Monday, January 14, 2013
Montgomery County Council President Nancy Navarro is expected to introduce the resolution Tuesday
A proposed County Council resolution urges the governor and state lawmakers to tighten restrictions on gun and ammunition sales. Montgomery County Council President Nancy Navarro, D-Dist. 4, is expected to introduce the resolution Tuesday. The resolution asks state leaders to: The Council is scheduled to take up the resolution at its next meeting, Tuesday, Jan. 22. A copy of the resolution is posted at the County Council website. Some Background A state taskforce directed to study the adequacy of gun policies as they relate to people with mental illnesses issued a report on Jan. 2, 2013. Among the report’s nine recommendations was the finding that there was no mandate that mental health professionals and social workers report threats of …
Friday, December 7, 2012
New council president says she'll emphasize economic development and educational equality in 2013.
Thursday, December 6, 2012
What do you think of Councilman Roger Berliner’s list of council ‘wins?’
ROCKVILLE—In his last day as president of the Montgomery County Council, Roger Berliner spoke with reporters in Rockville, recounting a year that included continued budget wrangling, squabbles over Pepco's performance and steps to aid small businesses and stimulate economic development. Click here to a see a video of Berliner’s remarks. Councilwoman Nancy Navarro (D-Dist. 4) of Silver Spring took the reins as the council’s new president on Tuesday. But before he stepped aside during Tuesday's council meeting, Berliner (D-Dist. 1) of Potomac outlined what he sees as the council’s greatest accomplishments during his yearlong term. Click here to read Berliner’s remarks in their entirety. The council on Tuesday also released a list of …
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
New council president says she'll emphasize economic development and educational equality in 2013.
Montgomery County's unity as well as its diversity will be the keys to keeping the state's "economic engine" revving next year, said Nancy Navarro, the new Montgomery County Council president. The council president, which changes hands at the end of each year, sets the agenda and steers the council on broad policy initiatives. "It is clear that a majority of residents are minority, so it is fitting that the face of our council leadership reflects that change," said Councilman Craig Rice, referring to Navarro, who is the council's first Latina president. Rice was chosen to serve as the council's vice president. Rice, (D-Dist. 2) of Germantown, Tuesday announced Navarro's nomination in Spanish, spurring a standing ovation and a unanimous …
Craig Rice, of Germantown, replaces Nancy Navarro, who is council presdient.
Montgomery County Council elected council member Craig Rice, D-Dist. 2, of Germantown, as its new vice president. Rice, a former state delegate, was elected to the council in 2010. He is a member of the council’s education and health and human services committees. Rice repalces Nancy Navarro, D-Dist. 4, who was elected president—the first Latina at that perch. Navarro replaces Roger Berliner. Rice and Navarro noted how the county’s demographics have changed, shifting to a majority-minority population, The Washington Post reports. In the article, Rice goes on to say: “It is fitting that the face of our [council] reflects that change.” Traditionally, council vice presidents succeed the president from the prior year.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Navarro approved as vice president.
The Montgomery County Council elected Councilmember Roger Berliner as its next president on Tuesday, choosing Councilmember Nancy Navarro as vice president. Berliner, who succeeds outgoing Council President Valerie Ervin, said Montgomery County's work to regain fiscal stability is not yet done, and that the county will face budgetary, transportation and environmental challenges in the future. "If we are to meet these challenges, we will have to meet the hardest of them all: becoming change agents rather than servants of the status quo," he said. "We need to introduce new words into our county’s business model, words like nimble, bold, entrepreneurial." Navarro, who represents District 4, is the county's first Hispanic female vice …
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Betty Valdes is known as a friend of the latino community and the 'angel of the immigrants.'
Betty Valdes still gets teary-eyed when she talks about the man who brought her his eviction notice and asked her what it meant. She chokes up when she remembers the young girl who rationed the donuts she gave her so that she would have enough for a weeks breakfast. "I had to help them," Valdes said, as she remembers her time working as the first Hispanic, and Spanish-speaking, librarian for the Montgomery County Public Libraries. While working at the Wheaton library, she would translate the English reference materials to Spanish and pushed for more translated materials to serve the growing Spanish-speaking population, many of whom were poor immigrants. Valdes, who is a native Venezuelan, says it was then that she realized the desperate …
Joe Galvagna
2:13 am on Thursday, December 20, 2012
To all above. This county, this state and possible this country are going down for the third time. I hope all you Dens are happy now. We have gone from the greatest county, state and nation to a place of entitlements and illeagles taking over. Soon the population will only the ones expecting everything for free, and lets see how they pay for all their free s _ _ t when all the honest had working … more ›