Montgomery Community Media

Montgomery County Council President Craig Rice met with the media on April 28. Rice focused on the budget, schools, school resource officers and school bus cameras during his briefing with the media. He also said the next Silver Spring Transit Center update is scheduled for May 6. You can watch his briefing in its entirety […]

Montgomery County Council President Craig Rice met with the news media on April 21 to discuss a variety of topics, including the achievement gap, school resource officers, the recommended operating budget, the need for sewer service in historic Clarksburg and more. You can watch the briefing in its entirety here:

Montgomery County Council President Craig Rice will meet with members of the media on March 10, to discuss key items that will be facing the County Council and its respective committees in the near future. Among the issues Rice is expected to talk about is the possibility of the Maryland General Assembly providing additional funding […]

Montgomery County Council President Craig Rice will meet with members of the media on Monday, Feb. 24, to discuss key items that will be facing the County Council and its respective committees in the near future. Among the issues he will talk about are the Council’s priorities during the ongoing Maryland General Assembly session. Members […]

UPDATED Montgomery County Council President Craig Rice met with members of the media on Feb. 3 to discuss key items facing the County Council and its respective committees in the near future. This was his third meeting with the media since he became Council President. There were a variety of topics addressed at the meeting […]

Montgomery County Council President Craig Rice met with the media on Dec. 9 to discuss his goals and objectives for the year ahead. During the nearly 20-minute briefing he stressed his top priorities for small businesses and the agricultural community. He talked about “growing” farming and said he has been in talks with Montgomery County […]

UPDATED Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler (D) held a news conference in Silver Spring on Oct. 24 to address a story that he attended a beach party in June in Delaware that included reports of alleged underage drinking. (You can watch the question and answer session of the news conference below:) Gansler, who is a […]

UPDATED Dozens of reporters and photographers converged on a a quiet Montgomery Village neighborhood on April 19 when it was learned one of the neighbors is related to the suspects wanted  in the Boston Marathon bombings.  FBI agents were seen leaving the resident’s house while a helicopter hovered for hours above the neighborhood. The resident, Ruslan […]

A local public relations expert, Steve Simon of Van Eperen & Company, served as a panelist for Leadership Montgomery’s recent  “How to Run for Elected Office” workshop. He was joined by other panelists, including Montgomery County Council member Phil Andrews and former Montgomery County Council member Mike Knapp. Simon talked about how important it is […]

Montgomery County Council President Nancy Navarro will meet with members of the media on Jan. 14 to discuss key items that will be facing the County Council and its respective committees in the near future. Navarro will address actions the Council is taking to make sure County schools and neighborhoods are safe in the wake […]