Top 5 Non-Satirical Leeks of 2025: Geography, Politics and Weed
In 2025 we expanded into non-satirical entertainment, lifestyle and politics reporting—and readership grew by 38 percent! Our content ranged from polls to history to government affairs, but it was geography that captured the most clicks. Ranked by readership with links in the headlines, these are our top five non-satirical stories from 2025:
1. Wall of Silence Surrounds MoCo Press Rules
As a result of our own experience being prohibited from Montgomery County press conferences, we discovered County Council media access policies were secretly created and approved in 2023. Our investigation exposed serious deficiencies in government rule making, transparency and press freedom. Our top non-satirical story of 2025 is ongoing—we appealed to the Public Access Ombudsman last year and expect meaningful disclosures from the county this month.
The Hectic Hill Lane enclave is the only one of its kind in Rockville, a municipal enclave that resisted absorption when others were annexed decades ago.
Someone had to do it. More than 2,500 cannabis connoisseurs took our poll to select the #1 weed shop in Montgomery County.
The northernmost portion of Montgomery County is a mile-long, sparsely populated, needle-like tip. Our deep historical dive revealed why and explored the only four-county quadripoint in Maryland.
Just for fun and to satisfy our own curiosity, we found the three smallest homes for sale in Montgomery County—all condos under $200K—and took a look at what each had to offer.
