Montgomery Community Media

Don Mooers, host of Montgomery Week in Review, talks with Shu-Ping Chan from the Asian Pacific American Chamber of Commerce about the disproportional impact of the sequester on Montgomery County, particularly the immediate impact on local businesses both large and small. Take a look.

During a meeting with the Montgomery County Council earlier this month, U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski told the local leaders that the sequester “was designed never to happen.” Take a look.

During the recent opening of his new Gaithersburg office, 6th District Congressman John Delaney was asked about the pending sequester. Take a look.

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 […]