News & Opinions

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State Board of Education: MCPS Electric Bus Contract Was Illegally Awarded | Montgomery Perspective | Adam Pagnucco | November 7, 2025

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Let's Allocate Food The Way MCPS Allocates IB Placement | Clean Slate MoCo | Michael Bell | October 26, 2025

New controversy hits leaf blower ban: Leaders scramble to eliminate photo enforcement |WUSA 9 | Matt Gregory | November 10, 2025, 11:23 pm, Updated November 10, 2025, 11:24 pm

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Montgomery County: Maryland’s Rising Star

Although Tuesday’s election results may not have been what we hoped for, Montgomery County continues to shine as Maryland’s rising star.

Last year, Montgomery County proudly received the prestigious Samuel Chase Award from the Maryland GOP for being the most outstanding county in the state. This was an exceptional honor, especially for a deep-blue county like ours. 

This achievement is the direct result of the hard work and dedication of our volunteers, women’s clubs, media engagement, and focused social media outreach. To each of you who contributed your time and energy — thank you.

Over the past two years, we’ve seen a turnaround in the number of Republican voters in Montgomery County. After years of steady decline beginning in 2012, our focus on voter engagement and outreach has reversed that trend. Our current leadership is listening to the community and staying focused on clear, common-sense messaging around the issues that matter to the voters:  spending, taxes, public safety, education, transportation, and transparency.

Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD)

Washington, DC Office Phone: (202) 224-4654

Email/Online Contact: Use the official contact form at https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/contact or email via the site’s form.

Senator Angela Alsobrooks (MD)

Washington, DC Office Phone: (202) 224-4524

Official Website Contact Form: https://www.alsobrooks.senate.gov/contact for email correspondence 

God Bless You for Serving

By Dennis Brent Melby

Since the beginning of our great experience in self-governance we've relied on the firm support of the military to ensure our freedom. God bless our US Veterans who've served the people of this great country. Our experiment in democracy, and the republic we founded, has been helped, moved forward and defended by our men and women who served. Some gave so much, serving with honor and distinction. Yes, at times portions of the public didn't honor them, but we should have. They ALL pledged to support and defend the Constitution of the United States - the best in the world so far - and ours was the grand template for so many governments founded after ours.

C-Span coverage of the 2009 luncheon

By Ken Dalecki

News of Dick Cheney's death last week sparked memories of encounters I had during my journalism career with perhaps the most influential and controversial vice president in U.S. history.  His remarkable career evoked admiration from some and disparagement from others.  Once the ultimate GOP insider, Cheney broke ranks in his waning days with MAGA Republicans by opposing President Donald Trump and supporting Liz Cheney, his anti-Trump daughter. 

The details of his long public service are well known and easily available elsewhere.  This is a brief recollection of personal encounters I had with him.

   Crime Reports 

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MCPD News Releases including Missing Children Reports

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Teen Cut Off Ankle Monitor Hours Before Montgomery County Shooting Spree: Police | Daily Voice | Zak Failla | October 31, 2025, 10:39 pm

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Montgomery County Police Department faces critical staff shortage | Fox 5  | Shirin Rajaee | November 4, 2025, 2:45 am

  News & Opinions

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Turn a Private Perk into a Public Crossing

For the past five years a 35 mile hole has existed in the region’s transportation network. Since White’s Ferry shut down in December 2020, over a landing rights dispute on the Virginia shore, there has been no Potomac River crossing between the American Legion Bridge and Point of Rocks. That single closure ripped out a low cost, transportation efficient, low-carbon link that once carried 600 to 800 vehicles a day including commuters, service workers, cyclists, and weekenders who stitched together the economies of western Montgomery and Loudoun counties.

Now comes an opportunity that is both practical and poetic. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has publicly urged the International Monetary Fund to sell its country club property along River Road, the 285 plus acre Bretton Woods Recreation Center beside the C&O Canal and the Potomac. If the IMF is ready to divest, our region should be ready to negotiate a public- private partnership to provide a public park and to restore a river crossing we control.

Call it the “Bretton Woods Crossing,”  a modest, publicly owned, electric‑powered ferry and multiuse river link built on the Bretton Woods property on the Maryland side, paired with a landing on public land in Virginia where no single private owner can lock the gate. This would not be a Beltway‑scale bridge; it would be a right‑sized crossing designed to do what White’s Ferry did well: move a few hundred vehicles and many more bikes and pedestrians each day, keep trips local, and knit communities and labor markets back together without inviting sprawl.

Montgomery Channel

 MCGOP Central Committee member Stacey Sauter interviews Chairman Reardon Sullivan and civic activist Cary Lamari. 

"21 This Week," is a weekly public affairs program focused on issues in Montgomery County, Maryland — government, business, education, social and hot topic issues. This week the guest moderator was MCGOP Central Committee member, Stacey Sauter. In turn, her Republican guest was MCGOP Chairman, Reardon Sullivan. In this week's show they discussed the arrogance of the County Council when it comes to making major decisions; school board boundaries; and the potential sale of the Bretton Woods Recreation Club in Germantown.