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One of North Potomac’s youngest residents, Bella Berrellez, 11, has one of Montgomery County’s biggest hearts. Bella, a fifth-grade student, is devoted to helping furloughed federal workers struggling from the government shutdown. Bella became interested in helping furloughed workers because her mother, a Food and Drug Administration employee, is furloughed. Seeing her mother not receiving a paycheck inspired […]

Politicians and furloughed federal workers came out to protest the government shutdown at the Silver Spring Civic Center on Wednesday night. The event was lead by Rep. Jamie Raskin, who started the rally with a chant: “All for one, one for all, stop the shutdown, stop the wall.” In addition to Raskin, the rally featured […]

The new general manager of Metro recently met with Montgomery County Council members to discuss the future of the rail system. MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke reports.

U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski issued the following statement on WMATA’s decision to shut down Metro: “This decision is an incredible disruption to everyone who uses Metrorail. However, safety first must be a mandate. More than 700,000 people ride this system each day. For those who work on it, for those who ride it to work, […]

County Cable Montgomery’s Lorna Virgili hosts the latest episode of County Report This Week. This week’s show features stories on the proposed minimum wage increase, County Executive Ike Leggett’s meeting with elected officials from around the region on the impact of the shutdown, Superintendent Joshua Starr’s Community Day, an update on the ACES Program at Montgomery College, […]

My good-bye post as the Furloughed Fed. Today, I went back to work. After being gone — and not even checking emails — for 16 days, it felt like my first day on a new job. Where to start? What to do? But I’d say my first day back was productive. My Desk, 8:15 a.m. […]

The day after action by the Congress to reopen the federal government after a 16-day shutdown, Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett travels to New York with Council President Nancy Navarro and key County officials on Oct. 17 to brief Wall Street bond houses on the County’s economic recovery and Leggett’s success on putting the county’s […]

For me, one of the most disheartening aspects of the federal government shutdown has been people’s reactions. Not their reactions to the shutdown itself, but the lack of empathy for the workers who suddenly found themselves furloughed.       Today, as we’re nearing a close, one of my Facebook connections posted the following: ZOOK- […]

UPDATED In this MyMCMedia extra, County Executive Isiah Leggett said he stands ready to remove the barricades if Glen Echo Park is not reopened by the close of business on Oct. 17. Related Posts

The top elected officials in metropolitan Washington’s largest jurisdictions will meet to discuss the local impact of the shutdown and strategies to help local governments and residents on Oct. 16 in Washington, D.C. Now in its third week, the shutdown is having a devastating impact on hundreds of thousands of federal employees in metropolitan Washington, […]