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Founder, Montgomery Perspective

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On Public Financing, Part Eight: More Demographics - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. In Part Seven, we learned that zip codes with high percentages of Asian, Black and Latino residents disproportionately did not contribute to...
31.10.2025 11:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Public Safety Unions Join Forces to Support Milam for Sheriff - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. A coalition of public safety unions has announced their support for Will Milam, a retired Prince George’s County Chief Assistant Sheriff who...
30.10.2025 18:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Can Albornoz be Picked as the Next Recreation Director? - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. As I have previously reported, County Executive Marc Elrich has announced his intention to nominate outgoing Council Member Gabe Albornoz as the...
30.10.2025 14:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Better Plan for MCPS's Headquarters - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. Last week, I wrote about MCPS’s proposed $400+ million central office campus.  The project, which uses land now occupied by the old...
29.10.2025 15:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A New Candidate in Council District 3 - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. Council Member Sidney Katz, who represents Council District 3, is leaving office due to term limits.  The district is mostly comprised of...
28.10.2025 12:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Three Candidates Seek Socialist Endorsement - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. Three candidates for state and county office in Montgomery County are seeking the endorsement of the Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America...
27.10.2025 15:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Can the Sheriff’s Office Do its Job? - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. Last month, I called for the county council to review staffing data on the sheriff’s office.  The backdrop is a pending election...
24.10.2025 14:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Banerjee Blasts Renter Leader’s $170k+ in Compensation - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. County executive candidate Mithun Banerjee, who has sued the Montgomery County Renters Alliance and Montgomery Community Media (MCM) for failing to invite...
23.10.2025 15:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Frosh Endorses Spielberg for Council - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. I don’t post every endorsement, but this one is more important than most: former District 16 State Senator and Maryland Attorney General...
22.10.2025 15:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Korman Explains the Shutdown - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. I have known Delegate Marc Korman for a long time.  (He was once my co-writer on Maryland Politics Watch, the first site...
21.10.2025 17:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Taylor’s Huge Capital Ask, Part Five - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. Part One examined Superintendent Thomas Taylor’s rationale for his huge capital budget ask.  Part Two quantified huge in historical terms.  Part Three...
21.10.2025 15:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Elrich Nominates Albornoz for Recreation - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. County Executive Marc Elrich has nominated outgoing Council Member Gabe Albornoz as director of the county’s recreation department.  Albornoz previously had that...
20.10.2025 17:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Taylor’s Huge Capital Ask, Part Four - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. Part One examined Superintendent Thomas Taylor’s rationale for his huge capital budget ask.  Part Two quantified huge in historical terms.  Part Three...
20.10.2025 14:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Taylor’s Huge Capital Ask, Part Three - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. Part One examined Superintendent Thomas Taylor’s rationale for his huge capital budget ask.  Part Two quantified huge in historical terms.  (Yes, it’s...
17.10.2025 16:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How the Council Appointment Process Will Work - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. Council Member Gabe Albornoz has announced that he will be leaving the county council on December 1.  This news is no surprise...
16.10.2025 16:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Taylor’s Huge Capital Ask, Part Two - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. MCPS Superintendent Thomas Taylor has made a huge ask in his new recommended six-year capital budget.  How big is it?  And what’s...
16.10.2025 15:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Taylor’s Huge Capital Ask, Part One - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. MCPS Superintendent Thomas Taylor doesn’t believe in small things.  Just look at his first recommended operating budget, which asked for one of...
15.10.2025 14:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mink Wants to Rewrite History on Rent Control - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. Confronted with overwhelming evidence of a collapse in multifamily housing production after passage of the county’s new rent control law, Council Member...
14.10.2025 13:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Be Careful with Early Polls - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. Here is the kind of conversation I hate. Political source: “OMG.  Have you heard the rumor?” Me: “I hear lots of rumors,...
13.10.2025 14:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Target: Acevero - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. Three District 39 state legislators are teaming up with a sitting Gaithersburg City Council Member on a high-stakes mission.  Their goal: take...
10.10.2025 19:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How Progressives Could Seize Control of MoCo - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. MoCo isn’t that big on slate politics.  Sure, we have loose coalitions of lefties and (relative) moderates.  And in the past, we...
10.10.2025 14:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Volunteer Fire Fighters Endorse Friedson for Executive - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. The Montgomery County Volunteer Fire Rescue Association (MCVFRA), which represents volunteer fire fighters in MoCo, has endorsed Council Member Andrew Friedson for...
09.10.2025 18:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Montgomery Community Media Comments on Banerjee Lawsuit - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. Earlier today, I wrote about a lawsuit filed by county executive candidate Mithun Banerjee against the Montgomery County Renters Alliance and Montgomery...
09.10.2025 15:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Banerjee Sues Renters Alliance, Montgomery Community Media - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. County executive candidate Mithun Banerjee, who was not invited to attend the candidate forum sponsored by the Montgomery County Renters Alliance and...
09.10.2025 14:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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MCPS’s Health Insurance Headache - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. One of the biggest priorities in MCPS Superintendent Thomas Taylor’s first recommended operating budget was plugging a growing hole in the district’s...
08.10.2025 15:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Top Stories: September 2025 - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. Below are the top ten stories on Montgomery Perspective in September 2025, ranked by page views. 1. How MoCo Has Changed Since...
07.10.2025 19:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Does Friedson Have a Problem in His District? - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. Council Member Andrew Friedson, who currently represents Council District 1, is a top contender to become the next county executive.  He faces...
07.10.2025 14:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Maryland Legislative Jewish Caucus Denounces UMD Student Government Association - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. The Maryland Legislative Jewish Caucus has issued a statement denouncing the University of Maryland Student Government Association (SGA) for scheduling a vote...
06.10.2025 16:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It’s Not All About Trump - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. Generally speaking, an elected official can only hold one elected position at a time.  Donald Trump, for example, is the president of...
06.10.2025 13:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Fani-Gonzalez Raises Concerns About MCPS Region Model - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. District 6 County Council Member Natali Fani-Gonzalez has written her colleagues on the council’s Education and Culture Committee (Chair Will Jawando, Gabe...
03.10.2025 17:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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