October 29, 2024 To submit an opinion piece for consideration, contact us here. MCPS should use textbooks over Chromebooks especially in elementary school. Students are missing out on a vital skill of reading a book, taking notes, and answering questions at the end of each chapter. It is a criticalContinue Reading
October 7, 2024 – Anonymous submission To submit an opinion piece for consideration, contact us here. Documents obtained from the University of Maryland reveal UMD Students for Justice in Palestine applied to reserve McKeldin Mall for an invitation only event for 25-50 people on October 7th from 7am to 11pm.Continue Reading
September 27, 2024 – By Robert Passovoy To submit an opinion piece for consideration, contact us here. This Op. Ed. Is in response to the Attainable Housing Strategies Initiative that is being pushed by the Montgomery County Council in the attempt to address the problem of housing shortages in theContinue Reading
August 4, 2024 On Friday August 30, the Supreme Court of Maryland issued its decision in the case of Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition v. Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County. In its finding, the court acknowledges what BACC has been asserting for years: Moses African Cemetery “was a historic Black burialContinue Reading
August 12, 2024 In a follow up to our previous post about the trial against a homeowner for alleged abusive HOA fees, we have the resolution to the court case with a victory going to the homeowner after the HOA dropped their fine. According to this piece on The PatchContinue Reading
August 5, 2024 – Featured image from Patch article credited to MuskratPhotos 6/25/24. Updated on 10/18/2024 for corrections. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – August 1, 2024 – Contact: Steven Lapham – Montgomery County Property Owners – Protest Abusive Homeowner Associations UPDATE: Mr. Segura did, in fact, owe some past “monthly assessments” whichContinue Reading
July 30, 2024 Debate Minds is an organization that started in the DMV by local high school students. It was founded and is led by Eric and Apple from the Bullis School, Ekansh and Jeff from Poolesville High School, Elizabeth from Richard Montgomery High School, Abhay from Jasper High School,Continue Reading
July 26, 2024 – By Sophia Campbell MCPS schools have a reputation for academic excellence and are widely regarded for their high-achieving students, stellar statistics, and competitive atmosphere. The region even ranks among the top 250 school districts throughout the United States—a distinction owed to the schools’ impressive volume ofContinue Reading
July 12, 2024 Introduced today, the new MOCO News Aggregator page will automatically be updated hourly with all of the most recent posts from a variety of local Montgomery County sources. Contact us to request a site be added or removed from the aggregator. You can find the MOCO NewsContinue Reading
July 11, 2024 Later today, Tim Wise a prominent anti-racism educator will be speaking as part of a Montgomery County Public Libraries ‘Contemporary Conversations’ speaker series. The Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition (BACC), a local advocate group “committed to ending the desecration of the historic Moses African Cemetery on River RoadContinue Reading