By Adam Pagnucco. When you raise a tax rate, you get more revenue from it, right? Not always. If you want a demonstration of a rate increase and a revenue…
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Top Stories: December 2023
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By Adam Pagnucco. Below are the top ten stories on Montgomery Perspective in December 2023, ranked by page views. 1. Three Years Without White’s Ferry 2. Navarro’s MCPS Pay Revealed…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Montgomery County’s latest six-year fiscal plan contains a surprising number: the county’s tax revenues have come in $455 million above estimates over the last two fiscal years. …
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By Adam Pagnucco. In the wake of last spring’s 4.7% property tax hike, which was levied in part to fund a big budget increase for MCPS, the school system is…
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Your Picks in Year One, Part Two
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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…
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Landmarks of MoCo: Significant Events
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By Adam Pagnucco. In Part One, I summarized how I asked my sources to help me construct a list of important events in county history since the 1960s. Part Two…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Now let’s get to the budget and taxes. Here is more from my panel with Council Members Andrew Friedson and Kate Stewart at the Greater Bethesda Chamber…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Montgomery County’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued a new report chronicling problems with the county government’s enforcement of its bag tax law. Specifically, the county…
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What Happened to These State Bills?
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By Adam Pagnucco. Over the last several months, I wrote about a few state bills that have since been resolved in the most recent session of the General Assembly. Let’s…
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Fact Checking Elrich, Part Two
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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…
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