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 a satire site and became something closer to a pressure valve. People inside the system started coming to us: county council members, state delegates, MCPS leaders, and local officials in Gaithersburg, Rockville, and Takoma Park. We had to block Marc Elrich because he called so much.

They came to us because satire can say what traditional media won’t. When people can’t speak openly, they leak. Which brings us to the new name.

Introducing Montgomery Leek

Yes, it’s a vegetable.
Yes, it’s a pun.

A leek is layered, versatile, and pungent, but very much its own thing. Swap an e for an a and it's a place where information seeps out of sealed systems and into public view.

We’re not a traditional newsroom or watchdog group. But satire has become the safest way for insiders to expose absurdity, hypocrisy, and dysfunction without putting their names on the line. So, The Montgonion has evolved into Montgomery Leek.

Same voice.
Same targets.
Same absurdity, and really dumb community pranks too.

Welcome to Montgomery Leek. If something doesn't smell right, it's probably us.

Publisher' Note: The timing of our name change and that Cease and Desist letter from Global Tetrahedron, owner of The Onion, are purely coincidental.