What the Dickerson Incinerator’s Electricity Is Worth to Montgomery County
With the Montgomery County Council’s 6-5 vote on Tuesday to keep the Dickerson incinerator, the county’s Resource Recovery Facility will keep doing two jobs: burning the county’s trash and generating electricity that is sold on the regional power grid. The county projected about $23 million in electricity revenue for fiscalContinue Reading
Germantown Plan Goes to the Planning Board Thursday: Room for 5,300 More Homes, Taller Buildings, Fewer Road Lanes
Montgomery Planning’s first full draft of a new plan for Germantown would make room for nearly 5,300 more homes, allow buildings as tall as 145 feet near the MARC station and along MD 355, and take lanes off six streets, according to the working draft the Planning Board takes upContinue Reading
WSSC Told Emergency Managers All Customers Could Lose Water by 5 p.m. Sept. 29, County Memo Says
At 1:45 p.m. on Sept. 29, WSSC Water told emergency managers it expected some customers to start losing water pressure by 3 p.m., most by 4 p.m., and all of its customers to lose water service by 5 p.m., according to a Nov. 6 memo from Montgomery County’s Office ofContinue Reading
Rockville Proclaims Nov. 15 World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
The Rockville Mayor and Council have proclaimed Sunday, Nov. 15, 2026, as World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. The proclamation, signed Nov. 2 by Mayor Monique Ashton and all six councilmembers, encourages everyone in Rockville “to acknowledge the victims of road traffic incidents and to take safety precautionsContinue Reading
Jud Ashman Takes the Dais One Last Time as Lisa Henderson Is Sworn In as Gaithersburg Mayor
Lisa Henderson took the oath of office as Gaithersburg’s mayor at a special City Council session Monday night, Nov. 9, replacing Jud Ashman, who won the District 3 seat on the Montgomery County Council on Nov. 3. In a statement to Moderately MOCO, Ashman said: I know it’s cliche toContinue Reading
GLP-1 Patents and Prices: MCPS’s Bill Tops $100 Million Before Rebates
GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy now cost the Montgomery County Public Schools employee health plan “over $100 million,” MCPS’s chief financial officer told a school board committee in September, and MCPS later told Moderately MOCO that the figure is before drug-maker rebates. In a Novo Nordisk-funded trial ofContinue Reading
Council Votes 6-5 to Keep the Dickerson Incinerator Open for the Long Term
The Montgomery County Council voted 6-5 on Tuesday, Nov. 10, to approve a resolution supporting keeping the Dickerson Resource Recovery Facility open for the long term as the county’s primary method of disposing of solid waste, according to a Council news release. The vote came against the recommendation of CountyContinue Reading
Five Acres, Sixteen Homes, and a $3.5 Million Question
Takoma Park bought and protected part of the former Washington-McLaughlin School land as Dorothy’s Woods. Now the city has passed on the remaining five-acre site as a recreation-center location, the asking price has plunged by $3.5 million, and a newly formed company proposes 16 privately owned homes. What changed, andContinue Reading
Moderately Mic’d on TV This Week: Amanda Levin and Nehemiah Carter on MCM Channel 21
Moderately Mic’d airs 23 times on Montgomery Community Media’s Channel 21 this week, Tuesday, Nov. 10, through Monday, Nov. 16, according to MCM’s published schedule. MCM sets the schedule and can change it. No cable? Watch Channel 21 live online at any of the times below. This week’s episodes AmandaContinue Reading
Malachi Reid on Losing Baseball, Finding Biotech and Starting the 29:11 Foundation
Malachi Reid grew up in Montgomery County planning to pitch in college and, someday, for the Washington Nationals. A shoulder injury before his senior baseball season at Wootton High School changed that plan. Reid now works as an apprentice at AstraZeneca’s Gaithersburg facility while studying biotechnology at Montgomery College, andContinue Reading