Rockville Central Radio Today: What's Up The Pike; Staying Healthy In Holidays

We have an astounding show lined for today’s edition of >Rockville Central Radio! We go live at noon.

This week’s show is going to feature Dan Reed who writes Just Up The Pike, one of our favorite Silver Spring blogs (and an inspiration for this one).

We’ll also have Melissa Bosslet from EB Nutrition as a guest talking about staying healthy during the holidays. She writes a great blog that you should check out.

And as always, we will have Ruth Hanessian from Animal Exchange — we plan on talking about foraging in the winter.

How to listen? Just go here on your computer. Or, feel free to just call into our listener line at 646-200-3332. While you’re on the phone, you can hear the whole show. AND . . . you can ask questions too.

In fact, we encourage it. So call in at 646-200-3332!

Just go here to listen every Friday at noon.

Rockville Central Radio Today: Workforce Housing, Adopt A Stream

We have an exciting show lined for today’s edition of >Rockville Central Radio! We go live at noon.

This week’s show is going to feature Maryann Dillon, Director of Real Estate, for Montgomery County’s Housing Opportunities Commission — we will be talking about the new “workforce housing” development at King Farm.

We’ll also have Jason Yu from the City of Rockville on to talk about Our Fair City’s Adopt A Stream program, as well as volunteer Kate Berman. You too can adopt a stream!

How to listen? Just go here on your computer. Or, feel free to just call into our listener line at 646-200-3332. While you’re on the phone, you can hear the whole show. AND . . . you can ask questions too.

In fact, we encourage it. So call in at 646-200-3332!

Just go here to listen every Friday at noon.

Rockville Central Radio To Focus On "Buy Rockville" Campaign

We have a great show lined up for tomorrow’s edition of >Rockville Central Radio! As always, we go live at noon on Friday. (And if you miss it, you can always listen to the podcast by following the above link.)

This week’s show is going to focus on the new Buy Rockville campaign. Among other guests, we’ll have Lynn Benzion, associate director of Rockville Economic Development, Inc. on the show. We hope to have a few surprise guests too.

How to listen, you may well ask. Who can blame you? So easy! Just go here on your computer. Or, feel free to just call into our listener line at 646-200-3332. While you’re on the phone, you can hear the whole show. AND . . . you can ask questions too.

In fact, we encourage it. So call in at 646-200-3332!

Just go here to listen on Friday at noon.

You Can Still Listen To Rockville Central Radio On Sustainability

In case you could not tune in today, you can still listen to today’s very special edition of >Rockville Central Radio. You can listen to the show here.

We focused on sustainability and the environment and had a bevy of guests: Council Member John Britton (who recently wrote a piece on reducing greenhouse emissions), Council Member Phyllis Marcuccio, Ruth Hanessian of the Animal Exchange, bicycle advocate (and alternative energy proponent) Carl Henn, solar conversion expert Herb Winkler, and more!

Plus, we had so many callers that we sort of blew out the switchboard, which has not happened before. All in all, it was very rock and roll.

We’re taking Thanksgiving off and will return to the airwaves on Friday, December 5. Just go here to listen at noon on the 5th!

Rockville Central Radio To Focus On Sustainability And Environment

We have a special show lined up for tomorrow’s edition of >Rockville Central Radio! As always, we go live at noon on Friday. (And if you miss it, you can always listen to the podcast by following the above link.)

This week’s show is going to focus on sustainability and the environment. We’ll have guests on who will talk not only about policy but also about their in-the-trenches experiences in converting to solar, using alternative transportation, and more. Council Member John Britton (who recently wrote a piece on reducing greenhouse emissions), bicycle advocate (and alternative energy proponent) Carl Henn, and solar conversion expert Herb Winkler are just a few of the people who will be on. We hope to have a few surprise guests too.

How to listen? Oh, it’s so easy. Just go here on your computer. Or, feel free to just call into our listener line at 646-200-3332. While you’re on the phone, you can hear the whole show. AND . . . you can ask questions too.

In fact, we encourage it. So call in at 646-200-3332!

Just go here to listen on Friday at noon.

Rockville Central Radio Features Maryland Politics Watch

We hope you will be able to tune in on Friday for another edition of >Rockville Central Radio!

In addition to our usual friends, we will have one of my favorite analysts of Maryland and Montgomery County politics, Adam Pagnucco of Maryland Politics Watch. We’ll be talking about the “Ficker provision,” slots, the Board of Education, and . . . oh, you name it!

To talk to Adam or just to ask questions of me or Cindy, call 646-200-3332.

Just go here to listen on Friday at noon.

Tune Into Rockville Central Radio Friday At Noon!

We hope you will be able to tune into >Rockville Central Radio tomorrow at noon because we have a special show lined up.

In addition to our usual friends and guests, we are proud to say that Predrag Gosta, National Philharmonic Singers’ newly appointed Artistic Director and Conductor, will be on the show. Maestro Gosta was recently named Assistant Conductor of the National Philharmonic. He’s a leading specialist in the field of early music and historical performance. He’ll be conducting the National Philharmonic Singers next week when they present their first free concert of the 2008-09 season, featuring sacred and secular a cappella works by composers from the 16th Century to present, on Saturday, November 15 at 8 PM at Christ Episcopal Church.

We will have some music to listen to, too!

It’s easy to listen. Either call into our listener number at 646-200-3332 at noon or: just go here.

Tune Into Rockville Central Radio At Noon!

We hope you will be able to tune in today at noon to listen to >Rockville Central Radio because we have quite a show lined up!

We’ll have Duane Monahan, director and choreographer of the Sound of Music on. We’ll also have our friend Rich Gottfried, who is a CPA, to talk about Our Fair City’s expenditure prospects 2010 and beyond.

It’s easy to listen. Either call into our listener number at 646-200-3332 at noon or: just go here.

Tune Into Rockville Central Radio Tomorrow At Noon

We hope you will be able to tune in tomorrow at noon to listen to >Rockville Central Radio because we have quite a show lined up!

We’ll have Robert Goldman, president of Montgomery Housing Partnership on. As most readers of Rockville Central know, we’re supporters of the new Beall’s Grant II workforce housing project — we will be talking to Rob about that. Please call into the show at 646-200-3332 with your questions.

I know I probably do not have to say it, but I will anyway. The Beall’s Grant II issue has generated a great deal of emotion in Our Fair City. When emotions run high, the possibility for hurtful and intemperate words is also high. I just won’t tolerate that kind of discourse — Rockville Central is a safe place for dialogue. So, I know that both supporters and those who oppose Beall’s Grant II will be equally civil. Just so everyone knows I will have my “civility police” hat on!

So, please: call into our listener number at 646-200-3332 tomorrow at noon and let’s talk about it!

Just go here to listen on Friday at noon.

Ruth On The Parakeets

Our good friend >Ruth Hanessian, who is the owner of Animal Exchange, along with neighbor (and also Rockville Central friend) Chas Hausheer, has once again put together a video. She’s becoming quite the YouTube phenom — which, if you know Ruth, you would net expect. Ruth will be the first to tell you she does not work with these Internets very comfortably.

I’ve embedded her latest video below. It’s all about parakeets.

(If you are getting this article by email and the video does not come through, come back to the blog to see it!)

You can listen to Ruth this Friday at noon on Rockville Central Radio. Just come to the blog (or go here) to listen.

See You At Rockville Roundtable Tomorrow, October 7!

Don’t forget! The >next Rockville Roundtable has been set for Tomorrow, Tuesday, October 7, from 12:00 to 1:30 pm. We’ll meet at Bamboo Buffet at 2010 Veirs Mill in Twinbrook. (Warning: the link goes to a page that has sound. You may want to mute your computer.) Here’s a map.

What is this “Rockville Roundtable?” I am so glad you asked. It’s simple. Just an informal lunch. We get together, with no agenda, no speakers, no podium, nothing fancy (and no dress code). Just lunch together, Dutch. Sometimes we talk about important things, other times it’s trivia. Everyone is welcome.

It helps if you RSVP by sending me a note ahead of time, but that’s not necessary. If you wake up on the 7th and have the urge to join us, don’t let not having RSVP’d stop you! Just come!

Hope to see you there.

Listen To The Rockville Central Radio Replay!

In case you missed listening live, you can still listen to >today’s episode of Rockville Central Radio.

Today’s show featured Frank Anastasi, on the Move The Court House steering committee, discussing his group’s new report detailing a number of questions about how the State of Maryland handled the new District Court House that is planned for the old Rockville Library site. The report is based on documents it obtained through a Maryland Public Information Act request.

Frank gave a detailed rundown of what the group found in its investigation and talked about the conclusions the report draws.

From the Move The Court House press release announcing the report:

While MTC has always agreed that a new courthouse is needed in Rockville, it says now that the project as planned is a waste of taxpayers’ money. “We always asked, why can’t we build a better courthouse, at a better location, where adequate parking could be included? Until now, we didn’t realize that we could save money in the process,” said Bridget Newton, an MTC member, and Chair of Rockville’s Town Center Action Team for many years. MTC says that DGS data show the 171,200 square-foot Rockville courthouse as planned would cost $475 per square foot, fifty-four percent more per square foot than it cost to build the new Silver Spring Courthouse. That building was completed a few years ago for $27 million (about $309 per square foot).

MTC suggested to the Board, “… in this time of billion dollar budget deficits, the State can do better than spending more than $81 million on this ill-conceived, extravagant, monument to wasteful government spending.” It asked the Board to deny approval of the contract to demolish the old Rockville Library, which it says could save around $3 million. Another $7 million would come back to the State because Montgomery County would by the site back if the courthouse is not built there. The City of Rockville had offered to buy the site previously.

MTC believes that “tens of millions of dollars more could be saved by building a courthouse with a functional design and adequate facilities, at one of several nearby, available, and more-suitable sites.” The former Giant grocery site, and 255 Rockville Pike, located just outside the Circuit Court’s eastern doors, were two sites mentioned.

Rockville Central Radio will be back next week on Friday, October 10. Just go here to listen.

Rockville Central Radio Friday 10/2: City As Ark; New Court House Report

We hope you will be able to tune in tomorrow at noon to listen to >Rockville Central Radio because we have a fascinating show lined up!

First, we’ll hear from our good friend Ruth Hanessian about the ark that is Our Fair City.

Then we’ll turn to an issue that has been a little dormant of late but that may begin to pick up steam anew: the new District Court House. Frank Anastasi, a member of the Move The Courthouse group, will be on hand to discuss the results of the Freedom of Information Act request they filed back in April. The report they have drafted, I am told, sheds new light on the state’s decision to build a new district court house on the site of the old Rockville Public Library.

As I have consistently been upfront about, I have long been a Move The Courthouse supporter — which does not mean I am not open to hearing and publishing other views. So, please: call into our listener number at 646-200-3332 tomorrow at noon and let’s talk about it!

Just go here to listen on Friday at noon.

Still Time To Listen To Rockville Central Radio

In case you missed listening live, you can still listen to >today’s incredible episode of Rockville Central Radio.

We had two tremendous guests. Stephanie Cromwell, who directs the Rooftop at VisArts, talked about hosting events at the Rooftop. Did you know that the Rooftop in Town Square is the only outdoor rooftop space in the area outside of one in DC?

We also had Adam Pagnucco of Maryland Politics Watch, one of the savviest political observers in the county, to talk about about Ike Leggett’s bombshell about-face on slots, the trials and tribulations of the Purple Line, and also about Adam’s excellent series on the Gazette.

Watch for more from Adam on the show. He is a wealth of insight.

We are off next week, but back in the saddle on Friday, October 3, when we are planning another really big show. Just go here to listen.

Rockville Central Radio Friday To Feature Maryland Politics Watch

As the dean of all late-night variety show hosts used to say, “We have a really big shew for you” coming up this Friday, and I didn’t want to wait to tell you.>

One of our most thoughtful local pundits (and a personal favorite), Adam Pagnucco of Maryland Politics Watch, will be on this Friday’s Rockville Central Radio show at noon to talk about politics in Montgomery County. There’s a lot happening right now, with continued budget issues, transportation, not to mention Adam’s excellent series on the Gazette which has generated some . . . um . . . heat.

We’re also delighted to have Stephanie Cromwell, who directs the Rooftop at VisArts. Did you know you can rent the Rooftop for your own event? It is a very cool space and Stephanie will talk about some of the ins and outs — and just what is possible!

Just go here to listen on Friday at noon.

(Note: There won’t be a show on Friday, September 26. Work is getting in the way.)