Zip Moving Owner Dragan Manic on Immigration, Entrepreneurship, and AI in the Moving Industry
Dragan Manic immigrated to the United States from Serbia and built Zip Moving & Storage from the ground up. In the latest episode of Moderately Mic’d, he walks through the decisions, challenges, and shifts that turned a new arrival’s ambition into a moving and storage company serving the Washington area.Continue Reading
Opinion: After a Brutal Budget, County Council Finds Money for Its Most Powerful Endorser
Nora Gordon argues that Bill 48-26’s $2,500 property tax credit for MCPS employees is framed as housing affordability but functions as a bonus for fewer than one in five district employees.Continue Reading
A Voter’s Guide to SuperPACs in Montgomery County: Casa In Action
Maryland Super PAC | Committee #13014810Campaign-finance filings reviewed: January 2023 through August 2026 CASA in Action PAC reported approximately $5.53 million in contributions and $5.76 million in expenditures through the latest filing reviewed. The PAC reported independent political spending supporting candidates in Montgomery County, Prince George’s County and Gaithersburg, asContinue Reading
Markoff’s Haunted Forest Has 18 Nights Left This Season. Every Ticket Funds a Dickerson Nonprofit.
Markoff’s Haunted Forest has 18 nights left in its 2026 season, ending Sunday, November 8. Revenue from the Dickerson haunt funds Calleva, a 501(c)(3) outdoor education nonprofit.Continue Reading
Live Music This Weekend in Montgomery County: October 9–11
Seven live shows across Montgomery County this weekend, from North Bethesda and Gaithersburg to Clarksburg, Kensington and Dickerson.Continue Reading
Nearly Two-Thirds of Montgomery County’s Head Start Children Come From Multilingual Homes. A Federal Rule Would Mandate English Only.
About 63 percent of the roughly 1,000 children in Montgomery County’s Head Start program come from multilingual households. A federal proposal would impose an English-only mandate, and the comment period has already closed.Continue Reading
Six in Ten Maryland Voters Want Open Primaries. A Bill That Passed the House Died in a Senate Committee Without a Vote.
Sixty percent of Maryland likely voters want to open the state’s primaries, including 74 percent of unaffiliated voters and 71 percent of voters under 35. Republicans are the only group opposed.Continue Reading
MCPS Takes Up School Closures Thursday. Here’s What That Meeting Will and Won’t Do.
The Montgomery County Board of Education takes up the elementary and middle school closure and consolidation study at a noon work session Thursday, October 8. MCPS says the meeting will not approve criteria or identify any school for closure.Continue Reading
A Fight After Monday’s Poolesville-Clarksburg Flag Football Game Sent an Adult to the Hospital. Both Principals Have Written to Families.
Poolesville and Clarksburg principals wrote jointly to families Tuesday after a parking lot fight following Monday’s girls flag football game sent an adult to the hospital.Continue Reading
Bronson Hoover’s First Album Began With His Mother’s Question. The Release Party Is October 11.
Bronson Hoover has played in Montgomery County bands since the late 1980s without ever making a record of his own. His debut solo album, my moon & other love songs, gets a release party on Sunday, October 11 at Hank Dietle’s Tavern in Rockville.Continue Reading