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Conventional wisdom holds that voters of color do not turn out at the same rate as white voters. How true is that in Montgomery County?As we detailed in Part One,…