In local media Bethesda Today has been named News Organization of the Year by the MDDC Press Organization - winning 11 awards.

For Pre-election coverage reporter Ginny Bixby earned first place for her article about Republican efforts in Montgomery County during the 2024 election season.

2025 Montgomery County Republican Central Committee Chair Reardon Sullivan, left, and 2024 Chair Dennis Melby, right, organize campaign signs at the party office in Rockville in August 2024. Photo credit: Ginny Bixby

As you know we often reprint their coverage here, they're perhaps the only media that covers local news, and we've found them to be honest reporters. No, they're certainly not pro-Republican, but they seem to report all sides without a bias. Kind of the way the media USED to be all over.

Congratulations to them.

Two Israeli diplomats shot, killed during event at Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC

"The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. It has a cost; it imposes a burden. And just as they whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we—in a less final, less heroic way—be willing to give of ourselves."

-Ronald Reagan-

40th President of the United States

The Republican Party was founded before the American Civil War to counter the Democrats' demands to continue and expand Slavery in America. During the great conflict that followed over 600,000 troops lost their lives - as well as untold civilians. When southern black Americans were finally emancipated by the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln and given the right to vote, they registered and voted Republican - until the Democrats regained power in the South and took their rights away for decades.

The following story recalls how the black residents of Charleston gave a dignified burial to the Union Troops, honored their sacrifice and respected the memories of their fallen emancipators, years before Memorial Day was proclaimed. It was called Decoration Day, and those soldiers' remains were later moved to a national cemetery in Beaufort, S.C.  READ THE ARTICLE HERE>

The Honorable Karen A. Bushell, Clerk of Circuit Court, performed the swearing-in ceremony of Lawrence Halloran at the Montgomery County Board of Elections. (Facebook)

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Montgomery County Board of Elections Considered Polling Places for the 2026 Gubernatorial Elections

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75,000 Votes

Against Jamie Raskin?

June 10

Arrive 8 AM; Meeting: 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

LOCATION: IHOP, 775 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852 (next to Long and Foster)

Due to limited space, RSVP to Lori Jaffe by June 7 at [email protected]

Meme Du Jour |PureOPELKA | Mike Opelka | May 19, 2025 

The Republican Party wishes former President Biden and his family the best outcome with their recent struggle against cancer. We all know someone who has been visited with this scourge, and they remain in our hearts and prayers.

Reardon “Sully” Sullivan 

MCGOP Chairman

Walk Down Worthington / Massachusetts Ave. with neighbors and Andrew Friedson on April 21

By Ann Telma

The “New Options for Workers” piece of legislation known as “N.O.W.” doesn’t do what it purports to do which is to provide workforce housing for our teachers, fire fighters, and nurses. It disrupts existing neighborhoods, has not been put through the master plan process, and takes into account neither the existing cuts to the federal workforce which might reduce the demand for housing in Montgomery County nor the already approved housing units which have not yet been built, but are already in the pipeline. It’s expensive too because it includes a 20-year tax holiday for developers that some have valued at $2.5 billion!