Here’s what Rockville and Gaithersburg candidates have to say about housing and transportation

Gaithersburg and Rockville are the third- and fourth-largest cities in Maryland, with nearly 70,000 residents each. These two Montgomery County municipalities regularly top lists of the nation’s most diverse places and are the backbone of the region’s biotech industry. It’s in Rockville where scientists mapped the human genome and found a potential HIV cure, and in Gaithersburg where they discovered a COVID-19 vaccine. What happens here has echoes that go way beyond the borders.