The Washington Inquisitor
Montgomery County
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Texas passes Virginia in Pentagon contract work as D.C. region draws $80 billion
Texas overtook Virginia in fiscal 2025 as the top state for Pentagon contract work, driven by Lockheed Martin, USAspending data show. Virginia, Maryland and D.C. still drew about $80.1 billion in obligations.
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Montgomery Council to hear bills adding executive appointees and moving 16 senior jobs out of merit system
Expedited Bills 49-26 and 50-26, sponsored by Councilmember Will Jawando, would add two assistant CAOs and make deputy directors, office heads and four fire division chiefs executive appointees. The sign-up deadline to…
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Montgomery bill requiring smoke escape hoods in high-rise rentals heads to work session
Bill 43-26 would require rental buildings of five or more stories to stock smoke escape hoods for firefighters. Fire officials back it; landlords say it misplaces responsibility and would raise rents.
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Montgomery County robberies down 41% this year as vehicle thefts climb, county data show
An Inquisitor analysis of dataMontgomery records finds robberies down 41% and burglaries down 28% through Oct. 22, and vehicle thefts up 13%. Most of this year’s obscene-material records were logged at a…
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Inspector general records detail two years without recorded leave by Montgomery County’s former police chief
Montgomery County inspector general reports reviewed Friday by a Council committee lay out the former police chief’s unrecorded absences, a 8,863-hour sick leave balance, a false statement to investigators and a county…