The Montgomery County Council votes Tuesday afternoon on handing a solar developer 20 acres of the capped Gude Landfill in Rockville for the next 30 years. The public hearing and the vote are the same agenda item, set for 1:30 p.m. The terms are straightforward. Community Power Group LLC, aContinue Reading
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
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
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
Takoma Park began installing stop-sign cameras operated by Obvio as part of a four-year pilot program approved by the City Council. The first installations went into service in December 2025 and January 2026. At the initial locations, drivers received warnings beginning December 8, 2025, and citations began January 8, 2026,Continue Reading
A power problem at the Potomac Water Filtration Plant, which supplies about 75 percent of WSSC Water customers, prompted an immediate essential-use-only request across Montgomery and Prince George’s counties. Water is safe and there is no boil advisory.Continue Reading
A school bus driver was pronounced dead Tuesday afternoon after the bus left Central Avenue near Frederick Road in Gaithersburg and struck a utility pole. No students were on board. The driver “likely experienced a medical emergency” before the bus veered into trees and hit the pole, Montgomery County FireContinue Reading
Submitted by Robert Stubblefield and Mike Puskar. As the Board of Elections finished tabulating votes in Montgomery County’s Democratic primary for County Council At-Large, perhaps the most intriguing story is not simply who won the race, but who may have emerged as its most consequential new political figure. That distinctionContinue Reading
While much of the attention following Tuesday’s primary has focused on the race for Montgomery County Executive, the closest contest on the ballot may actually be for the fourth and final Democratic nomination for Montgomery County Council At-Large. With all 257 Election Day precincts reporting, three candidates appear to holdContinue Reading
This post is part of the Moderately MOCO Candidate Introduction Series. Candidates who did not receive the questionnaire via email or need more information can get access through our contact form. The information in this post was submitted directly by the candidate and does not represent the views of ModeratelyContinue Reading