Restaurant Week is Back for a Fourth Year
I launched Restaurant Week in 2015 to help promote our great restaurants and also expose residents to the terrifically diverse cuisine in our community. In our 4th year, we had 32 participating restaurants offering special fixed-price lunch and dinner menus featuring culinary treats from America, Korea, Italy, Latin America and more. This year I was especially proud Restaurant Week […]
Silver Screens another success
Despite some meteorological challenges this summer — i.e., we had more than our fair share of rainy Fridays and some cancellations — our annual Silver Screens series of free outdoor movies was again a big success. Many thanks to AFI Silver for presenting the movies and Sonny’s Green at The Blairs for hosting them. And […]
Fighting climate change: What we can do
In August, I worked with One Montgomery Green, Integrative Strategies Forum and Poolesville Green to present “Leading the Way — Montgomery County Confronts Climate Change.” This month, a public briefing following up on the discussions at this important conference will be held in Rockville. More than 80 residents, specialists and others attended last month’s public […]
County’s student loan refinance program advances
As many of you know, I fought this spring to have $60,000 included in our fiscal 2019 operating budget to fund a market-demand study and cost analysis for a new county student loan refinance program, through which borrowers could refinance their college loans and save thousands of dollars. This summer, we solicited bids and received several […]
Helping More Businesses Switch to Solar Power
As I reported in my last newsletter, I recently introduced a zoning text amendment designed to make it easier for businesses to install solar energy panels on their property. It’s a follow-up to the zoning change I introduced that the council approved this spring, allowing community solar projects that can provide electricity to residents who […]