A March 4 Maryland Reporter.com article announces that the Gazette of Politics and Business will be dropping its longstanding and well-regarded political section and will instead more narrowly focus on news from a Montgomery County political perspective.

The Gazette of Politics and Business, the only paid publication in a chain of  weeklies in Montgomery, Prince George’s and Frederick counties, is apparently  dropping much of the politics and becoming the Business Gazette, with one  reporter covering State House news from a Montgomery County perspective.  …

Missing will be those enterprise stories from the angle of a State House insider  that used to make the Gazette something you really had to pick up each Friday.