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The deadline to register to vote in the June 2 primary election is Wednesday, May 27. This is also the deadline to change party affiliation or update a voter’s address. Tomorrow, 5/27 is the deadline to register, update your information or change party affiliation for the primary election. You can register or update your registration […]

Instead of being in class on Monday morning, hundreds of Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) students decided to exercise their first amendment right and protest President-elect Donald Trump by staging a walkout in Silver Spring. “We’re protesting because we don’t want Donald Trump as our president. I mean we can’t change that but we got to […]

UPDATED An majority of voters support term limits, according to the unofficial election results. MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke reports. ORIGINAL POST Term limits advocate Robin Ficker is celebrating what appears to be the passage of the term limits amendment, and he plans to thank voters on Wednesday morning at the Shady Grove Metro station. According to unofficial election results, […]

In an interview the day after the election, Montgomery County Council President Nancy Floreen said the vote for term limits, limiting county council members and the county executive to three consecutive terms, came as no surprise. County Councilmembers Floreen, Roger Berliner, George Leventhal and Marc Elrich are currently serving their third term on the Council. […]

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Rebecca Smondrowski was reelected as the District 2 member of the Board of Education, defeating opponent Brandon Rippeon. In her first post-election interview, Smondrowski talks about the board’s future work, and she has some advice for the board’s newest members.

Shebra Evans is the newly elected District 4 Board of Education member. She defeated Anjali Reed Phukan in the school board race, and when Evans is sworn in on Dec. 1st she will replace Board of Education member Chris Barclay who did not seek reelection. The day after the election, Evans sat down with MCM’s […]

Jeanette Dixon won the At-Large school board seat on election night, defeating incumbent Board of Education member Phil Kauffman. In an exclusive interview at MCM’s studios, Dixon talked about what’s next. Dixon said she will be sworn into office on Dec. 1, and she is planning to celebrate her win at that time. Looking forward […]

Congressman Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat, has won the U.S. Senate race in Maryland. Van Hollen will replace retiring Senator Barbara Mikulski. He defeats Republican candidate Kathy Szeliga and Green candidate Dr. Margaret Flowers.  In this MyMCMedia Extra video, below, Van Hollen said there’s a lot of work to do: Van Hollen delivered the following […]

Democrats John Delaney, Jamie Raskin and John Sarbanes won their Congressional races in Maryland on election night. BREAKING: Raskin elected to U.S. House in Maryland. @AP race call at 10:19 p.m. EST. #Election2016 #APracecall pic.twitter.com/ZyhMfJmnfS — AP Politics (@AP_Politics) November 9, 2016 #Election2016: John Sarbanes re-elected to U.S. House in Md.’s 3rd District #cbselectionhttps://t.co/bMxhe84vSN pic.twitter.com/TYnMD9Habk […]