Montgomery Community Media

MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke hosts the latest edition of County Report This Week, which includes reports about Senator Barbara Mikulski’s college affordability tour, the renters tax credit, tax free shopping in Maryland, the Rockville Rewards program, the Rock Spring Master Plan, the new Active Montgomery system and more. You can watch the show, below:

Sen. Barbara Mikulski visited Montgomery College’s Takoma Park-Silver Spring campus on Aug.11th and announced a $1 million grant to Montgomery College to provide support services to first-year students. During this visit, she discussed college affordability with students, professors and staff. Mikulski also visited the College’s Nursing Simulation Lab where Adeline Ntam, a fourth-year nursing student, said students learn to […]

U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), Vice Chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, is scheduled to tour the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) in Rockville this morning, and call for increased support and investment in the physical and human infrastructure of NIH. Mikulski will announce that she is […]

County Council President George Leventhal, a former staff member of Senator Barbara Mikulski, shared his thoughts on her announcement that she will not run for reelection in 2016. Leventhal comments on Mikulski’s service to Maryland.

Montgomery County Council President George Leventhal met with reporters at his weekly briefing on March 2. Some of the topics discussed were the Montgomery County Department of Liquor Control, the Wheaton Recreation/Library project and the decision by U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski,(D-Md.) not to run for reelection in 2016. Watch the news briefing in its entirety […]

The National Capital Delegation will receive a closed session briefing from the National Traffic Safety Board (NTSB) and the Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority (WMATA) on Jan 21, regarding last week’s deadly incident on the Yellow Line. Following the briefing, the delegation will meet with the media. The Yellow Line smoke incident caused the death of […]

U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) issued the following statement on the plane crash in Gaithersburg which killed six people: “My thoughts and prayers are with those who lost loved ones in yesterday’s plane crash in Gaithersburg especially to the Gemmell Family. My deepest gratitude goes to the first responders who rushed to the scene […]

Maryland’s Cyber Technology Pathways Across Maryland Consortium (C-PAM) recently secured nearly $15 million in grant funding to help build out the program and help create more pathways to jobs in Maryland’s rapidly-growing cyber industry. U.S. Department of Labor officials announced that Maryland was among the awardees of the latest round of grants as part of […]

U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) will be joined by Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) General Manager Richard Sarles and Metro Police Chief Ron Pavlik today to announce new legislative reforms that would deter cell phone theft and help put the safety and security of personal information stored on mobile devices back in the […]

U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), Chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, will continue her Maryland Jobs Tour at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today at 1:30 p.m. She will be joined by NIST Director Dr. Patrick Gallagher and Dr. Tim Foecke in touring the Center for Automotive Lightweighting at the NIST […]