By Adam Pagnucco. Former school board member Jill Ortman-Fouse is co-chairing a new group opposing Question B, Robin Ficker’s charter amendment on property taxes, along with former Jamie Raskin staffer…
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By Adam Pagnucco. MoCo voters will see two charter amendments on property taxes on their ballots this fall. One of them was submitted by long-time anti-tax activist Robin Ficker, who…
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By Adam Pagnucco. The Washington Post’s editorial board has weighed in on MoCo’s competing charter amendments and recommends voting against all of them. The Post wrote that both citizens’ initiatives…
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By Adam Pagnucco. A document written by a special assistant to County Executive Marc Elrich lays out the administration’s views on the county’s charter limit on property taxes. And its…
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Council Rejects Hidden Tax Hike
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By Adam Pagnucco. Yesterday afternoon, the county council rejected the hidden tax hike that was buried in the county executive’s recommended budget. The primary issue that bothered the council was…
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Elrich’s Hidden Tax Hike
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By Adam Pagnucco. One month ago, I roasted the Montgomery County Republican Party for inaccurately claiming that the county was trying to “sneak in” a tax hike. At that time,…
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County Screw-Up Led to Tax Hike Proposal
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By Adam Pagnucco. Buried in the fine print of County Executive Marc Elrich’s recommended FY21 operating budget is a shocking revelation: the executive claims that a mistake made by county…
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Elrich Then and Elrich Now
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By Adam Pagnucco. The big news coming out of County Executive Marc Elrich’s recommended Fiscal Year 2021 budget is that he is proposing a tax hike. As you might imagine,…
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By Adam Pagnucco. As MoCo residents are just now starting to find out, County Executive Marc Elrich has recommended a property tax hike as part of his Fiscal Year 2021…
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Elrich Defends His Tax Hike
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By Adam Pagnucco. Forty-five minutes after eight members of the county council released a statement opposing the property tax hike contained in County Executive Marc Elrich’s recommended budget, the executive…