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  • Montgomery County paying more for firefighter medical claims

    Kate Jacobson

    Updated: Thu, Apr 18, 2013

    Montgomery County is paying more for firefighter injuries than it did last year, despite a drop in the number of claims. Fire officials told the County Council on Thursday that despite fewer workers getting hurt on the job, the higher cost of health care is slamming the department with higher...

  • Montgomery County Council members worried about more cyclists on streets

    Kate Jacobson

    Published: Wed, Apr 17, 2013

    Montgomery County lawmakers are worried that the county will not be ready to deal with an influx of bicyclists predicted to use the county's planned Capital Bikeshare program, set to start late this summer. At a County Council committee hearing Wednesday, some council members wondered whether...

  • Montgomery County could face $300 million budget hole in fiscal 2015, officials warn

    Kate Jacobson

    Updated: Tue, Apr 16, 2013

    Promised pay raises would cost county $105.3m over two years Montgomery County is facing a potential budget gap of about $300 million in fiscal 2015, thanks partly to large employee pay raises and hard-to-predict tax revenues, county officials warned Tuesday. Preliminary data show funding...

  • Montgomery County's Family Justice Center looks to expand

    Kate Jacobson

    Published: Sun, Apr 14, 2013

    Montgomery County's Family Justice Center, which helps victims of domestic violence and their families seek help, is hoping to expand, as more residents use the center. The center is looking to expand into a vacant office space in the same Rockville building. Officials also are looking to hire...

  • Alexandria advances development despite affordable housing concerns

    Kate Jacobson

    Published: Sat, Apr 13, 2013

    The Alexandria City Council advanced a development project that would tear down 2,500 units of affordable housing Saturday despite opposition from potentially displaced residents. But council members said they are going to do whatever they can to reduce the negative consequences for low-income...

  • Blotter: One dead, five others hurt in spate of violent crimes

    Kate Jacobson

    Published: Sat, Apr 13, 2013

    One dead, five others hurt in spate of violent crimes One person was killed and five others injured in a series of violent crimes the District that occurred between Friday night and Saturday morning, D.C. police said. A man at 15th and Adams streets in Northeast D.C. was shot in the groin at...

  • One dead, five others hurt in spate of violent crimes

    Kate Jacobson

    Updated: Sat, Apr 13, 2013

    One person was killed and five others injured in a series of violent crimes the District that occurred between Friday night and Saturday morning, D.C. police said. A man at 15th and Adams streets in Northeast D.C. was shot in the groin at about 9:45 p.m. on Friday. He was transported to a...

  • Montgomery County police look to add positions in Wheaton, Montgomery Village

    Kate Jacobson

    Published: Thu, Apr 11, 2013

    Montgomery County police want to add 23 patrol officers in fiscal 2014, some of whom will be placed in Wheaton and Montgomery Village to curb the areas' high crime rates. Wheaton and Montgomery Village have the second- and third-highest crime rates in the county, only slightly behind Silver...

  • Montgomery County Council looks to reduce energy tax

    Kate Jacobson

    Updated: Tue, Apr 9, 2013

    Montgomery County taxpayers would save up to $11 million in energy taxes if a measure by the County Council to reduce the tax is approved. Two proposed bills would reduce the 155 percent increase on energy taxes imposed on county residents in fiscal 2011. One introduced by Council President...

  • Silver Spring Transit Center opening more than a year away

    Kate Jacobson

    Published: Tue, Apr 9, 2013

    Commuterslikely will have to wait more than a yearto use theproblem-plagued Silver Spring Transit Center,a Montgomery County official said Tuesday. County Director of General Services David Dise told the County Council it willtakeanother six weeksfordesign fixes to be drafted. Construction...


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