Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett, the son of a sawmill laborer who rose from the Jim Crow South to become a Howard University law professor and chairman of the Maryland Democratic Party, said Tuesday he will not seek a fourth ...

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A Montgomery County official is returning a $296,000 check meant to pay for riot aid to Baltimore. The Baltimore Sun reports County Executive Isiah Leggett wrote to Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake this week, saying, “… we accepted the call for assistance with ...

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The newly-minted Montgomery County Economic Development Corp., which took over for a pair of now-defunct entities on July 1, is making cybersecurity its first priority. The corporation has just commissioned a survey to “take the pulse” of the cyber ecosystem ...

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GERMANTOWN — Top officials in Montgomery County will be signing a statement reaffirming the county’s solidarity with the Muslim community. Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett and County Council President Nancy Floreen will sign the statement on Thursday at an event ...

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Adventist HealthCare doesn’t just see its new hospital as a modern facility to treat the sick but as a vehicle for new research partnerships and economic growth in Montgomery County. The new, $331 million Washington Adventist Hospital will be in ...

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Local leaders from three heavily Democratic areas will meet with reporters to offer a contrarian view of last year under Republican Gov. Larry Hogan.

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Montgomery County will soon have a direct, fiber-optic link to the area of Virginia that some call “the center of the Internet.” Florida-based USA FIBER is preparing to build a fiber link between Ashburn, Va. and Baltimore that will pass ...

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Montgomery County is testing a way to bring super-fast Internet access to businesses and residents without the cost of installing new fiber-optic cable. The initiative, known as “ultraGig,” brings a one-gigabit-per-second wireless broadband connection to the county’s Silver Spring Innovation ...

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Montgomery County Executive Isiah “Ike” Leggett was vindicated. Supporters of hydraulic fracturing in Maryland probably took a two-year setback.

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WHEATON — Montgomery County is launching a new initiative to stop panhandling and prevent accidents. WRC-TV reports that County Executive Isiah Leggett will announce the new program called “Give a Hand-Up, Not a Hand-Out” on Monday in Wheaton. The program ...

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