Montgomery Community Media

Liquor control legislation continues to be a hot button issue among local leaders. In this MyMCMedia Extra video, Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett talks about how removing the monopoly would impact taxpayers.  

Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett has released a list of Montgomery County’s priorities for the 2016 session of the Maryland General Assembly, which convenes in Annapolis on January 13. Highlights of the County priorities include increased State funding for school construction, transit, and roads, and support for ongoing County economic development and job initiatives. Both […]

Montgomery County Councilmember Roger Berliner said he supports State Delegate Bill Frick’s bill that would call for a referendum on the 2016 ballot about liquor control in Montgomery County. In this MyMCMedia Extra video, Berliner is asked by reporters about his position on liquor control and what a change in the system could mean for […]

Here are your five things to know today, Nov. 13, in Montgomery County: 1. Homicides are up in Montgomery County this year. 2. Dave and Busters is one of several businesses that has signed a lease at Ellsworth Place in downtown Silver Spring. 3. Eight of Montgomery County’s nine Councilmembers have sent a letter to […]

Last year, the council’s ad hoc committee on liquor control began work on a set of proposals to improve how that department does business here in the county. After numerous public hearings and discussions, the committee came up with a proposal to partially privatize liquor sales. Susan Kenedy has the story. Visit our PEG partner […]

Montgomery County Councilmember Hans Riemer, who chairs the Council’s Ad Hoc Committee on Liquor Control, made the following statement on Tuesday after the Council unanimously approved a resolution that takes a major step in reforming the County’s Department of Liquor Control: “Since the end of prohibition in 1933, Montgomery County government has barred private restaurants […]

Montgomery County Councilmember Roger Berliner has released a statement about a Council resolution passed today about reforming the county’s liquor control system. “Today the County Council unanimously passed a resolution that asks our State delegation to reform a significant part of the County’s antiquated liquor control system. “For nine years I have asked myself why […]

Here are your five things to know today, July 21, in Montgomery County: 1. Pepco Savings Day: It’s going to be another hot one today, and Pepco is asking its customers to conserve energy. 2. Local Legislation: The Montgomery County Council is expected to take action on Bill 17-15 today that addresses predatory towing of […]

A Montgomery County Ad Hoc Committee has been studying the operations of the county’s department of liquor control. Council President George Leventhal talked about this at his weekly briefing with reporters in this video: Visit our PEG partner County Cable Montgomery to view more of its local programming.

The Montgomery County Council’s Ad Hoc Committee on Liquor Control will introduce a resolution at 9:40 a.m. on Tuesday, June 30, that asks Maryland lawmakers to change State law to permit the wholesale distribution of special order beer and wine products in Montgomery County by private wholesalers. According to a news release, amending Maryland law […]