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
In Montgomery and Prince George’s, Moore Leads by 54 Points. Statewide It’s 27.
The new UMBC Poll shows Wes Moore beating Dan Cox 67 percent to 13 percent among likely voters in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties, double his statewide margin. Three in four local voters plan to vote by mail or during early voting.Continue Reading
Gaithersburg Has Already Picked Its Next Mayor, If Jud Ashman Wins
The Gaithersburg City Council has conditionally selected Council Member Lisa Henderson to serve as mayor if Mayor Jud Ashman wins the District 3 seat on the Montgomery County Council on November 3. The city did exactly this in 2014, for the same county seat.Continue Reading