Montgomery Community Media

In this MyMCMedia extra, County Council at-large candidate Marc Elrich, a democrat, talks about taxes and says he believes developers need to pay taxes for infrastructure in Montgomery County.  Take a look: Elrich and the other candidates running for the at large County Council seats participated in a candidates forum at MCM on Oct. 13. […]

Montgomery County Councilmember Hans Riemer, the Council’s lead member for digital government, today was one of three local government leaders on civic technology to join the Free Law Founders (FLF) Foundation. Along with Councillor Nadeem Mazen of Cambridge, Mass., and Traci Hughes, the director of the Office of Open Government for the District of Columbia, […]

The Montgomery County Council has appointed the first Hispanic to the Montgomery County Planning Board. Visit our PEG partner County Cable Montgomery to view more of its local programming. Related:

The Montgomery County Council today unanimously enacted Bill 16-14, which will allow candidates for County Council and County Executive to qualify for partial public financing for their campaigns. This is the first measure of its type for County elective offices in the Washington Region and in the State of Maryland. Councilmember Phil Andrews was the […]

Some Montgomery County Councilmembers are proposing legislation for the use of drones by county departments. Find out more in this report: Visit our PEG partner County Cable Montgomery to view more of its local programming.  

Montgomery County Council Vice President George Leventhal, who chairs the Council’s Health and Human Services Committee, at 7 p.m. tonight is slated to be presented with the 2014 Dr. Henry and Page Laughlin Montgomery County Medical Society Distinguished Public Official Award at a dinner at the Bethesda North Marriott. In a letter informing Council Vice […]

Here are five things to know today, Sept. 16, in Montgomery County: 1. The Montgomery County Council meets today and on the agenda is a status report on the Silver Spring Transit Center. 2. The public is invited to weigh in on the Rockville Pike Plan at a meeting tonight. 3. The search continues for […]

This week Montgomery County Councilmembers approved the White Oak Science Gateway Master Plan giving a new vision to the eastern part of the county. Susan Kenedy reports. Visit our PEG partner County Cable Montgomery to view more of its local programming.

Some development projects take more than three years to clear Montgomery County’s planning hurdles, according to a report released by the Office of Legislative Oversight Tuesday. The report  examines the review and approval timeframes for preliminary plans, site plans and record plats for development projects in Montgomery County. The report found that certain projects that are […]

The Montgomery County Council is scheduled to hold its final discussions and then vote on the White Oak Science Gateway Master Plan at 1:30 p.m. on July 29. The plan will guide transformation of the area on the east side of the County around the Route 29 corridor and the Food and Drug Administration into […]