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What Would Governor Moore Say About Rockville’s Flag? — Montgomery Fix Governor Wes Moore's comments this week about Maryland's revered flag sparked a tsunami of negative backlash. Moore described the state's flag as a “contradiction,” pointing out how it merges the red ...

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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗪𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗚𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗼𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝘆 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲’𝘀 𝗙𝗹𝗮𝗴?

Wootton Celebrates Victory in Battle for Crown GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Rockville leaders and members of the Wootton High School community took a ceremonial victory lap around a snow-covered construction site at the soon-to-be-complete Crown facility ...

𝗪𝗼𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗩𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻

Wall of Silence Surrounds MoCo Press Rules — Montgomery Fix Publisher’s Note: This article is reprinted from the October 1, 2024 post on Montgomery Leek Montgomery County adopted its first formal policy restricting who may ask questions at Council Presi...

Until you reveal the who, how, when where and why behind the secret Council press access rules you approved when Council President, you have NO place in this discussion. You've destroyed your street cred as a former CNN reporter.
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Let’s Remove Our Own Snow — Montgomery Fix It was five days after the January 24–25 snowstorm before I was finally able to get my car out and search for food, drink, entertainment, and the other necessities a modern hunter-gatherer requires to...

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𝗟𝗲𝘁’𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗢𝘄𝗻 𝗦𝗻𝗼𝘄

Interview: Jim McNulty’s Workforce Housing Down Payment Assistance Proposal — Montgomery Fix At-Large Montgomery County Council candidate Jim McNulty has proposed a countywide workforce housing down payment assistance fund aimed at helping long-term renters and essential workers purchase th...

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𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: 𝗝𝗶𝗺 𝗠𝗰𝗡𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘆’𝘀 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗹

A Stark Snow Divide Between Rockville and MoCo — Montgomery Fix Following the snowstorm eight days ago, Montgomery Fix visited two adjacent neighborhoods in central Montgomery County to examine how snow removal compared on streets separated by jurisdiction. On on...

𝗔 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗦𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗖𝗼
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Sidewalks, Narrow Roads May FORCE Monday MCPS Closures — Montgomery Fix Site visits today by Montgomery Fix to schools in the Rockville High School cluster found school campuses themselves in excellent condition following last weekend’s snow and ice storm, but access ro...

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𝗦𝗶𝗱𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘀, 𝗡𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄 𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗠𝗖𝗣𝗦 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀

Who is the Winner in the War on Gas Appliances? — Montgomery Fix The County Council, along with state and federal government policy makers, is conducting a war on gas appliances. In 2022, the County Council passed Bill 13-22, directing the County Executive to adopt...

Who is the Winner in the War on Gas Appliances?

APRE Opposes Relocating Wootton High School Group petitions Board of Education to keep school at current location

𝗔𝗣𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗽𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗼𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹

MCDOT Concierge Class Snow Plow Service Announced Amid Winter Storm Frustrations Participating households will receive priority routing for snow plows

𝗠𝗖𝗗𝗢𝗧 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗦𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗣𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗺𝗶𝗱 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗙𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀

Virginia Exploits Storm to Build Light Pollution Barrier Northern Virginia officials scrambled overnight to redeploy snow removal assets and secure additional contract crews after recognizing that an epic winter storm pummeling the region provided a decenni...

Virginia Exploits Storm to Build Light Pollution Barrier

Bill Introduced to Study Environmental and Community Impacts of Spheres Montgomery County Councilmember Evan Glass today announced legislation to create a formal, transparent review process for Sphere entertainment center applications in the county. The proposal responds ...

Bill Introduced to Study Environmental and Community Impacts of Spheres

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MCPS Announces “Option O,” the Cladosporium Consortium Schools to share one massive campus at former COMSAT Lab

MCPS Announces “Option O,” the Cladosporium Consortium

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Baby Delivered on I-270 Misses Kindergarten Enrollment Deadline A baby delivered on southbound I-270 near the Montrose Road exit ramp in Rockville will have to wait a year to enroll in kindergarten thanks to traffic gridlock. Parents Miles and Sienna Parker and...

Baby Delivered on I-270 Misses Kindergarten Enrollment Deadline

Top Five Potato Leek Soup Spots in Montgomery County For years, The Montgomery Leek (formerly The Montg“O-word”) published its annual O-word Soup List, a proud civic tradition honoring deeply caramelized alliums and legally uncomplicated headlines....

Top Five Potato Leek Soup Spots in Montgomery County

Wu Busted on Hot Mic: "More Cash, Less Crap" GAITHERSBURG, Md. — What was supposed to be a slick campaign kickoff for the Maryland House of Delegates devolved into an embarrassing hot mic moment, courtesy of District 39 candidate Robert Wu spil...

Wu Busted on Hot Mic: "More Cash, Less Crap"

Peers Blast Fani-González for Leadership Failure Just one month into her term, Montgomery County Council President Natali Fani-González is facing a mountain of criticism from peers who say she is failing to meet key expectations. “We had an understa...

Peers Blast Fani-González for Leadership Failure
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Gaithersburg Celebrates Complaint-Free Streak Officials in Gaithersburg are crowing today after the city's Community Impact Committee reported zero complaints related to dog waste left on private property during the first seven days of the year. ...

Gaithersburg Celebrates Complaint-Free Streak

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One Dollar Bills to be Phased Out in Montgomery County The U.S. one dollar bill will be phased out of all cash transactions in Montgomery County, Maryland starting January 1, 2027, County Executive Marc Elrich announced today. He signed an executive order...

One Dollar Bills to be Phased Out in Montgomery County

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Five Biggest Leeks of 2025 (Satirical Stories) 2025 was a great year for Montgomery Leek . Our readership grew by 38 percent! Although we expanded into non-satirical entertainment, lifestyle and politics reporting, our humor content still caught ...

Five Biggest Leeks of 2025 (Satirical Stories)
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Friedson Vows to Reopen White's Ferry Hundreds of residents and elected officials gathered in frigid temperatures at White's Ferry yesterday to rally for the reopening of the Potomac River crossing, five years after a property owner dispu...

Friedson Vows to Reopen White's Ferry

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Glass Unveils “Collision Zero” Initiative Plan eliminates devastating structure collisions countywide by 2036

𝗚𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗨𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗶𝗹𝘀 “𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗭𝗲𝗿𝗼” 𝗜𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲
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The Montgonion is now Montgomery Leek Three years ago, we were an upstart, scrappy satire site poking fun at Montgomery County life and politics from the outside. Somewhere along the way, that changed. The Montgonion stopped being just...

The Montgonion is now Montgomery Leek

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‘Thrilla in Travilah’ to Decide Wootton's Fate The battle over the future of Wootton High School moves to the squared circle next month in a heavyweight match billed as the “Thrilla in Travilah.” Rockville Councilmember Adam Van Grack and Gaithers...

‘Thrilla in Travilah’ to Decide Wootton's Fate

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ICC Extension Renders White’s Ferry Obsolete

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Glen Echo Puppet Theater Renamed for JD Vance Officials in Glen Echo announced today that the historic Glen Echo Puppet Theater has been officially renamed the Vance Echo Chamber Puppet Palladium. The announcement comes hot on the heels of the Ke...

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