Tesla driver crashes into outdoor dining area at Bethesda restaurant - video from scene.
No indication yet that anyone was sitting in the area impacted.
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MD Gov. Larry Hogan just now: There is a "growing consensus" that "there is no public health reason for county school boards to keep students out of schools."
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American fashion labels with manufacturing facilities should immediately consider what Zara is doing in Spain and start making medical face masks and hospital protective wear. via
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Maryland National Capital Park Police are seeking the public's help in identifying the cyclist in this incident on the Capital Crescent Trail in Bethesda near the DC line.
Contact Det. Lopez at 301-929-2774 and reference case number 20001297.
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Black Lives Matter signs are going up where the cyclist attacked the people who were trying to post them the other day on the Capital Crescent Trail in Bethesda.
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Bethesda CVS locks up detergent amid a sustained wave of retail thefts, and Montgomery County's lackluster efforts to stop them:
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#crime
Rockville rocked by minor earthquake overnight; the Maryland Geological Survey indicates the epicenter of the quake was on the golf course of Lakewood Country Club:
The Associated Press has jumped the gun in reporting that Gaithersburg plane occupants were rescued. There is no indication of this from any other source, or from those observing the crash scene live.
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@BillKristol
"Mass disinformation, foreign interference, and unabashed use of executive branch power to shape events, and perceptions..."
Sounds like you and your friends when you led us into an insane war in Iraq, Bill.
Twitter illegally suspended my accounts without justification two weeks ago. Silencing a local news outlet at the height of a pandemic is an embarrassment for Jack Dorsey. They've damaged my business; they've got to make this right, and give a full explanation of what happened.
Montgomery County taxpayers pay $9.6 million for new Bethesda park that won't be built, a Planning Board decision that warrants investigation:
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No new coronavirus cases in Bethesda in last 24 hrs!
20814 (Downtown Bethesda): 0 (325 total now)
20815 (Chevy Chase area): 0 (279)
20816 (Westbard/Sumner etc): 0 (104)
20817 (N. Bethesda/Potomac): 0 (322)
20852 (White Flint/S. Rockville): 0 (538)
Source: State of MD
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Chicago nurse quits after being told to work COVID-19 ICU without a mask - a nurse at Sibley Hospital also quit over a PPE safety violation in recent days.
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#MasksNow
Two other local media outlets stole my scoop about Shouk without citing me as the source.
That's theft, profiting from my work. It takes time and effort to get photos and write these articles.
Plagiarism is a serious and firing offense at most credible news orgs. Don't do it.
Geste Beer & Wine in Bethesda appears to be open regular hours tonight. The store was robbed twice earlier this week.
The owner says the robbers took about $1200, so I'm sure he would appreciate your business.
I don't recall the MoCo Planning Board consulting taxpayers before awarding $100K settlement to employee. Like LF Parkway road diet & reckless $9.6M Bethesda land debacle, it again proves they have too much $, and too little oversight of how it's spent.
#DefundThePlanningBoard
Some readers in Wheaton and along MD 355 report that their power has just been restored. Rescue of uninjured occupants of plane still in-progress after crash into Pepco tower that caused the widespread Montgomery County power outage. Photo:
@mcfrsPIO
@ scene.
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@MorePerfectUS
The Maryland governor and General Assembly are also avid recipients of donations from insurance companies. Not surprisingly, they've stood aside as Maryland residents are ravaged by skyrocketing premiums.
Here are mailboxes that were removed in Bethesda in 2014, when I reported on the removals by USPS. A couple of people said at the time, "Why are you reporting this?" Looks like I was ahead of my time, and the national media is catching up!
The Associated Press is reporting that the occupants of the plane in Gaithersburg have been rescued. I have not seen confirmation of this from Montgomery County officials yet. Number of Pepco customers affected by the plane crash-related power outage has dropped to 77,313.
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Hogan on MoCo not reopening: "I think they ought to move forward. I believe Montgomery now is the only one that hasn't set a date. They probably ought to."
Montgomery County suffered 49 carjackings from January through March in a record-high for the first quarter of the year, according to Data Montgomery.
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@Jaybefaunt
This is the state of the real economy right now, not the Wall Street economy they talk about in the media. People are working more than one low-paying job, while their benefits are cut, housing & food prices skyrocket & if they even have health insurance, big prems & deductible.
Dulles, the only one with the frequency and range of international flights required by CEOs and business execs.
Which is why Montgomery County and MD's refusal to allow a new bridge over the Potomac to Dulles is a major cause of our moribund economy & Legion Bridge congestion.
@SmPotatoes
Montgomery County Council's
Food truck initiative = wiped out 90% of the food truck business
"Nighttime Economy" initiative = tanked the nighttime economy
Vision Zero initiative = pedestrian injuries and fatalities increase
"Anti-Hate" initiative = record hate crimes spike
More exciting times on Little Falls Parkway in Bethesda where the Capital Crescent Trail crosses today by the Bethesda Pool, when it was the B&O Railroad in 1965.
Photo by William Duvall, scan owned by Ben Sullivan.
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@LadyIzdihar
She also became the first female train driver in Uzbek SSR four years later, and drove trains of military supplies to the frontline during WWII.
J.W. Marriott's Model T has arrived at the new Marriott Intl. HQ in Bethesda.
Bill & Alice Marriott drove this car from Salt Lake City to D.C. in 1927, where their A&W Root Beer stand became Hot Shoppes, then an international hotel empire:
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@SmPotatoes
MCPS has the winning political formula - the more you fail the children, the worse the student performance, the bigger the racial achievement gap, the MORE MONEY you get from the Montgomery County Council. Zero accountability. Zero oversight.
The shutdown of the Westbard road grid in Bethesda may be the largest transfer of public land to private use in MoCo history. No one in MoCo Govt stood in the way. When the project is done, residents get exactly zero out of it. You quickly learn who really runs Montgomery County.
My first movie was at the Rockville Drive-In. We need drive-in theaters more than ever now, and it would be to the film industry's advantage to help lower the cost of showing first-run movies for drive-in operators. How about opening a drive-in on the White Flint Mall site?
Montgomery County installs surveillance camera at downtown Silver Spring intersection where drivers did donuts this past weekend (Photos):
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@ModeratelyMoco
The undercurrent of this piece is a bit unsettling, though. A bit too much praise of a Council that reacted only when it became embarrassing for the political machine, and expressing relief that corruption in the planning dept. will not be further investigated or interrupted.
Pepco customers now in the dark in Gaithersburg plane crash-related power outage in Montgomery County: 113,081.
MCPS to make announcement regarding potential school closures "later this evening."
Plane occupants, awaiting rescue, identified:
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