Montgomery County Offering New Services to Aspiring Restaurateurs and Food Entrepreneurs

If you have plans to open a restaurant or dream of starting a food-related business, Montgomery County has two new resources for you. First, the Department of Permitting Services has launched a program called “Recipes for Success” that is aimed at assisting aspiring restaurateurs to navigate the County’s permitting system.  To open a restaurant in […]

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UPDATE: SHA Opts Not to Appeal Pre-Condemnation Ruling from Montgomery County

This is to provide an update on this story from earlier this year, where we successfully defended a property owner’s right to deny the State Highway Administration’s efforts to gain access to his property for environmental testing, and actually had the statute in question declared unconstitutional.  As matters turned out, the State Highway Administration did not appeal this […]

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Can Montgomery County’s Liquor Control System Be Saved?

For the past year, the Montgomery County Department of Liquor Control’s dispensary system, which requires every keg, can, or bottle of alcohol sold within the county to be purchased from the County itself — either directly or indirectly — has been under fire.  The State Comptroller, Peter Franchot, a county native and the state’s chief […]

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