Montgomery Community Media

Update, 7:30 a.m. Friday: The Montgomery County Police will discuss the use of force in an Aspen Hill arrest with the State’s Attorney, after cellphone video showed an officer kneeing a prostrate man. “There may be criminal charges out of this,” said Capt. Thomas Jordan, a police spokesman, on Friday morning. In the video, posted […]

Catherine Hoggle, the mother accused of killing two of her children nearly five years ago, has spent most of the time since then at Clifton Perkins Hospital Center in Jessup, a maximum-security psychiatric hospital. That could change in August. Based on the hospital’s psychiatric evaluations, judges have ruled Hoggle incompetent to stand trial. Montgomery County […]

The Federal Communications Commission is considering a change in the way PEG channels — public, education and government channels — will be funded. Cable companies would no longer be required to use franchise fees to support the PEG channels they carry. Organizations like Montgomery Community Media and the television channels that serve the county at […]

Nearly every taxpayer has asked the same question: Where the-hello-dolly does my tax money go? Montgomery County is now offering you a receipt. A new tool on the county website lets taxpayers enter their home assessments and their estimated incomes to see line-by-line receipts of what the money paid for. “You’ll be able to put […]

Today is July 1. Mostly sunny today, but the rest of the week looks so-so. Here’s the forecast. 1. Metro Turnbacks: Montgomery County Councilmembers will celebrate the ending of the “Metro turnbacks” at an 8:30 a.m. event at the Wheaton Metro Station, 11171 Georgia Ave. Half of the outbound Red Line trains stop at Silver […]

The gym might be a “judgment free zone” but the county health department has judged its free pizzas and bagels out of bounds. Planet Fitness has been told that it can no longer offer its monthly free pizza nights or free bagel mornings because it’s a state health code violation. Health department spokesperson Mary Anderson […]

John Delaney was part of a debate last night, and the Internet couldn’t stop busting his chops. BREAKING: Jay Inslee, John Delaney, and Tim Ryan have spontaneously fused into a jar of mayonnaise #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/zq2oSwFrdg — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) June 27, 2019 https://twitter.com/jpcrotc/status/1144074570120536064?s=12 John Delaney out here looking like the villain from Air Bud. […]

Capt. Sonia Pruitt, the first African-American woman to reach that rank, has the job of overseeing the force’s interactions with the community. She says she’s up to the job even though people of color have expressed their distrust of the county police. Pruitt talks about that and more on Montgomery Talks. Available now on MyMCMedia, […]

The co-chair of Gov. Larry Hogan’s Redistricting Reform Commission said Thursday’s Supreme Court decision on gerrymandering sends the effort for new boundaries for Maryland’s Sixth Congressional District back to square one. “This is likely to close the door on the Maryland litigation, which means the hopes that the plaintiffs had for a court remedy for […]

Council names Casey Anderson chair of Montgomery County Planning Board for second full term and Partap Verma as new Planning Board member. The Montgomery County Council approved both men unanimously. The five-member board deals with land-use issues in the 323,000-acre county and manages the county’s 36,500-acre park system. It reports to the council. This will […]