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Montgomery Co. on graduations, rent relief; bad news on vaccine doses 04/19/2021 05:31pm • Leadership of the Montgomery County Council in Maryland spoke about new rental assistance and coronavirus-related rules for graduations at a briefing Monday. Council President Tom Hucker announced the third phase of the county’s COVID Rent Relief program, thanks to money from the American Rescu $59 million available to low-income renters hurt by COVID-19 in Montgomery Co. 04/16/2021 11:00pm • More money is now available for Montgomery County, Maryland, renters hit hard in the wallet by the COVID-19 crisis. In its first two phases, the county's COVID-19 Rent Relief program provided more than $16 million to more than 4,000 low-income households. Now, the program has received a ca DC gets funding boost from feds to fight homelessness 04/14/2021 04:10pm • A homeless man sleeps on the National Mall near the US Capitol in Washington, DC on March 8, 2021. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images) D.C. is getting a significant boost from the federal government in an effort to combat homelessness and housing scarcity in the District. Meet the DC entrepreneur who’s launched electric picnic boat rentals at The Wharf 04/14/2021 10:03am • For as little as $150, you can rent an electric-powered Scandinavian-designed picnic boat, large enough for eight passengers, at The Wharf Marina, and no boating license is required. Float DC launched April 1. Renters are encouraged to get a boat safety certificate, available online, first, thoug Md. housing advocates say relief funding alone won't stop evictions 04/14/2021 07:25am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Several tenant relief efforts failed in the last hours of the 2021 legislative session Monday, drawing condemnation from fair housing advoca Emotions raw in session’s final hours, but Md. lawmakers hail the finished product 04/13/2021 01:38pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. For the third straight year, the Maryland General Assembly adjourned on Monday night without balloons or confetti — a nod to the serious n More ways to get out on the river at National Harbor 04/13/2021 08:49am • New this year are hydro bike water bikes rented from Boating in D.C. at National Harbor. (Courtesy Boating in D.C.) National Harbor has more boating options this year, many of which are now operating and several more are coming in May and June. Some are for rigorous workouts, some for kicking Stay DC: District launches rent help program 04/12/2021 03:09pm • If you're having trouble paying for rent and utilities in D.C. because of the pandemic, there's good news: The District is launching a $350 million program to assist residents called Stay DC. Through the program, renters and housing providers can apply for grant money to cover past and future ren Virginians could see higher personal property taxes from rising vehicle values 04/08/2021 10:32am • Get ready for a higher personal property tax bill in Virginia this year due to rising used vehicle values. Loudoun County revenue commissioner Robert Wertz Jr. is advising county residents who own cars that their personal property taxes this season might be higher, owing to the coronavirus pandem Biden's 'trailblazing' judicial candidates for DC and Maryland 03/30/2021 10:57am • President Joe Biden named a slate of judicial picks Tuesday, and some of the nominees represent firsts for D.C. and Maryland. If they're all confirmed, the D.C. District Court could see its first Asian American Pacific Islander woman to ever serve, as well as the first woman of color to serve as Loudoun Co. leaders, Va. Senator discuss uses of American Rescue Plan funding 03/25/2021 06:23pm • Loudoun County, Virginia, is laying out the ways in which it plans to use funding from President Joe Biden's COVID-19 relief package that Congress recently passed. Virginia is expecting to receive $4 billion from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan. Loudoun County will get $80 million in tw More than a dozen community fitness centers, parks set to reopen in Prince George's Co. 03/24/2021 11:00am • Spring is in the air, and just in time, several park facilities in Prince George's County are set to reopen next week from coronavirus-related closures. The reopenings were announced Wednesday by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission's Department of Parks and Recreation, and DC metro is among biggest rent-drop cities. But now rents are rising. 03/22/2021 08:58am • After falling an average of 1.8% per month from April through December 2020, average apartment rents in the D.C. metro area have risen in each of the past two months. The increase has not been significant —  up 0.9% in February — and D.C. area rents are still significantly lower than a year What to expect as a first-time pandemic traveler 03/15/2021 11:38pm • As vaccines go into arms, more and more people are expected to do something they put off last year due to COVID-19: travel. According to a survey done by travel company Expedia, almost half of the 2,200 people surveyed in December said widely available vaccines would make them comfortable traveli $6B Montgomery Co. spending plan fully funds schools, removes SROs 03/15/2021 05:18pm • Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland will get the largest chunk of the county's $6 billion budget proposed for the coming fiscal year. County Executive Marc Elrich's proposed spending plan for fiscal 2022, unveiled Monday, would give $2.7 billion to the public school system. Elrich noted