Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD)

Washington, DC Office Phone: (202) 224-4654

Email/Online Contact: Use the official contact form at https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/contact or email via the site’s form.

Senator Angela Alsobrooks (MD)

Washington, DC Office Phone: (202) 224-4524

Official Website Contact Form: https://www.alsobrooks.senate.gov/contact for email correspondence 

God Bless You for Serving

By Dennis Brent Melby

Since the beginning of our great experience in self-governance we've relied on the firm support of the military to ensure our freedom. God bless our US Veterans who've served the people of this great country. Our experiment in democracy, and the republic we founded, has been helped, moved forward and defended by our men and women who served. Some gave so much, serving with honor and distinction. Yes, at times portions of the public didn't honor them, but we should have. They ALL pledged to support and defend the Constitution of the United States - the best in the world so far - and ours was the grand template for so many governments founded after ours.

C-Span coverage of the 2009 luncheon

By Ken Dalecki

News of Dick Cheney's death last week sparked memories of encounters I had during my journalism career with perhaps the most influential and controversial vice president in U.S. history.  His remarkable career evoked admiration from some and disparagement from others.  Once the ultimate GOP insider, Cheney broke ranks in his waning days with MAGA Republicans by opposing President Donald Trump and supporting Liz Cheney, his anti-Trump daughter. 

The details of his long public service are well known and easily available elsewhere.  This is a brief recollection of personal encounters I had with him.

   Crime Reports 

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MCPD News Releases including Missing Children Reports

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Teen Cut Off Ankle Monitor Hours Before Montgomery County Shooting Spree: Police | Daily Voice | Zak Failla | October 31, 2025, 10:39 pm

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Montgomery County Police Department faces critical staff shortage | Fox 5  | Shirin Rajaee | November 4, 2025, 2:45 am

  News & Opinions

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Turn a Private Perk into a Public Crossing

For the past five years a 35 mile hole has existed in the region’s transportation network. Since White’s Ferry shut down in December 2020, over a landing rights dispute on the Virginia shore, there has been no Potomac River crossing between the American Legion Bridge and Point of Rocks. That single closure ripped out a low cost, transportation efficient, low-carbon link that once carried 600 to 800 vehicles a day including commuters, service workers, cyclists, and weekenders who stitched together the economies of western Montgomery and Loudoun counties.

Now comes an opportunity that is both practical and poetic. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has publicly urged the International Monetary Fund to sell its country club property along River Road, the 285 plus acre Bretton Woods Recreation Center beside the C&O Canal and the Potomac. If the IMF is ready to divest, our region should be ready to negotiate a public- private partnership to provide a public park and to restore a river crossing we control.

Call it the “Bretton Woods Crossing,”  a modest, publicly owned, electric‑powered ferry and multiuse river link built on the Bretton Woods property on the Maryland side, paired with a landing on public land in Virginia where no single private owner can lock the gate. This would not be a Beltway‑scale bridge; it would be a right‑sized crossing designed to do what White’s Ferry did well: move a few hundred vehicles and many more bikes and pedestrians each day, keep trips local, and knit communities and labor markets back together without inviting sprawl.

Montgomery Channel

 MCGOP Central Committee member Stacey Sauter interviews Chairman Reardon Sullivan and civic activist Cary Lamari. 

"21 This Week," is a weekly public affairs program focused on issues in Montgomery County, Maryland — government, business, education, social and hot topic issues. This week the guest moderator was MCGOP Central Committee member, Stacey Sauter. In turn, her Republican guest was MCGOP Chairman, Reardon Sullivan. In this week's show they discussed the arrogance of the County Council when it comes to making major decisions; school board boundaries; and the potential sale of the Bretton Woods Recreation Club in Germantown.

Incoming MFRW President Luanne Ruddell congratulates outgoing President Sharon Carrick on her successful term.

by Amy Waychoff

Thrive Montgomery 2050 is a long-range guide for the development of the county. It was passed unanimously by the Montgomery County Council on 25 October 2022. One of its visions is to focus on infill development along major corridors in the county. The plan also “aims to ensure that exclusively single-family zoning is not a barrier to development in many Montgomery County neighborhoods.” The “growth corridors” affected are:

• Rockville Pike
• Georgia Avenue
• Colesville Road/Columbia Pike (Rt. 29)
• New Hampshire Avenue
• Connecticut Avenue
• University Boulevard
• Veirs Mill Road
• Randolph Road/Old Georgetown Road/Rock Spring Drive between Rock Spring and Columbia Pike; and
• River Road

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