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After President Donald Trump was discharged from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Monday evening, where he was treated for coronavirus, County Executive Marc Elrich tweeted a message to the president: As you celebrate, we are thinking about the over 210,000 Americans, and over 800 of our neighbors, lost to COVID. Fear didn’t take their […]

Following a new federal order halting residential evictions, community organization CASA, along with over 80 organizations, calls on state officials to reconvene for a special session. The new order, issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, goes into effect Sept. 4 and goes through Dec. 31 of this year. Under this order, landlords […]

Tras una nueva orden federal para detener los desalojos residenciales, la organización comunitaria CASA, junto a más de 80 organizaciones, pide a representantes estatales que se reúnan para una sesión especial. La nueva orden, emitida por los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC), entra en vigor el 4 de septiembre y […]

John Compton, the mayor of Washington Grove, says the absence of a functioning post office would have a “devastating effect” on his small town, which takes up 200 acres of land. Washington Grove, the historical “town within a forest,” was incorporated in 1937, and is home to around 555 people with about 200 households. The […]

“Put your mask on,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) was heard calling at Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who was speaking out of turn during a House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday. “Put your mask on,” he repeated. The hearing featured the CEOs of big tech companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon. It also came the same […]

Gov. Larry Hogan isn’t worried about President Donald Trump’s threats to cut federal funding to schools that choose not to fully reopen in the fall. As the summer hits its halfway point and with coronavirus numbers spiking throughout the country, many states are unsure what to do regarding their schools in the fall. Some areas […]

Montgomery County Parks officials are asking residents to be patient as the department gradually reopens playgrounds across the county. They are urging park users to use precautions, such as face masks and social distancing to stay safe. The reopenings began on Monday, and Montgomery County Planning Board Chair Casey Anderson says it will take about […]

Los Institutos Nacionales de Salud de Bethesda (NIH) están lanzando una asociación público-privada con la esperanza de acelerar el trabajo para crear una vacuna COVID-19 y opciones de tratamiento, anunció el NIH el 17 de abril. El NIH, junto con la Fundación para el NIH, se unió a más de una docena de compañías bio-farmacéuticas […]

The National Institutes of Health in Bethesda is launching a public-private partnership in hopes of accelerating work to create a COVID-19 vaccine and treatment options, it announced April 17. The NIH, along with the Foundation for the NIH, joined more than a dozen biopharmaceutical companies and federal government agencies as well as the European Medicines […]

Montgomery County Department of Transportation announced that Ride On passengers will be required to wear face coverings aboard buses starting Thursday. Earlier this week, the county government provided Ride On bus operators with face coverings. MCDOT said in a statement that any passenger that does not comply with this mandate “may be directed not to […]