By Adam Pagnucco. Last month, I printed a column asking if school board candidate Brenda Diaz was on track to winning her race for an...

By Adam Pagnucco. Part One described a bill by Council Member Kate Stewart that would impose substantial governance requirements on the county’s main community media...

By Adam Pagnucco. Esther Wells, the Republican nominee for Montgomery County executive, has announced her endorsement by former Delegate and current Washington County Commissioner Neil...

By Adam Pagnucco. MCPS is getting ready to commence a round of elementary and middle school closings and consolidations.  The district has previously announced an...

By Adam Pagnucco. Council Member Kate Stewart recently made news by introducing a bill that would impose new requirements on “community media organizations.”  The bill...

By Adam Pagnucco. On Tuesday, this site ran a guest column by Angie Kronenberg, representing Save Our Silver Spring Schools, questioning MCPS’s process for considering...

By Adam Pagnucco. Part One listed Will Jawando’s assets and liabilities.  Part Two looked at Andrew Friedson.  Part Three examined Evan Glass.  Part Four recited...

By Adam Pagnucco. Part One listed Will Jawando’s assets and liabilities.  Part Two looked at Andrew Friedson.  Part Three examined Evan Glass.  Part Four recited...

Guest column by Angie Kronenberg. Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) has launched a study that could lead to the consolidation and closure of elementary and...

By Adam Pagnucco. Part One listed Will Jawando’s assets and liabilities.  Part Two looked at Andrew Friedson.  Part Three examined Evan Glass.  Part Four recited...

By Adam Pagnucco. MoCo’s local Republican candidates struggle to reach voters because of a lack of campaign funds.  But one GOP politician has never had...

By Adam Pagnucco. Council Member Will Jawando, the Democratic nominee for county executive, made news on Monday when his campaign manager stated that he would...

By Adam Pagnucco. Part One listed Will Jawando’s assets and liabilities.  Part Two looked at Andrew Friedson.  Part Three examined Evan Glass.  Part Four recited...

By Adam Pagnucco. Republican Council District 7 nominee Harold Maldonado, whose support from the county’s Republican Party was withdrawn by a unanimous vote of the...

Guest column by Andrew Friedson. As one of the most diverse places in the country, we in Montgomery County pride ourselves on being an inclusive and...

By Adam Pagnucco. Last week, we reported that Republican Council District 7 nominee Harold Maldonado has stated that the Mossad (Israel’s national intelligence agency) controls...

By Adam Pagnucco. Council Member Will Jawando, the Democratic nominee for county executive, has sent a statement through his campaign manager that he will not...

By Adam Pagnucco. Yesterday, I ran a statement from the campaign manager of Council Member Will Jawando, who is the Democratic nominee for county executive,...

By Adam Pagnucco. Part One listed Will Jawando’s assets and liabilities.  Part Two looked at Andrew Friedson.  Part Three examined Evan Glass.  Part Four recited...

By Adam Pagnucco. In the face of calls by GOP county executive candidate Esther Wells and her supporters for general election debates, Democratic nominee Will...

By Adam Pagnucco. Council District 1 Republican candidate Reardon “Sully” Sullivan sent out a mailer last week attacking his opponent, Democrat and Board of Education...

By Adam Pagnucco. Earlier today, County Executive Marc Elrich announced that he had accepted the resignation of Police Chief Marc Yamada, effective immediately.  Hours later,...

By Adam Pagnucco. After this year’s round of high school and middle school redistricting along with a new regional program framework, MCPS is proceeding to...

By Adam Pagnucco. A candidate for county council believes that the Mossad (Israel’s national intelligence agency) controls MoCo’s elected officials; Democrats want a civil war...

By Adam Pagnucco. Part One listed Will Jawando’s assets and liabilities.  Part Two looked at Andrew Friedson.  Part Three examined Evan Glass.  Part Four recited...

By Adam Pagnucco. Part One listed Will Jawando’s assets and liabilities.  Part Two looked at Andrew Friedson.  Part Three examined Evan Glass.  Part Four recited...

By Adam Pagnucco. In an era of declining media, the D.C. region has another media outlet – one that has recently expanded.  And while the...

By Adam Pagnucco. Former MCPS teacher Brenda Diaz, who left the school district after refusing to wear a mask during the pandemic, is a marked...

By Adam Pagnucco. Montgomery County Inspector General Megan Davey Limarzi has released a report finding that an employee of the Office of County Attorney (OCA),...

By Adam Pagnucco. Part One listed Will Jawando’s assets and liabilities.  Part Two looked at Andrew Friedson.  Part Three examined Evan Glass. Before getting to...

By Adam Pagnucco. Part One listed Will Jawando’s assets and liabilities.  Part Two looked at Andrew Friedson.  Not let’s examine Evan Glass. Evan Glass Assets...

By Adam Pagnucco. Council Member Will Jawando, who is the Democratic nominee for county executive, released a video minutes ago thanking constituents for wishing him...

By Adam Pagnucco. Part One listed Will Jawando’s assets and liabilities.  Now let’s turn to the second place finisher, Andrew Friedson. Andrew Friedson It’s unlikely...

By Adam Pagnucco. With our series on Democratic turnout complete, it’s time to turn to this year’s landmark Democratic county executive primary.  We begin with...

By Adam Pagnucco. Reardon “Sully” Sullivan and County Executive Marc Elrich disagree on just about everything.  After all, Elrich is a long-time socialist who regularly...

By Adam Pagnucco. Council Member Will Jawando, who is the Democratic nominee for county executive, is recovering from a heart attack he experienced on Saturday...

By Adam Pagnucco. Below are the top ten stories on Montgomery Perspective in August 2026, ranked by page views. 1. Another Tax Hike? 2. MoCo’s...

By Adam Pagnucco. According to the Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) and MCPS, Magruder High School in Rockville had a violent morning today. This is...

By Adam Pagnucco. Part One examined long-term trends in registration and gubernatorial primary turnout rate by party.  Part Two looked at the geography of Democratic...

By Adam Pagnucco. Part One examined long-term trends in registration and gubernatorial primary turnout rate by party.  Part Two looked at the geography of Democratic...

By Adam Pagnucco. Part One examined long-term trends in registration and gubernatorial primary turnout rate by party.  Part Two looked at the geography of Democratic...

Guest column by Elisa Chen Sukhobok. Across Montgomery County, back-to-school season is measured in new backpacks, packed lunches, and first-day photos. But while families focus...

By Adam Pagnucco. For the second time, County Executive Marc Elrich has vetoed the council’s appointment of James Hedrick to the planning board.  Elrich told...

By Adam Pagnucco. The Committee to Control Montgomery County Spending, a ballot issue committee advocating for the Stop the Spend charter amendment, has filed suit...

By Adam Pagnucco. Part One examined long-term trends in registration and gubernatorial primary turnout rate by party.  Part Two looked at the geography of Democratic...

By Adam Pagnucco. Part One examined long-term trends in registration and gubernatorial primary turnout rate by party.  Now let’s start examining the geography of Democratic...

By Adam Pagnucco. The titanic 2026 Democratic primary is over and the precinct results have been published.  We all know who was elected, but it’s...

By Adam Pagnucco. Minutes ago, MCPS released its Welcome Back video for the new school year.  I’m a sucker for Les Misérables so I loved...

By Adam Pagnucco. Outrage about the county’s recent huge tax hike on most homeowners has been swirling on social media for weeks.  And in the...

By Adam Pagnucco. Part One explained the methodology of this series, which looks at U.S. Census data on residential addresses to approximate housing units.  Part...