ABOUT MOCO ROOT
Moco Root is about technology news. Technology news for Montgomery County, Maryland. We cover local tech companies and startups and the people building them, the county's tech workforce, and government's own technology decisions: IT procurement and contracts, data centers and the land-use fights, school-system ed-tech, public-safety technology, broadband and digital equity, and AI adoption inside county and municipal government.
"Local tech companies, government IT, data centers, school tech ‐ aggregated in one place."
Alongside the news feed, Moco Root publishes a weekly podcast going deeper on the stories behind the headlines ‐ original reporting drawn from public records, budget documents, meeting audio, and conversations with the people building and driving technology in the county.
Moco Root is produced by Keith Vance, a Gaithersburg-based software engineer and reporter who founded and publishes GburgNews, an independent outlet covering Gaithersburg city government and Montgomery County since 2024. Moco Root extends that same accountability-reporting approach ‐ verifying what officials and companies claim against documents and budgets.
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