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July 1, 2025 By Justin Linn Montgomery County is moving forward with a ban on gas-powered leaf blowers, citing strong environmental and public health benefits. While the primary goal of the ban is to reduce disruptive noise for residents and workers, county officials emphasize that the policy also brings majorContinue Reading

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November 18, 2024 – By A.J. Campbell In an election that will be remembered for its unexpected outcomes, Takoma Park witnessed two incumbents lose their seats in the recent 2024 city council races—a rare occurrence in the city’s political landscape. Ward 1’s incumbent, Shana Fulcher, was unseated by challenger JessicaContinue Reading

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October 28, 2024 I tuned in and live tweeted the Mar Elrich, the County Executive’s initial community conversation on the MCPS FY26 budget today (October 28, 2024) This is an initial discussion on a budget that will be ongoing for the next 5-6 months before being finalized by the CountyContinue Reading

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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

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February 20, 2024 On February 16, 2024 County Executive Marc Elrich submitted the following comments about the Takoma Park Minor Master Plan. We will show a summarization of the main parts first, followed by the County Department recommendations and then a link to the full PDF. Advertisement Overall Comments “TheContinue Reading

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January 14th, 2024. This article summary is based on this X/Twitter thread by Esther Wells (used with permission). Full video: 1/12 Montgomery County House Delegation Meeting (youtube.com) Starting Now: 1/12 Montgomery County House Delegation Meeting. Weekly cadence of Fridays at 9am to keep up with what’s going on. CE ElrichContinue 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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Background A lot has been made of the Montgomery County budget recommended by County Executive Elrich. Including our previous piece on it here discussing the lack of accountability and declining services. There has also been a lot of back and forth between the County Council, County Exec, residents and theContinue Reading

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In: Artificial Intelligence, County Council, County Executive, Government, Local Government, Maryland, Satire

Using AI we have been working on creating Montgomery County politicians as Lego characters. Bookmark this page as we will continue to update it as more are announced on our social media pages. Advertisement Republican Robin Ficker MCPS Superintendent Monifa McKnight County Executive Marc ElrichContinue Reading

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Background A few days ago, Fox5DC reported that “New evidence is showing that more people are moving out of Montgomery County and into Frederick County.” Montgomery County Exec Marc Elrich seemed to rebut this in a Twitter post where he quotes this website post which is a top Google hitContinue Reading