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Montgomery County Public Schools is investigating the involvement of a Quince Orchard social studies teacher who appears to have visited Washington D.C. on Jan. 6 to participate in a pro-Trump rally aimed at overturning the results of the 2020 election. The news was first reported by Fox 5. Former President Donald Trump spoke at the […]

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 […]

Gov. Larry Hogan’s memoir “Still Standing: Surviving Cancer, Riots, a Global Pandemic and the Toxic Politics that Divide America” was released Tuesday. In the memoir, Hogan details his life from his childhood growing up in Maryland with a father who worked in politics to his experience battling the coronavirus pandemic as the governor of Maryland. […]

Gov. Larry Hogan announced on social media the release of his upcoming memoir “Still Standing: Surviving Cancer, Riots, a Global Pandemic, and the Toxic Politics that Divide America.” The memoir is cowritten by Ellis Henican, a political analyst on Fox News. Amazon describes the memoir as detailing Hogan’s time as Maryland Governor and his unexpected […]

The Reopen America Act of 2020 (RAA), introduced by U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D) on April 17, includes the creation of the Coronavirus Health Equipment Production Board, Raskin said during a press call Friday. The board will evaluate supplies and equipment needs and obtain and distribute such equipment.  Raskin said the federal government pushed states […]

U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D), of Maryland’s 8th Congressional District, reacted to the White House Coronavirus Task Force’s bleak announcement about coronavirus fatalities. President Donald Trump announced at the task force’s press briefing Tuesday that a minimum of 100,000 to 240,000 Americans will die because of the coronavirus. In an interview with MyMCMedia on Wednesday, […]

The Montgomery County Council sat as the Board of Health at a meeting Tuesday.  The first topic on the agenda was a COVID-19 update from County Health Officer and Chief of Public Health Services Dr. Travis Gayles and Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security Director Earl Stoddard.  Gayles noted that circumstances have changed since […]

Durante una reunión informativa del Grupo de Trabajo sobre Coronavirus el martes, el Secretario del Tesoro de los Estados Unidos, Steve Mnuchin, dijo que la administración apoya poner en ley un paquete de estímulo para que los estadounidenses reciban apoyo financiero durante la crisis. “Estamos buscando enviar cheques a los estadounidenses de inmediato”, dijo Mnuchin, […]

During a Coronavirus Task Force briefing Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin said the administration supports putting into law a stimulus package for Americans for financial support during the outbreak.  “We’re looking at sending checks to Americans immediately,” Mnuchin said. He said people need money now and that President Donald Trump wants to […]

President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and members of the Coronavirus Task Force held a briefing at the White House Monday to announce new CDC guidelines to stop the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. The president said there are steps Americans can take in the next 15 days to best lower the infection rate […]