By Adam Pagnucco. In Part One, a Montgomery County taxpayer making roughly $55,000 a year calculated that she would pay nearly four times more in income taxes if Governor Wes…
Wes Moore
How is This Progressive? Part One
By Adam Pagnucco. Many, perhaps most, Democratic state elected officials in Maryland think of themselves as progressive. And the notion of progressive taxation has been used to market Governor Wes…
Moore’s Middle Class Tax Hike
By Adam Pagnucco. Governor Wes Moore’s budget and tax package has been widely depicted as progressive in the media. And there is reason to believe that. Two of its more…
Moore Tax Hike Targets MoCo
By Adam Pagnucco. Maryland’s Bureau of Revenue Estimates (BRE) has released its analysis of Governor Wes Moore’s income tax package and it demonstrates an unsurprising fact: The governor has targeted…
Is Hogan Running for Governor Again?
By Adam Pagnucco. Former Governor Larry Hogan just lost a U.S. Senate race to Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks by 11 points at this writing. That comes despite nearly…
MoCo Most Influential 2024, Part Three
By Adam Pagnucco. Part One explained how this survey was conducted. Part Two started the list of elected officials. Let’s continue today. All comments are from my sources except for…
2024 Primary Awards
By Adam Pagnucco. With primary election day behind us, it’s time to hand out awards for this part of the campaign cycle. No spreadsheets are required! Best Surrogate: Congressman Jamie…
Jawando Goes Negative
By Adam Pagnucco. Yesterday, Montgomery County Council Member Will Jawando, who is running for retiring U.S. Senator Ben Cardin’s seat, ran a negative Facebook ad. This is the first negative…
The Geography of Wes Moore’s Transition Team
By Adam Pagnucco. Here is something incoming Governor Wes Moore is going to learn in his first elected job: in Maryland, geography is everything. It relates to race, politics, culture,…
By Adam Pagnucco. In Montgomery County, the general election is often anti-climactic compared to the primary because Republicans have not won a partisan office in a district contained entirely within…