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October 12, 2023 – 10:30AM We got a tip yesterday that Dr. Patrick Murphy, deputy superintendent is no longer employed by MCPS. Murphy was one of the high-ranking school officials who participated in the County Council Meeting about two weeks ago. He is still listed as the Deputy Superintendent onContinue Reading

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October 11, 2023 At last night’s MCDCC meeting there were a few notable events, though you’d have to have been there to see it. The MCDCC has appointed about 40% of local representatives at the state level where incumbents nearly always win as well making these long term appointments. LegislatorsContinue Reading

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October 4th, 2023 – Moderately MOCO received the following letter Subject: Unless There is an Immediate Change in Leadership, Please Skip the MCDCC Fall Gala My Fellow Democrats: I am writing to you as a party leader and longtime donor today because I, like you, have been hearing and readingContinue Reading

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In: Community Feedback, Community Reports, Local Government, Lt. Governor, MCDCC, Pieter Friedrich

Court records show two committee members owe hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax liens to the IRS ROCKVILLE, MD – September 26, 2023 – By Pieter Friedrich It appears that Montgomery County’s Democratic Party just can’t catch a break. Barely a month after Moderately MoCo first broke the storyContinue Reading

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By Andrew Messick The Gaithersburg city council race is heating up with the scheduled first debate already to go and the candidates set at six with two incumbents and one second-time candidate. There is a spread of moderate to progressive and various ideas new and old. Candidates The six candidates,Continue Reading

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Today the Montgomery County Board of Education provided an update on the Beidleman report. The MoCo BOE only publicly posts on X (formerly known as Twitter), we wanted to share with you any updates to this case since not everyone is on that platform. There is a letter to localContinue Reading

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September 2, 2023 Coming off back to back 4A State Championships, Quince Orchard High School Football Team had a different start to this season traveling to Virginia to face South County (a top Virginia High School). Quince Orchard will play with a target on their back all season as aContinue Reading

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In: City of Gaithersburg, Community Feedback, Elections, Government, Information, Local Government, Pieter Friedrich, Uncategorized

September 1, 2023 – GAITHERSBURG, MD – By Pieter Friedrich Yamil Hernández launched his campaign for Gaithersburg City Council today with a cheeky lego-block digital video proving that creativity in politics is not dead after all. “Gaithersburg welcomed me with open arms,” Hernández says in the video. “This is whereContinue Reading

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August 21, 2023 – Christian Lee Full video interview aired on YouTube July 11, 2023 Being a police officer is a rewarding, albeit demanding job.  Similar to school teachers, cafeteria workers, and guidance counselors, policemen sacrifice every hour of every day in order to serve our students and protect ourContinue Reading

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In: Administrators, BOE, Community Interviews, Education & Culture, Government, Local Government, MCPS

A reader wrote in to share their terrible experiences at Farquhard MS with Joel Beidelman as principal without revealing their identity… The full incident details are quite severe, but details have been removed to protect identities. For those not familiar with the current events surrounding Joel Beidelman, he was recentlyContinue Reading