Montgomery Community Media

Montgomery County Council President Sidney Katz will host the third in a series of online business briefings on the economic challenges the County faces due to the Covid-19 public health emergency. The next online briefing takes place Friday, May 15 at 12:30 p.m. Benjamin Wu, president and CEO of the Montgomery County Economic Development Corporation, […]

Update (March 18): Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce (MCCC) announced it has rescheduled its 46th Annual Public Safety Awards luncheon for June 29. The luncheon is from 10 to 2 p.m. at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center in Rockville. It will be emceed by NBC Washington’s evening anchor Jim Handly and Telemundo […]

Get Real Health, an award-winning, healthcare technology company, has expanded its corporate offices at 51 Monroe Street in the city of Rockville. Local leaders, including Rockville Mayor Bridget Newton and County Councilmembers Roger Berliner, Nancy Floreen and Sidney Katz attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new offices Tuesday. Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce CEO Gigi […]

The minimum wage in Montgomery County will increase to $11.50 effective July 1, which is roughly $4 more than the federal minimum of $7.25 per hour. In this MyMCMedia Extra video, Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce President and CEO, Gigi Godwin, discusses the reaction from some local businesses:  

Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett joined other county business leaders for the launch of a new web portal aimed to provide residents with county resources for starting and maintaining a business in Montgomery County. The launch of the new business portal, which took place at the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce office in Rockville, is […]

Montgomery and Prince George’s County business community and officials from both counties met in Silver Spring on April 20 to launch a final 30 day “Purple Countdown Action Plan.” Alexander Metcalf, CEO and president of TEMS, Inc., presented a summary of his findings on the economic impact of the Purple Line. According to Metcalf’s conclusion, the […]

Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett May 16 joined Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr. and Speaker of the House Michael E. Busch at the bill signing for the Transportation Infrastructure Investment Act of 2013. Leggett has been an outspoken advocate for an increase in transportation funding revenues. “The Washington region […]

Area leaders and the business community are worried about the impacts on the local economy if sequestration goes in effect on March 1. Maryland has 130,000 federal workers whose salaries could be cut 20 percent due to furloughs and in fiscal year 2012, Montgomery County alone had $5 billion in prime federal contracting awards that […]