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After a month online, it's time for That's Silver Spring to beat its chest a little.

Today, the Gazette (the Washington Post local that killed my commercial real estate column after nine years in April), finally chased my June 12th story on redevelopment of The Blairs, which is the biggest project to move forward in Silver Spring since Discovery Communications moved there in 2003.

So what else have the Gazette and its owner, The Washington Post, not been covering?

How about the future of the National Labor College, which had been a source of burning concern for both the Gazette and the Post? Well, neither has bothered to chase my story that the Amalgamated Transit Union plans to buy the prime property in the White Oak science gateway area.

And neither has followed my story that another furniture store has moved into the space vacated by Giant Food in Plaza Del Mercado, where nearby residents have been calling and petitioning and praying for a new grocery store.

And neither news outlet cares enough about my backyard to duplicate my report that WMATA plans to demolish and redevelop the abandoned KFC eyesore it owns next to the Glenmont Metro station.

And finally, neither of my Big Print rivals care like I do that Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett has sharpened a stick to spur redevelopment in his neighborhood by soliciting plans to build a grocery store next to where Giant Food stands in the way of repopulating the almost empty Burtonsville Crossing strip mall.

So, keep reading the Gazette or Washington Post if you want to hire a handyman. But read That's Silver Spring first if you want the news.