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April 7 - May 20, 2010 News

• 5-20-10 Washington Post:  D.C. gets grant for Walter Reed work
• 5-20-10 Washington Post:  Dr. Gridlock's Get There blog -- Input sought on Va. transportation
• 5-20-10 NNMC Journal:  This Week at Bethesda
• 5-20-10 NNMC Journal:  Safe Harbor program supports troops, families
• 5-20-10 NNMC Journal:  Navy Medicine case managers win 'Case in Point' award
• 5-20-10 NNMC Journal:  http://www.mynavyexchange.com/ -- Navy Exchange opens online store, Bethesda location to receive facelift
• 5-20-10 NNMC Journal:  USU graduates more than 200 medical students
• 5-20-10 NNMC Journal:  Stress control conference to educate Sailors, Marines
• 5-20-10 WRAMC Stripe:  Warrior Games
  • 5-20-10 WRAMC Stripe:  Final Standings
• 5-20-10 WRAMC Stripe:  Army surgeon general talks value, trust in care
• 5-20-10 WRAMC Stripe:  Military mothers sought for study
• 5-20-10 U.S. Department of Defense News Release:  Gates Reports on Visit to Carson Warrior Transition Unit
• 5-20-10 Associated Press:  Northeast states seek plan for rail upgrades
• 5-20-10 Baltimore Sun:  Michael Dresser's Getting There blog -- MARC spending over the years
• 5-20-10 Baltimore Business Journal:  Maryland's green version of historic tax credit bill becomes law
• 5-20-10 Baltimore Business Journal:  U.S. Army lobbies for Aberdeen road upgrades
• 5-20-10 Defense Systems:  Army gives battlefield networks high priority -- Host of initiatives aim to give frontline forces latest communications technologies
• 5-20-10 Army Times:  New TBI, mental health center to open in June
• 5-20-10 Washington Business Journal:  Commuter tax in D.C. back in play
• 5-20-10 Washington Post:  Montgomery County raises various taxes
• 5-20-10 Washington Post:  D.C. area Metro agency presents safety priorities
• 5-20-10 Washington Post:  For bicyclists and drivers, navigating traffic is a two-way street
  • 5-20-10 Washington Post:  (GRAPHIC)  Cycling fatalities -- In 2008, 714 cyclists were killed in the United States in crashes with motor vehicles, down 75 percent since 1975 but up 14 percent since 2003. Many more bicyclists were killed in urban areas (68 percent) rather than rural areas (31 percent). In 1975, cycling deaths occurred equally in urban and rural areas
  • 5-18-10 Washington Post:  Dr. Gridlock's Get There blog -- Metro prepares for 'Bike to Work'
  • 5-18-10 Washington Post:  Dr. Gridlock's Get There blog -- Bike to work resources
  • 5-19-10 Washington Post:  (GRAPHIC)  DATABASE: 2008 Bike death statistics -- Florida experienced the highest number of fatal bike incidents in 2008 -- the latest figures available -- with 125 deaths. Nebraska, South Dakota and Vermont logged zero each, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• 5-20-10 WTOP 103.5 FM:  New bike lanes in D.C. not ready for primetime
• 5-20-10 WTOP 103.5 FM:  New Va. Amtrak train continues to top expectations
• 5-20-10 Gazette.Net:  United in fun -- Air show highlights military technology
• 5-20-10 Fredericvk News-Post:  Frederick County economic outlook positive
• 5-19-10 Corridor Inc.:  Maryland among nation's leaders in growing jobs
• 5-19-10 McLean (VA) Connection:  Tysons' Future Density Debated -- Planning Commissioners conduct last meeting before creating Tysons Corner draft plan
• 5-19-10 Washington CityPaper:  Howard's Bid to Move Hospital Worries Those Left Behind
• 5-19-10 WTOP 103.5 FM:  New taxes, fees approved in Montgomery County
• 5-19-10 Washington Post:  Virginia Politics Blog -- UPDATED: U.S. Chamber praises Virginia for free enterprise policies
• 5-19-10 Washington Business Journal:  Johns Hopkins University's Montgomery County campus snags 2 new bio tenants
• 5-19-10 Gazette.Net:  Interchange proposed to move traffic -- Public comments on road between NIH, Navy Med will be accepted through Tuesday
• 5-19-10 Gazette.Net:  Montgomery budget faces test as council sets Thursday vote -- Spending plan likely to include cuts to libraries, transportation
• 5-19-10 Gazette.Net:  Carrier to head planning agency -- Unanimous choice was zoning and hearing examiner
• 5-19-10 Gazette.Net:  Montgomery College picks new president -- Pollard was president at California community college
• 5-19-10 Gazette.Net:  County looks to long-term use of theater -- Economic development department soliciting expressions of interest for Bethesda landmark
• 5-19-10 Gazette.Net:  Private developers express interest in rebuilding two areas of Wheaton -- Opening door yields variety of options
• 5-19-10 Gazette.Net:  Bicyclists to see better signs on path -- Bike committee now hoping to add to more markers to make trails easier to navigate
• 5-19-10 Gazette.Net:  Chelsea School to sell land, move out of Montgomery -- Townhomes expected on site of Silver Spring private school
• 5-19-10 Washington Post:  Francoise Carrier to head Montgomery County, Md., Planning Board
• 5-19-10 Washington Examiner:  Prince William OKs major development plan in Woodbridge
• 5-19-10 Baltimore Business Journal:  COPT plots 15-acre business park in Northern Virginia
• 5-19-10 New York Times:  Grim Milestone: 1,000 Americans Dead
• 5-18-10 Washington Post:  Montgomery revenue off, budget officials rethink values
  • 5-18-10 Washington Post:  (GRAPHIC)  Good times, fiscal realities -- Montgomery County has gotten used to growing budgets but now faces cuts
• 5-18-10 Washington Post:  Fed Faces -- Teri Glass helps save the lives on battle-injured U.S. soldiers
• 5-18-10 Washington Examiner:  Road project near Fort Belvoir faces yearlong delays
• 5-18-10 Washington Examiner:  Metro 'dedicated funding' comes with strings
• 5-18-10 Leesburg (VA) Today:  Revised Transportation Plan: Too Many Lanes? Too Many Roads?
• 5-18-10 Congressional Quarterly CQ Today:  Politics Provides Momentum for Push to Ban Earmarks
• 5-18-10 Marine Corps Times:  Top doctor: Murtha review to be released soon
• 5-18-10 ExecutiveGov.com:  Army Partners with Higher Education in Maryland
• 5-18-10 United States Army News Release:  Six wounded warriors get master's through partnership program
• 5-18-10 Richmond (VA) RVANews.com:  Richmond Fisher House: A home away from home
• 5-18-10 Voice of America:  Service Dogs Help War Wounded -- New film highlights unique relationship, PTSD, mental illness
• 5-18-10 AOL News:  Depression an Aftershock of Traumatic Brain Injuries
• 5-18-10 Salem (OR) News:  Walter Reed Army Medical Center -- Commentary and Poetry by Luke Easter
• 5-17-10 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Loudoun residents counter county's traffic plan
• 5-17-10 Science Insider:  More on Obama's Pick for NCI
• 5-17-10 Baltimore Sun:  Mikulski wants FBI to get a move on (to Maryland)
• 5-17-10 The Infrastructurist.com:  Will Real Estate Developers Build Our Mass Transit?
• 5-17-10 Hampton Roads (VA) Daily Press:  Maryland center opening for TBI and other injuries
• 5-17-10 Washington Post:  Montgomery County scrambles to avoid running out of money by end of fiscal year
• 5-17-10 Polycom, Inc. News Release:  The National Intrepid Center of Excellence and Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund Chooses Polycom Telemedicine Solutions to Care for Military Service Members and Veterans -- Telepresence Equipment to Be Used in World-Class Telemedicine Program for the Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injuries and Psychological Health Issues
• 5-17-10 Washington Post:  Government Contracts Awarded --   (scroll down)  Clark/Balfour Beatty of Bethesda won a $9.5 million contract from the Navy for design and construction of traffic mitigation measures for gates 1 and 2 at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda
• 5-17-10 Washington Post:  Congress may override efforts by Secretary Gates to cut defense spending
• 5-17-10 Washington Post:  Commercial property owners may be asked to pay for part of streetcar costs
• 5-17-10 Washington Examiner:  D.C. taxpayers to pay 70 percent of streetcars costs
• 5-17-10 Washington Examiner:  Area residents feel counties' budget pain -- Montgomery to plan filling $1 billion hole this week
• 5-17-10 New York Times:  At War -- U.S. Troops Suffer More Stress Than Britons, Study Says
• 5-16-10 Washington Examiner:  Fairfax in danger of losing $150 million for BRAC-related road improvements
• 5-16-10 Air Force Times:  Jobs to change with focus on irregular warfare
• 5-16-10 Eating Well.com (May/June 2010):  New Science Links Food and Happiness -- Joe Hibbeln, M.D., believes our diet is making us depressed, addicted and violent. He thinks he's found a simple solution
• 5-15-10 Washington Post:  House Democrat calls out Republicans for defying their party on earmark ban
• 5-15-10 Bayshore (New Jersey) Courier News:  Employment and training help offered for Fort Monmouth employees
• 5-15-10 Jacksonville (NC) Daily News:  DoD investigates Naval Hospital
• 5-14-10 Baltimore Business Journal:  Chief Executive: Maryland No. 27 for business
• 5-14-10 Gazette.Net:  Playing with the big boys -- Small military contractors specialize to grab federal dollars
• 5-14-10 Construction Digital:  Fort Belvoir: Growth continues under BRAC -- Expansion and refurbishment under $4 billion program will give this US Army post in Virginia more workers than the Pentagon
• 5-14-10 Frederick News-Post:  NIH advances plan to send possibly infected researchers to Bethesda
• 5-14-10 Washington Business Journal:  ITT Corp. to add 100 jobs in Howard County
• 5-14-10 Washington Business Journal:  Magazine ranks Virginia 4th for business
• 5-14-10 Washington Post:  What You Said -- Responses on how the federal base closing plans will affect your commute
• 5-14-10 Washington Post:  On Washingtonpost.com -- Excerpt from a recent chat with Derrick T. Dortch, president of the Diversa Group, is a career counselor who specializes in government job searches and military transition
• 5-14-10 Washington Examiner:  Virginia races to redo costly I-95/395 HOT lanes
• 5-14-10 USA TODAY:  Mental care stays are up in military
• 5-14-10 Medscape Medical News:  Returning Soldiers Require Integrated Care for Overlapping Symptoms
• 5-14-10 Baltimore Business Journal:  Baltimore’s incredibly shrinking financial industry takes another hit
• 5-13-10 Joint Base Andrews Capital Flyer:  Joint Base Andrews awards $81 million runway repair contract
• 5-13-10 Joint Base Andrews Capital Flyer:  TEAM ANDREWS spotlight -- Master Sgt. Bobby V. Harris, 779th Medical Support Squadron
• 5-13-10 Joint Base Andrews Capital Flyer:  It could happen to you: Reflections of a Wounded Warrior
• 5-13-10 Joint Base Andrews Capital Flyer:  More bases to advertise vacancies on USAJOBS
• 5-13-10 NNMC Journal:  Commanding Officer's Column -- Naval Support Activity (NSA) Bethesda
• 5-13-10 NNMC Journal:  Fort Belvoir appeals to future employees, military members
• 5-13-10 NNMC Journal:  Exposition highlights maritime developments, ever-changing Navy
• 5-13-10 NNMC Journal:  Bethesda commuters participate in Bike to Work Day
• 5-13-10 Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) News Release:  Preparing to Care for Those in Harm's Way, More than 200 Uniformed Medical Professionals Graduate
• 5-13-10 WRAMC Stripe:  Successful recovery a team effort, says former patient
• 5-13-10 Fort Detrick Standard:  WRAIR Soldiers run spring PT test on new annex track
• 5-13-10 Fort Detrick Standard:  Detrick Alliance Tech Expo
• 5-13-10 United States Army News Release:  Care at Warrior Transition Units: a work in progress
• 5-13-10 Baltimore CityBiz:  Baltimore Apartment Construction Up In Anticipation of Demand
• 5-13-10 Washington Examiner:  Arlington to spend millions revamping Crystal City
• 5-13-10 Washington Post:  Metro considers new capital plan
• 5-13-10 Washington Post:  Planning needed to save farming, county says
• 5-13-10 Gazette.Net:  Montgomery Planning Board votes down Costco amendment -- Proposal next goes to County Council for final vote on fast-tracking zoing approvals
• 5-13-10 Gazette.Net:  Dogfights and Predators -- Prince George's annual air show includes two firsts: Unmanned drone and mock sky fight
• 5-13-10 Gazette.Net:  Transit plan for New Carrollton approved -- Long-term guide calls for mixed-use residential, office space, improved pedestrian and bicycle linkage
• 5-13-10 Washington Examiner:  Va. toll plan sees early opposition
• 5-13-10 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Region No. 2 among strongest economies
• 5-13-10 Politics Daily.com:  Congress on Military Spending Cuts: Not Now, Maybe Never
• 5-13-10 Maryland Daily Record:  Northrop Grumman loss comes down to business reputation, not office space
• 5-12-10 Gazette.Net:  New interchange proposed to move NIH, Navy Med traffic -- Public comments will be accepted on the six proposals through May 25
• 5-12-10 Gazette.Net:  As weather warms, residents flock to trail
• 5-12-10 Gazette.Net:  Emergency bike team begins in Glen Echo -- Bikers will patrol portions of the Capital Crescent Trail, C&O Canal towpath
• 5-12-10 The Hill:  House and Senate do battle over earmarks added to war funding bill
• 5-12-10 Harford County Dagger:  Spring Forward: Harford Home Sales Surge in Final Days of Tax Credit
• 5-12-10 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Filmmaker hopes movie will inspire wounded vets
• 5-12-10 Air Force Times:  Vets group cites errors reported by VA IG
• 5-12-10 Air Force Times:  First lady announces study of military families
• 5-12-10 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  (AUDIO)  Changes at DoD's Medical Education and Training Campus -- Manny Dominguez, transition CIO of DoD's Medical Education and Training Campus, talking with WFED's Jason Miller
• 5-12-10 Self Storage Industry News:  BRAC Relocations Begin Nationwide
  • 5-12-10 Self Storage Industry News:  Self Storage Companies Offer Military Discounts to Relocating Families
• 5-12-10 Frederick News-Post:  Building partnerships to help patients -- Cancer facility poised to be world-class research center
• 5-12-10 Brain and Spinal Cord.com:  Defense Department Creates Databases for Traumatic Brain Injury
• 5-12-10 Associated Press:  Senate panel readies war funding bill, flood aid
• 5-12-10 Washington Examiner:  Montgomery council approves keeping bus routes
• 5-12-10 Gazette.Net:  MTA pushing for additional Purple Line stop in Silver Spring -- Immediate construction of Dale Drive station still opposed by county
• 5-12-10 Gazette.Net:  Business owners fear Metro changes -- Workers in downtown Bethesda could feel brunt of cuts
• 5-12-10 Gazette.Net:  Kensington backs Costco at Westfield -- Residents still uncertain on 16-pump station amendment
• 5-12-10 Gazette.Net:  Kensington Town Center guidelines stalled by zoning, parking issues -- Kensington Town Council to revamp downtown design
• 5-11-10 Washington Post:  Traffic concerns could delay transfer of defense workers to Alexandria
  • 5-10-10 Washington Post:  (VIDEO)  Federal Eye -- BRAC to cause more congested commutes
• 5-11-10 Fairfax Times:  BRAC shifts heighten traffic concerns in southern Fairfax -- Only one road to be completed before defense workers are relocated
• 5-11-10 Federal Times:  BRAC move will give Army post more workers than Pentagon
• 5-11-10 Defence Professionals:  United States DoD contracts for May 11, 2010 --  (scroll down)  Clark/Balfour Beatty, JV, Bethesda, Md., was awarded a $9,511,644 firm-fixed-price contract May 10 for design and construction of traffic mitigation measures for Gates 1 and 2 at the National Naval Medical Center Bethesda.  The work includes repair, upgrade and reconfiguration of two existing entry control points, North Wood Road Gates 1 and 2, and the construction of a visitor center to improve access, security and aesthetics.  Work will be performed in Bethesda, Md., and is expected to be completed by July 2011.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was procured as a sole source in accordance with FAR 6.302-1, “only one responsible source.” The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Washington, Officer in Charge of Construction, Bethesda, Md., is the contracting activity (N40080-10-C-1504).
• 5-11-10 Federal Times:  NGA headquarters will be largest LEED-certified building
• 5-11-10 Congressional Quarterly CQ Today:  House Leaders Want Senate to Vote First on War Funding Bill
• 5-11-10 AOL News:  Retirees May Be Gates' Toughest Military Foe
• 5-11-10 Air Force Times:  IG: VA lags on meeting own care standards
• 5-11-10 Washington Post:  Gen. Keith Alexander confirmed to head cyber-command
• 5-11-10 Frederick News-Post:  Construction of cancer research center in Frederick complicated
• 5-11-10 United States Army News Release:  Amputee on active duty carries torch to Warrior Games
• 5-11-10 Modern Healthcare.com:  VA's overhaul of VistA could cost billions
• 5-11-10 CNN:  Building Up America -- Drivers, bicyclists clash on road sharing
  • 5-11-10 Bicycling.com:  America's Top 50 Bike-Friendly Cities
• 5-10-10 WRC/NBC4-TV:  (VIDEO)  Thousands of Jobs, One Major Problem -- Officials hold the first in a series of meetings on the impact of BRAC job relocations in northern Virginia
• 5-10-10 New York Times:  At War: Notes From the Front Lines -- Life and Death and Life in Iraq
• 5-10-10 Gazette.Net:  Region tops in bio education, expenditures -- Greater Washington among industry's top five, report says
• 5-10-10 Lynchburg (VA) News & Advance:  McDonnell wants to charge toll at N.C. line on I-95
• 5-10-10 Washington Post:  Capital Business -- The cybersecurity boom
  • 5-10-10 Washington Post:  Capital Business -- Is region ready for a cybersecurity corridor?
• 5-10-10 Washington Business Journal:  Survey: Commercial real estate stabilizing
• 5-10-10 Gazette.Net:  Costco wants warehouse and gas station fast-tracked
• 5-10-10 Federal Computer Week:  Access granted: NIH opens doors to medical resources -- Users with industry-standard online identity credentials can now access secure Web applications
• 5-9-10 Washington Post:  Crush of defense workers headed for N.Va. creates challenges, opportunities -- Plans to move more than 19,000 defense workers to far-flung sites along Interstate 95 in Northern Virginia by fall 2011 are expected to add thousands of car commuters to the region's road network, further clogging an area with the nation's second-worst traffic.  State and local officials, running short of time and money, aren't certain they can do enough to widen roads, build exit ramps and make other fixes by the deadline mandated by the 2005 federal base realignment and closings plan. Making matters worse, many workers will move from public transit even as regional policymakers push for job growth near transit lines.
  • 5-9-10 Washington Post:  (GRAPHIC)  Relocation toll -- Big changes in commuting along Northern Virginia's interstates are coming in fall 2011, causing many officials to worry that the traffic patterns could result in massive tie-ups
• 5-9-10 Washington Post:  Gates: Cuts in Pentagon bureaucracy needed to help maintain military force
• 5-9-10 Washington Post:  Book Review -- Sebastian Junger's 'War,' reviewed by Philip Caputo
• 5-9-10 Washington Post:  Dr. Gridlock -- Modified Barnes Dance crossing gets a spin in the District
• 5-9-10 Washington Post:  Va. HOT lanes may stretch farther to Md.
• 5-9-10 Washington Post:  The sky really is falling at Metro -- Commentary by Christopher Zimmerman, member of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority board and vice chairman of the Arlington County Board
• 5-9-10 Washington Post:  Nation's suburbs show increasing diversity, Brookings report finds
• 5-9-10 Baltimore Sun:  Maryland attracts teacher candidates -- State escapes the school budget cuts that are common elsewhere
• 5-9-10 Baltimore Sun:  Planners see the future in Columbia proposal -- Counties trying to turn malls into the new urban neighborhoods
• 5-9-10 New York Times:  Economic View -- Trading Up: Buy a Base, Help Cut the Deficit -- Commentary by Richard H. Thaler, professor of economics and behavioral science at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago
• 5-9-10 Annapolis Capital:  Q&A: Helping small businesses survive, succeed -- Business counselor Hollis Minor talks about the issues and the resources
• 5-8-10 Washington Post:  Pentagon: Troop pay too generous -- Warnings of fiscal calamity; Congress insists military compensation is sacrosanct
  •  5-8-10 Associated Press:  Gates steps up campaign to slash defense waste
  • 5-8-10 Defense News:  Senior DoD Leaders Warn of Rising Personnel Costs
• 5-8-10 U.S. Department of Defense News Release:  Gates Calls for Significant Cuts in Defense Overhead
  • 5-8-10 U.S. Department of Defense News Release:  Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, Abilene, KS, Saturday, May 08, 2010
  • 5-8-10 Bloomberg Business Week:  Gates to Target U.S. Military Bureaucracy in Fiscal 2012 Budget
• 5-8-10 Washington Post:  Roger K. Lewis Shaping the City column -- Terms, mind-sets must be changed to encourage and enable more walking in cities
• 5-8-10 Washington Post:  Federal workers play key roles for the nation -- Commentary by Max Stier, president and chief executive of the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service
• 5-8-10 Baltimore Sun:  Flanagan opposes mixed-use community near Dorsey MARC -- Former transportation official switches sides
• 5-7-10 Washington Post:  Howard seeks Walter Reed land for hospital, health colleges
  • 5-7-10 Washington Post:  The 23 groups vying for Walter Reed land
• 5-7-10 Washington Business Journal:  Perkins and Will chosen as master planner of Walter Reed
• 5-7-10 Washington Post:  Maryland reverses decision to defer $56 million payment to Metro
• 5-7-10 Washington Post:  Bill to expand federal workers' telecommuting options falls short in House
• 5-7-10 Corridor Inc.:  Boomtown: New cyber agency would create more jobs in Odenton
• 5-7-10 Baltimore Business Journal:  Md. tech industry’s stock-market rebound led by 'creative destruction'
• 5-7-10 Baltimore Sun:  State achieves minority business goal -- One-quarter of state contracts go to minority-owned businesses
• 5-7-10 Gazette.Net:  Small businesses tap Largo fair -- Hundreds explore opportunities in green practices, BRAC
• 5-7-10 Gazette.Net:  Bio bounces back from downturn -- Montgomery, Baltimore eye new growth in industry
• 5-7-10 Gazette.Net:  Industry, public officials pitch state at BIO convention in Chicago -- About 30 Maryland firms represented at global event
• 5-7-10 Gazette.Net:  Commercial Real Estate: BioMed Realty buys Venter's campus -- Genetics research institute to lease buildings in Rockville
• 5-7-10 Gazette.Net:  Many see face time as ‘first step to getting a contract' -- About 800 flock to annual procurement conference in Rockville
• 5-7-10 Gazette.Net:  Blair Lee's My Maryland column -- (Business) climate change
• 5-7-10 Washington Examiner:  Fairfax officials roll out tax options to pay for Tysons
• 5-7-10 Southern Maryland Newspapers Online:  Facility nearly ready for new Navy workers -- Hoyer joins festivities celebrating explosives development expansion
• 5-6-10 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Pedestrians to 'dance' through busy intersection
• 5-6-10: NNMC Journal:  Deputy Commander for Integration and Transition's column -- Newest members of the NNMC Integration and Transition Team
• 5-6-10: NNMC Journal:   This Week at Bethesda -- New Organizational Structure
• 5-6-10 WRAMC Stripe:  Surgeon general stays focused on meeting needs of wounded warriors
• 5-6-10 WRAMC Stripe:  Nurse case team helps recovering troops manage care
• 5-6-10 WRAMC Stripe:  Inaugural Warrior Games begin Monday
• 5-6-10 Washington CityPaper:  Twenty Three Dreams for Walter Reed
• 5-6-10 Associated Press:  VA limits surgeries at some hospitals after deaths
• 5-6-10 American Medical Association:  Navy launching telepharmacy project -- The system will connect more than 100 Navy medical sites, allowing pharmacists to staff several locations remotely
• 5-6-10 Washington Post:  In Montgomery budget fallout, AFL-CIO cancels interviews
• 5-6-10 New York Times:  War Zone Traumas Restaged at Home
• 5-6-10 Washington Examiner:  Fairfax eyes more tolls to fund high-speed transit network
• 5-6-10 Washington Examiner:  Fairfax economic group buys TV time in major cities
• 5-6-10 Washington Examiner:  D.C. rolls out streetcar for $1.5 billion citywide network
• 5-6-10 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Streetcars could be free in parts of D.C.
• 5-6-10 Baltimore Sun:  Republicans block federal telework measure -- Claim $30 million plan, introduced by Democrat John Sarbanes of Maryland, would increase budget deficit
• 5-6-10 University of Maryland Diamondback:  Purple Line may be built partially underground
• 5-6-10 Frederick News-Post:  Scientists descend on Detrick’s annual Spring Research Festival
• 5-6-10 Northern Virginia Daily (Strasburg, VA):  Virginia leaders stress development of work force to address globalization
• 5-5-10 U.S. Department of Defense News Release:  Surgeon General Describes Transition Unit Challenges
• 5-5-10 U.S. Department of Defense News Release:  Defense, VA Expand Work on Traumatic Brain Injuries
• 5-5-10 United States Army News Release:  Vice Chief of Staff visits Fort Carson Warrior Transition Unit
• 5-5-10 Navy Times:  Mullen apologizes for comments on wounded care -- Disabled American Veterans had issued a statement blasting comments made recently by the JCS chairman
• 5-5-10 WAVY-TV10 (Hampton Roads, VA):  Gates' Navy comments draw criticism -- Reaction to questioning size, nature of US fleet
• 5-5-10 Washington Post:  Montgomery County backs out of raises for public employees
• 5-5-10 Washington Post:  Montgomery council gives the go-ahead to 'science city' plan
  • 5-5-10 Washington Post:  (MAP)  Science City Project Approved -- The Montgomery County Council Tuesday approved up to 17.5 million square feet for a life sciences city that officials hope will rival Research Triangle, N.C., and Palo Alto by attracting federal agencies and bioscience companies to new office space, and adding more retail and housing.
• 5-5-10 Washington Post (Associated Press):  Md. town rejects speed cameras
• 5-5-10 Washington Post:  Purple Line advocates worry about U-Md. plans to alter use of Campus Drive
• 5-5-10 Washington Post (Associated Press):  Powerful House chairman David Obey to retire
• 5-5-10 Congressional Quarterly CQ Today:  House Appropriations Chairman Obey to Retire
• 5-5-10 Gazette.Net:  Projects in Woodmont, Bethesda Avenue move slowly -- Woodmont East plans may shift; Verizon line reroute holding up Lot 31
• 5-5-10 Gazette.Net:  County council approves 'Science City' plan -- Residents remain wary after unanimous vote
• 5-5-10 Gazette.Net:  Westfield officials warn that it's all or nothing for Costco -- Gas station must be fast-tracked through county or store will move on, they say
• 5-5-10 Gazette.Net:  Council says no to employee raises -- Leggett, unions could go back to the bargaining table
• 5-5-10 WTOP 103.5 FM:  D.C.'s first new streetcar rolls into town
• 5-5-10 Washington Business Journal:  GSA mulls FDA lease in Rockville
• 5-5-10 Maryland Gazette (Anne Arundel County):  Fort Meade Alliance shakes up leadership -- New director should be named in a few weeks
• 5-5-10 Baltimore CityBiz:  "BRAC: Basics for Business" Conference Next Tuesday
• 5-5-10 Baltimore Business Journal:  Baltimore among best cities for new grads
• 5-4-10 Veterans Today (U.S. Department of Defense News Release):  U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards --  (scroll down)  Clark/Balfour Beatty, JV, Bethesda, Md., is being awarded a $24,135,408 firm-fixed-price contract for design and construction of an approximately 1204-space multi-use parking structure located in the community services district at the National Naval Medical Center Bethesda.
• 5-4-10 Washington Business Journal:  J. Craig Venter Institute sells Rockville headquarters
• 5-4-10 Washington Business Journal:  Montgomery County greenlights 'Science City'
• 5-4-10 Washington Post:  Makeover for Metro oversight panel
• 5-4-10 Washington Post:  Work nearly finished on Pennsylvania Ave. bike lanes in D.C.
• 5-4-10 New York Times:  Army Exams Units Treating Injured Soldiers
• 5-3-10 Gazette.Net:  Report: Bio booming in Maryland -- Government, company officials pitch state at international trade conference in Chicago
• 5-3-10 Baltimore Sun:  Michael Dresser's Getting There blog -- State puts BRAC project out for bid
• 5-3-10 Baltimore Sun:  Michael Dresser's Getting There blog -- MTA to compete for share of $775 million
• 5-3-10 KXRM/FOX21-TV (Colorado Springs):  Fort Carson holds News Conference over article over the Warrior Transition Unit at Fort Carson
• 5-3-10 Defense News:  Gates: U.S. Must Rethink Expensive Warships, Carriers, EFV
• 5-3-10 Associated Press:  Gates suggests big changes coming for Navy
• 5-3-10 Directions Magazine (National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency News Release):  NGA Awards Contract for Base Operations and Services-East
• 5-3-10 Washington Post:  Regional Real Estate Report: FDA building earns LEED gold
• 5-2-10 Washington Post:  When the money is needed, Maryland will deliver for Metro -- Commentary by Beverley Swaim-Staley, Maryland's Secretary of Transportation
• 5-2-10 Washington Post:  Dr. G's Tips: Dr. Gridlock's tips for the D.C. area --  (scroll down)  I-95 lane closing
• 5-2-10 Washington Post:  Andrew Alexander's Ombudsman column -- Did a Post photographer cross a line to get a picture of John Hinckley?
• 5-2-10 Baltimore Sun:  Northrop loss raises questions of business environment in Maryland -- Defense contractor relocating headquarters to Virginia
• 5-2-10 Wilmington (DE) News Journal:  Delaware military: Fisher House starts building at Dover Air Force Base -- Work starts on military families' 'comfort home'
• 5-1-10 Los Angeles Times (Associated Press):  As PTSD cases rise and rules for claims ease, VA warned that more frauds will slip through
• 5-1-10 San Francisco Chronicle (Associated Press):  PTSD diagnosis a moving target
• 5-1-10 Frederick News-Post:  A look inside new biodefense labs
• 5-1-10 Air Force Times:  Fisher House to open haven for kin at Dover
• 4-30-10 Congressional Quarterly CQ Today:  Late Reports From Agencies Rile Congress
• 4-30-10 Gazette.Net:  Bicycle committee urges Rockville to better mark bike lanes -- Enthusiasts say more riders will use them if they can find them
• 4-30-10 Alexandria (VA) Times:  Streetcars — desired or not?
• 4-30-10 Corridor Inc.:  Baltimore nonprofit steers BRAC newcomers to city living
• 4-30-10 Washington Business Journal:  For Northrop Grumman, HQ search was full of surprises
• 4-30-10 Baltimore Business Journal:  ManTech International subsidiary relocating to APG
• 4-30-10 Gazette.Net:  Post-Northrop soul-searching -- Calls anew for a friendlier business climate in Maryland
• 4-30-10 Gazette.Net:  Officials tap arsenal to lure jobs -- Counties, state use grants, tax breaks, other incentives
• 4-30-10 Washington Post:  Fare plan puts most of burden on Metro users
• 4-30-10 Baltimore Sun:  Revised Red Line plan scraps single track in favor of double -- MTA proposal adds second track to tunnel below Cooks Lane in West Baltimore
• 4-30-10 Corridor Inc.:  Transportation: Q&A with Beverly K. Swaim-Staley, Md. Dept. of Transportation Secretary
• 4-30-10 Corridor Inc.:  Bracing for BRAC: Area colleges respond 
with STEM
• 4-30-10 Maryland Daily Record:  Real Estate Weekly: Construction starts on fourth Water’s Edge building; GBC to host BRAC summit
• 4-30-10 ABC News:  Treating Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder With a Jab to the Neck -- New Research Suggests Numbed Nerves Could Cure Anxiety and Flashbacks in Veterans
• 4-30-10 U.S. News & World Report (HealthDay):  Local Anesthetic May Relieve PTSD Symptoms -- Military doctors report success with 2 men who had not been helped with drug treatment
• 4-30-10 Baltimore Business Journal:  Final hours of tax credit could bring modest uptick in Baltimore-area home sales
• 4-29-10 NNMC Journal:  NNMC transfers base functions to Naval Support Activity-Bethesda (NSA)
  • 4-29-10 NNMC Journal:  Special Edition -- ''NSA Bethesda"
• 4-29-10 NNMC Journal:  Navy researchers partner to develop vaccine
• 4-29-10 WRAMC Stripe:  Walter Reed salutes command sergeant major -- Diggs praised for commitment to warrior care, families, Army
• 4-29-10 Fort Detrick Standard:  Fort Detrick town hall meeting highlights employees success
• 4-29-10 Fort Detrick Standard:  Air Force Medical Support Activity opened new doors in April
• 4-29-10 Fort Detrick Standard:  Army Community Covenant celebrates second year in April
• 4-29-10 Navy Times:  Gates: Personnel directorate falling short
• 4-29-10 Corridor Inc.:  BRAC: Q&A with Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown
• 4-29-10 Corridor Inc.:  Drained transportation budget leaves major project in limbo
• 4-29-10 Washington Post:  Montgomery County 'science city' development nears approval
• 4-29-10 Washington Post:  Supervisor keeps an eye on downtown Bethesda
• 4-29-10 Washington Examiner:  Montgomery council tweaks Science City plan
• 4-29-10 Washington Examiner:  Metro ridership falling below expectations, despite strong March
• 4-29-10 Laurel (MD) Leader:  College's new lab is training field for cyber defense
• 4-29-10 Springfield (VA) Connection:  Supervisors Worry About Telegraph Widening Project
• 4-29-10 Baltimore Sun:  Wounded veterans ride bikes through Baltimore -- Injured in Afghanistan and Iraq wars, cyclists look to raise awareness about their plight
• 4-28-10 Montgomery County Council News Release:  Leggett Sends Proposed Transportation Policy Area Review to County Council; Policy Will Help Guide Future Transportation Investment Decisions
• 4-28-10 Delaware Business Ledger:  Cecil County home community takes aim at BRAC relocation market
• 4-28-10 Washington Post:  Government Careers with Derrick Dortch, Career counselor -- The first thing I want to do is make an announcement about The BRAC CAREER FAIR on Tuesday, May 18th.
• 4-28-10 New York Times:  Grand Makeover Is Set for Maryland Strip City -- Over the last century, Rockville Pike in Montgomery County, Md., has grown, unfettered and unplanned, into a sprawling strip city — a hodge-podge of shopping centers, parking lots and gridlocked traffic that frustrates motorists and discourages pedestrians.
• 4-28-10 Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett News Release:  Leggett Sends Proposed Transportation Policy Area Review to County Council; Policy Will Help Guide Future Transportation Investment Decisions
• 4-28-10 Gazette.Net:  Officials take on revision of roadway guidelines -- Some roads would be reclassified
• 4-28-10 Gazette.Net:  Purple Line prompts look at Chevy Chase -- Growth plans to be developed for areas around proposed light rail line stations
• 4-28-10 Gazette.Net:  County makes bid for medical institute -- Officials also mark expansion of Hughes research facility in Chevy Chase
• 4-28-10 Gazette.Net:  Government sends businesses in Montgomery mixed signals -- Leggett proposes doubling energy tax; Floreen champions development group
• 4-28-10 Gazette.Net:  State, counties eye efforts on development guidelines
• 4-28-10 Gazette.Net:  County cuts trickle down to community budgets -- Kensington mayor says proposal ‘not acceptable'
• 4-28-10 Gazette.Net:  Leaders agree on Metro oversight -- D.C. delegate frustrated by lack of progress
• 4-28-10 Gazette.Net:  Blogspot could be the new mid-county meeting spot -- County government puts focus on blogs to draw in participation
• 4-28-10 Washington Examiner:  Area housing market shows signs of rebound
• 4-28-10 Baltimore Sun:  Marylanders pay more in vehicle operating costs, due to rough roads, according to report -- But more federal maintenance funds are spent to fix highways, bridges than in other states
• 4-27-10 United States Army News Release:  Surgeon general: Nothing to hide at WTUs
• 4-27-10 NextGov Technology and the Business of Government:  Workforce Mapping Walter Reed, Bethesda
• 4-27-10 Government Executive:  Army surgeon general notes concern about drugs prescribed to wounded soldiers
• 4-27-10 WTTG/FOX5-TV:  DC to Debut First Modern Streetcar
• 4-27-10 Baltimore Business Journal:  Northrop Grumman wooed to Virginia by real estate, not dollars
• 4-27-10 USA TODAY:  Troops' care facility listed critical -- The Pentagon effort to consolidate two premier hospitals for treating wounded troops has more than doubled in price and is so rudderless that an independent review and a bipartisan group of legislators say the care could suffer.
  • 4-23-10 U.S. Department of Defense:  Comprehensive Master Plan for the National Capital Region Medical -- Creating a World-Class, Integrated Healthcare Delivery System in the National Capital Region  (189 pp)
  • 1-22-10 Correspondence from House Armed Services Committee
  • 3-25-10 H.R. 4949, a Bill to establish within the Office of the Secretary of Defense an office responsible for implementing all recommendations and requirements regarding military medical facilities in the National Capital Region.
  • May 2009:  "ACHIEVING WORLD CLASS: An Independent Review of the Design Plans for the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the Fort Belvoir Community Hospital"  (68 pp)
• 4-27-10 USA TODAY:  A bumpy economic recovery, with hope in Midwest, South -- But even within states, the recovery is not monolithic. Most of Maryland is still in a moderating recession, but Bethesda - a suburb of Washington, D.C. - is rebounding, thanks to steady federal employment  and a health care boom that's lifting its medical research facilities.
• 4-27-10 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Fairfax supervisors consider widening Telegraph Rd.
• 4-27-10 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Does D.C. have an anti-car bias?
• 4-27-10 Washington Business Journal:  Governor: Quality of life attracted Northrop Grumman to Virginia
• 4-27-10 Washington Post:  Thousands of defense workers switching to General Schedule pay system
• 4-26-10 Montgomery County Council News Release:  Montgomery Business Development Corporation Announced Today With Combined Private Business, Government Support
• 4-26-10 U.S. Department of Defense News Release:  Official Calls Wounded Warriors Report 'Unrepresentative'
• 4-26-10 FOX News:  Army Fights Claim Wounded are Mistreated
• 4-26-10 Stars and Stripes:  Army downplays story on WTU at Fort Carson -- Survey: 90 percent 'satisfied' with level of care
• 4-26-10 Colorado Springs Gazette:  Fort Carson says it welcomes scrutiny, will continue review of trauma care
• 4-26-10 ABC News:  Pentagon Pushes Back on Soldier Neglect Story -- Top Medical Officer Refutes Report Saying Soldiers Treated in "Warehouses of Despair"
• 4-26-10 Boston University BU Today:  Soldier-Doctor Woodson Called On by Obama -- MED prof picked as assistant secretary of defense for health affairs
• 4-26-10 Washington Examiner:  Fairfax supervisors to vote on Telegraph Road expansion
• 4-26-10 NewsChannel 8:  Officials Propose Higher Fees for Parking in Bethesda
• 4-26-10 Washington Business Journal:  Northrop Grumman selects N. Virginia
• 4-26-10 Gazette.Net:  Governor: Northrop Grumman chooses Va. over Maryland -- Business leaders say state needs to work harder on business climate
• 4-26-10 AZoBuild.com:  GSA Selects Architectural Firm HOK for New NCI Research Campus Project
• 4-26-10 Washington Post:  DC picks planner for Walter Reed site
• 4-26-10 Washington Post:  Impact of War -- Is public talk about PTSD making it harder for vets?: Commentary by Ryan Gallucci -- Ryan Gallucci is an Iraq war veteran, currently serving as deputy national communications director of AMVETS and editor of American Veteran magazine. He served in Iraq from 2003 to 2004, earning a meritorious Bronze Star for his work in civil reconstruction and public administration. He left the Army Reserve in 2007 as a sergeant
• 4-26-10 Corridor Inc.:  Costello to build National Museum of Health and Medicine
• 4-26-10 Frederick News-Post:  Army green -- Fort Detrick to LEED-certify construction
• 4-26-10 Washington Examiner:  Court: DUI applies to D.C. bicyclists
• 4-25-10 Seattle Times (Associated Press):  Pentagon official asked to quit as head of wounded-warrior care -- A Pentagon official in charge of the government's wounded-warrior program says he has been forced to resign
• 4-25-10 New York Times:  In Army's Trauma Care Units, Feeling Warehoused -- G.I.'s Describe Despair and Isolation in Trauma Units
• 4-25-10 Washington Post (Associated Press):  Pentagon Wounded Warrior care official forced out
• 4-25-10 Washington Post:  Editorial -- Spooked by financial meltdown, Montgomery discovers austerity
• 4-25-10 Washington Post:  Tax relief could reopen budget gap in Prince George's, Md.
• 4-25-10 Washington Post:  Amtrak ridership is up, but passengers grouse about frequent delays
  • 4-25-10 Washington Post:  (GRAPHIC)  Track your train -- Is your trip on Amtrak's Northeast Regional train between Washington and Boston likely to be sluggish or speedy? Depends on the day of the week, so you may want to book your travel accordingly. Here's a look at the train's on-time performance for 2009
  • 4-25-10 Washington Post:  (GRAPHIC)  Are we there yet? -- We follow two Amtrak trips to see how the scheduled and actual arrival times deviate
• 4-25-10 Washington Post:  U.S. high-speed rail's ship finally comes in
• 4-25-10 Baltimore Sun:  Editorial: Bad for business? -- Our view: Maryland gets criticized for its taxes and regulations, but it nonetheless led the nation in job gains last month
• 4-25-10 Fredericksburg (VA) Free Lance-Star:  Amid the gloom, glimmers of hope -- Quarterly economic review of Fredericksburg area
• 4-25-10 Frederick News-Post:  Partnering to improve pedestrian safety
• 4-24-10 Baltimore Sun:  Washington-to-Baltimore exodus slows with economy -- Fewer move from D.C. to Baltimore area; more go the other way
• 4-24-10 Washington Post:  Roger K. Lewis Shaping the City column:  Smart growth incorporates lessons from planning mistakes
• 4-24-10 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Md. plan to deal with population growth of 1 million
• 4-24-10 Northern Virginia Connection Newspapers:  Bus Rapid Transit System for I-66? -- Local officials discuss traffic solution for I-66 corridor
• 4-24-10 Salt Lake Tribune:  From combat to lockdown: Vets in trouble -- Trading military uniforms for prison attire
• 4-24-10 Big Hollywood.com:  GI Film Festival: Wounded Champions; Not Victims
• 4-24-10 London (UK) Daily Mail:  World's first leg transplant to be given go ahead
• 4-24-10 Baltimore Sun:  Anne Arundel rejects giving developers a break on impact fees -- In compromise, fees will be doubled over two years instead of increased annually
• 4-23-10 Foreign Policy:  Tom Ricks' The Best Defense national security blog -- The Stanley purge
• 4-23-10 WMAR/ABC2-TV (Baltimore):  Budget Woes in Maryland May Shortchange Preparations For BRAC
• 4-23-10 USA TODAY:  Military's health care costs booming
• 4-23-10 Directions Magazine:  NGA (National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency) Marks Earth Day with Tree Planting at New Headquarters
• 4-23-10 Dayton (OH) Daily News:  Hospitals see more military patients -- One administrator says the economy, other external factors led to surge
• 4-23-10 U.S. Department of Defense News Release:  Documentary Inspires Warrior Games Athletes
• 4-23-10 U.S. Department of Defense News Release:  VA Strives to Prevent Veteran Suicides
• 4-23-10 Gazette.Net:  Free parking may be eliminated for Rockville Library -- Paid parking could also be reinstated at Bethesda Library
• 4-23-10 Gazette.Net:  Takoma Park to protest latest $600,000 hit to fiscal 2011 budget -- Montgomery County to withhold more of city's tax-rebate money
• 4-23-10 Washington Business Journal:  Commercial Real Estate -- In Occoquan, there's hope for the future - and a new campaign
• 4-23-10 Washington Business Journal:  D.C.-area incomes rank among nation's highest
• 4-23-10 Johnstown (PA) Tribune Democrat:  Navy amphibious ship to honor Congressman Murtha
• 4-23-10 Washington Post:  Budget squeeze tightens for Montgomery
• 4-23-10 Washington Post:  D.C. area Metro transit agency backing off service cuts
• 4-23-10 Washington Post:  Editorial -- The brave new Tysons Corner, and how we'll get there
• 4-23-10 Washington Post:  Bill in front of Md. Gov. O'Malley would cost Prince George's $18 million
• 4-23-10 WRC/NBC4-TV:  Less Money, More Taxes in Montgomery Co.: County deals with large -- and unexpected -- budget deficit
• 4-23-10 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Montgomery Co. looks to curtail budget woes
• 4-23-10 Gazette.Net:  Maryland sees more than 35K new jobs created in March -- State led nation in gains; most recent numbers reverse negative 19-month trend
• 4-23-10 Gazette.Net:  Leggett proposes deficit actions -- Plan includes doubling energy tax, increasing fee for cell phone use
• 4-23-10 Gazette.Net:  Barry Rascover On Politics column -- Fiscal spotlight likely to turn more toward counties
• 4-23-10 Gazette.Net:  Montgomery County makes bid for medical institute and its 400 jobs -- Ignite's plans in Fairfax stymied as backing collapses
• 4-23-10 Gazette.Net:  Commercial Real Estate: Federal share of office market dwarfs all others -- Uncle Sam picks up slack in private-sector leasing
• 4-23-10 Gazette.Net:  Mum's the word on Northrop Grumman -- Decision on headquarters move expected any day
• 4-23-10 Gazette.Net:  Growth by the book -- State, counties eye coordinated efforts on development guidelines
• 4-22-10 Baltimore Sun:  Second Opinion -- Maryland bad for business? Perhaps not
• 4-22-10 Air Force Times:  Army, AF seek funds for facilities, housing
• 4-22-10 Navy Times:  18 veterans commit suicide each day
• 4-22-10 U.S. Department of Defense News Release:  Adaptive Sports Give Wounded Warriors Confidence
• 4-22-10 U.S. Department of Defense News Release:  Better Prosthetics Coming for Wounded Warriors
• 4-22-10 Financial Times:  Vaccine development: Hopeful results lead to first large-scale trial
  • 4-22-10 Financial Times:  Disease development: New strain develops ways round immunity
• 4-22-10 WJZ-TV13 (Baltimore):  Motorcycle Deaths Decline In Maryland
• 4-22-10 NNMC Journal:  The president of The Joint Commission speaks -- Dr. Chassin addresses NNMC personnel
• 4-22-10 NNMC Journal:  NNMC names ‘voice’ of hospital, promotes access
• 4-22-10 NNMC Journal:  Campaign fosters communication between family members, providers
• 4-22-10 WRAMC Stripe:  Capital-Area medical centers set for reorganization
• 4-22-10 WRAMC Stripe:  WTB commander inducted in OCS Hall of Fame
• 4-22-10 WRAMC Stripe:  Warrior sets goals beyond Warrior Games -- Soldier determined not to be slowed down by stroke
• 4-22-10 Joint Base Andrews Capital Flyer:  Merge planned for 316 WG, 11 WG
• 4-22-10 Corridor Inc.:  WTU, soldier and family assistance center break ground
• 4-22-10 Frederick News-Post:  Americans favor military over other federal institutions
• 4-21-20 Army Times:  Surgeon picked to be new DoD top doctor
• 4-21-10 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Budget woes may halt numerous area road projects
• 4-21-10 WTOP 103.5 FM (Capital News Service):  MTA planner worried Ehrlich's return could kill Purple Line
• 4-21-10 Maryland Gazette (Anne Arundel County):  Work begins at Fort Meade on wounded soldiers' center -- Facility will serve those needing extended treatment
• 4-21-10 Baltimore CityBizList:  Fort Meade Alliance names two new members to board of directors
• 4-21-10 Washington Post:  Recession could result in deep school staff layoffs, larger class sizes
• 4-21-10 Washington Post:  Regional plan seeks tougher oversight of Metro
• 4-21-10 Gazette.Net:  Bethesda parking fees could be on the rise -- Charge for Saturday, commuter hike considered
• 4-21-10 Gazette.Net:  Planning Board OKs Safeway project -- 18-story building in downtown Wheaton bypasses height limit by offering public space
• 4-21-10 Gazette.Net:  Conflict heats up over proposed hospital in upper Montgomery -- State to meet with Holy Cross, Adventist HealthCare next month
• 4-21-10 Corridor Inc.:  Leaving the legislature: Bill Bronrott
• 4-21-10 WMAR/ABC2-TV (Baltimore):  Harford County Family Farm Makes Way For Development
• 4-21-10 Annapolis Capital:  Editorial -- Our Say: Developers, county making a good swap for bad times
• 4-21-10 Baltimore City Paper:  3 Feet Wide and Rising -- Baltimore's future as a cycling city depends on advocacy from its cyclists
• 4-21-10 Washington Business Journal:  Plan for Baileys Crossroads moves forward
• 4-21-10 Congressional Quarterly CQ Today:  State Officials Push to Include Road Projects in 'Livable Communities' Initiative
• 4-21-10 MSN Health and Fitness (HealthDay):  Wounded Soldier Spared Diabetes With Emergency Transplant -- Improvised surgery saved his life, and may lead to new options to treat type 1 diabetes
• 4-21-10 BBC News:  US military wages war on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• 4-20-10 United States Navy News Release:  Building Enlisted Medical Education, Training for the 21st Century
• 4-20-10 Congressional Quarterly CQ Today:  Extra War Funding Anticipated, But Lawmakers Not in Any Rush
• 4-20-10 WJLA/ABC7-TV:  Wounded Service Members Train for 1st Warrior Games
• 4-20-10 NextGov - Technology and the Business of Government:  Defense develops traumatic brain injury databases
• 4-20-10 Maryland Reporter.com:  State property tax rate expected to hold steady
• 4-20-10 Baltimore Business Journal:  To headhunters, Baltimore's job market is on the mend
• 4-20-10 Arbutus Times:  Input sought on safer bicycle, walking paths in western Baltimore County -- Planner says he would like to see residents make walking, bicycling a 'way of life'
• 4-20-10 Fairfax Times:  Rapid bus plan pushed for congested I-66 corridor -- State's budget woes likely to throw up roadblock to improvement plans
• 4-20-10 Business Week (Bloomberg.Net):  Mullen Sees ‘Huge’ Needs as Iraq, Afghan War Veterans Surge
• 4-20-10 Washington Examiner:  Md. cities to raise property taxes
• 4-20-10 Fairfax Times:  Scope of toll lanes could grow -- State's private partners propose 1.6-mile extension of new beltway lanes
• 4-19-10 New York Times (Associated Press):  Once Branded a Coward, He Fights for PTSD Victims
• 4-19-10 Senator Ben Cardin News Release:  Senator Cardin Helps Break Ground for New Ft. Meade Soldier Assistance Center -- Senator Was Instrumental in Getting Military Funds for New Center
• 4-19-10 Gazette.Net:  Maryland's job growth soars in March -- State led nation in workforce gains with 35,800
• 4-19-10 Asbury Park (NJ) Press:  Fraud hotline set up at Maryland base inheriting Fort Monmouth's mission
• 4-19-10 Navy Times:  Deal reached on family caregiver benefits
• 4-19-10 U.S. Department of Defense News Release:  Capital-area Medical Centers Set for Reorganization
  • Joint Task Force National Capital Region Medical (JTF CapMed) web site
  • U.S. Department of Defense Military Health System web site
• 4-19-10 Washington Post:  Washington's Moment: The pieces are in place for the next great burst of business across the region
• 4-19-10 Washington Post:  Virginia makes a move for Northrop Grumman
• 4-19-10 Washington Examiner:  Pain of state budget cuts loom for region
• 4-19-10 Washington Examiner:  VRE to run new express commuter train from Fredericksburg
• 4-19-10 Annapolis Capital:  Contract school offers exciting new opportunity for county -- Commentary by Kevin M. Maxwell, superintendent of Anne Arundel County Public Schools
• 4-18-10 Petersburg (VA) Progress-Index:  Editorial -- Open rest areas are nice, but what about Virginia's roads?
• 4-18-10 Maryland (Anne Arundel County) Gazette:  DISA expo lures 5,500 job hunters -- Fort Meade, Maryland officials brace for imminent BRAC boom
• 4-18-10 Annapolis Capital:  Business Digest: Maryland gains 35,800 jobs in March, leads U.S.
• 4-18-10 Annapolis Capital:  Let's make a deal: Schools for housing developments -- Developers fund schools to make way for building projects
• 4-18-10 Annapolis Capital:  Realities of Real Estate: Market update
• 4-18-10 Fredericksburg (VA) Free Lance-Star (Associated Press):  Quantico Marine base promotes public transit
• 4-18-10 Frederick News-Post:  Stimulating biotechnology: Signs of recovery apparent in challenging environment
• 4-18-10 SIGNAL Magazine (AFCEA - Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association):  DISA -- An Agency In Transformation
• 4-18-10 Washington Post:  The debate over D.C. streetcars is coming down to the wires -- Would streetcars in D.C. spoil the city's vistas?
• 4-17-10 Frederick News-Post:  Stimulating biotechnology: Maryland has embarrassment of riches and challenges
• 4-17-10 Maryland (Anne Arundel County) Gazette:  Business Digest -- County sets date for annual tour
• 4-17-10 Maryland Gazette (Anne Arundel County):  Impact fee delay will hurt our county -- Commentary by Albert Johnson, vice president for public affairs of the Greater Severna Park Council
• 4-16-10 Baltimore Business Journal:  Federal defense agency seeks to hire several hundred workers at Fort Meade
• 4-16-10 Frederick News-Post:  Flaws delay opening of Detrick lab
• 4-16-10 U.S. Department of Defense News Release:  Army Researchers Continue Fight Against Malaria
• 4-16-10 Baltimore Business Journal:  Federal defense agency poised to hire up to 80 at Fort Meade
• 4-16-10 Annapolis Capital:  Arundel Digest -- (scroll down)  Meade job fair traffic jam likely
• 44-16-10 Gazette.Net:  Commercial Real Estate: Office market sluggish, but renewals helpful -- New leases starting to reverse trend
• 4-16-10 Gazette.Net:  Assessing the session -- Business leaders largely pleased with results, but wary of what's to come next year
• 4-16-10 Gazette.Net:  Counties grapple with leaner spending plans -- Baltimore executive strikes deal with unions to confront structural deficit
• 4-16-10 Washington Examiner:  Area retail vacancy rate lowest in country, report says
• 4-16-10 Washington Examiner:  Fairfax plans to devote millions to affordable housing
• 4-16-10 Baltimore Business Journal:  Maryland lawmakers kick transportation spending, tax plans down the road -- Special commission will present funding alternatives by 2012
• 4-16-10 Baltimore Business Journal:  NSA opens up to Maryland contractors -- NSA’s Barnett says firms needed to fight cyber terrorism
• 4-16-10 Washington Business Journal:  Councilman Jim Graham pushes H Street streetcar over Anacostia
• 4-16-10 Newswise -- USUHS (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences) News release:  Socioeconomic Status Linked to Vehicle Safety
• -16-10 Air Force Times:  Ash plume over Europe affects medevac flights
• 4-16-10 Georgetown University Voice:  In a new theater class, Father Richard Curry will help veterans cope with war
• 4-15-10 United States Army News Release:  Surgeon general says new centers to help with blast injuries
• 4-15-10 Maryland Daily Record:  Report: D.C. suburbs primed for retail growth
• 4-15-10 Cleveland Plain Dealer (McClatchy-Tribune News Service):  VA laboring under surge of wounded veterans: Analysis -- Cost of fighting wars felt decades later
• 4-15-10 WRAMC STripe:  BRAC -- Placement offers to WR civilian staff to be made by July
• 4-15-10 WRAMC Stripe:  Warriors, families learn to adjust to a 'new normal' off Walter Reed
• 4-15-10 WRAMC Stripe:  Warriors train for inaugural Warrior Games
• 4-15-10 WRAMC Stripe:  'Warrior Champions' documentary to be shown at Walter Reed
• 4-15-10 Fort Detrick Standard:  Army public health strengthened by transformation
• 4-15-10 Fort Detrick Standard:  Balfour Beatty Communities Foundation extends deadline for scholarship applications
• 4-15-10 Montgomery County Council News Release:  Councilmember Phil Andrews’ Statement On Council’s Preliminary Approval of Great Seneca Science Corridor Master Plan
• 4-15-10 Washington Post:  John Kelly's Washington column -- Disabled veteran's mission: to help wounded soldiers and kin
• 4-15-10 Washington Post:  AAA opposes D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty's proposal to raise parking rates
• 4-15-10 Washington Business Journal:  Advocates say poor road conditions cost D.C. area
• 4-15-10 Alexandria (VA) Gazette-Packet:  Triple Left Threat: Thousands of Department of Defense commuters to descend city streets -- Commentary by Michael Lee Pope
• 4-15-10 Washington Examiner:  Taxes soar for region's residents
• 4-15-10 Wilmington (DE) News Journal:  Delaware Air National Guard could lose one C-130 -- Air Force's transfer plan for its giant planes meets opposition
• 4-15-10 Petersburg (VA) Progress-Index:  Editorial -- Much more transformation at Fort Lee
• 4-14-10 Nextgov Technology and the Business of Government:  House grills Defense health officials about centers of excellence
• 4-14-10 The Oregonian:  Cycling -- Conservative lawmaker asks if LaHood is on drugs for saying bikes should equal cars
• 4-14-10 WTOP 103.5 FM (Associated Press):  More aboard! Amtrak weighs long route improvements
• 4-14-10 Washington Business Journal:  Maryland Computer Services Association merges with Tech Council of Maryland
• 4-14-10 U.S. Department of Defense News Release:  Military’s Top Doctors Discuss Centers of Excellence
• 4-14-10 Baltimore CityBiz:  Fort Meade Alliance and USO of Metropolitan Washington join forces to furnish Fort Meade Wounded Warrior Center
• 4-14-10 Washington Examiner:  Montgomery's budget gap grows to nearly $1 billion -- Millionaires fleeing state tax cause 82 percent of income drop
• 4-14-10 Washington Post:  Montgomery furlough proposal spurs equity debate among county employees
• 4-14-10 Washington Business Journal:  Montgomery County tentatively OKs Gaithersburg West plan
• 4-14-10 WTOP 103.5 FM (Associated Press):  Transportation's bicycle policy hits potholes
• 4-14-10 WTOP 103.5 FM:  On the road, who rules? Cyclist or driver?
• 4-14-10 Gazette.Net:  Tired refrain: Budget picture worsens for Montgomery County -- Shortfall almost $1B; more cuts likely to services, programs
• 4-14-10 Gazette.Net:  Job growth, economic development key to sustainable economy -- Commentary by Gigi Godwin, president and CEO of the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce
• 4-14-10 Gazette.Net:  Considering economy, county fared well in 2010 session, legislators say -- Busch praises General Assembly for cuts, preserving bond rating; GOP less effusive
• 4-14-10 Gazette.Net:  Five candidates vie for Planning Board chair in Montgomery -- Each to be interviewed next month; current chairman's post expires in June
• 4-14-10 Gazette.Net:  Council moves toward a smaller Science City -- Gaithersburg West renamed ‘Great Seneca Science Corridor'
• 4-14-10 Gazette.Net:  Proposal would furlough all county employees -- School system cooperation would be necessary
• 4-14-10 Gazette.Net:  Opponents kick sidewalk plan to the curb -- Supporters cite pedestrian safety in Takoma Park
• 4-14-10 Gazette.Net:  Planners hope to usher in new downtown era -- Search is on for group to develop public land
• 4-14-10 Gazette.Net:  Planning board approves plan for Glenmont garage -- Board upset Metro didn't meet guidelines
• 4-14-10 Gazette.Net:  Council opposes fast track for Costco -- Community expresses concern over environmental costs
• 4-14-10 Gazette.Net:  Board approves plans for apartments, new park -- Planners say mixed-use project will revitalize area
• 4-13-10 Federal News Radio AM 1500:  (AUDIO)  DISA career fair coming to Ft. Meade
• 4-13-10 WTOP 103.5 FM:  New museum to highlight 20th and 21st century wars
• http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2010/04/12/daily27.html
  4-13-10 Washington Business Journal:  Hylton family donates site for Wartime Museum in Pr. William
• 4-13-10 New York Times:  For Pediatricians in the Military, Duty Always Calls
• 4-12-10 Gazette.Net:  Medical office markets faring better than many, firm says -- Baltimore, D.C. suburbs have vacancy rates below U.S. average
• 4-12-10 Washington Business Journal:  Parking meters could cost $3 an hour in D.C.
• 4-12-10 Chicago Tribune:  Costs soar for compensating veterans with mental disorders -- PTSD and other psychological disorders are becoming a costly consequence of wartime service
• 4-12-10 Washington Post:  Drivers say Washington region's traffic has gone from bad to worse
  • 4-12-10 Washington Post:  (GRAPHIC)  Washington area's congested roads -- Transportation Poll Data
  • 4-12-10 Washington Post:  How information for Washington Post survey was gathered
• 4-12-10 Washington Examiner:  Governments squeeze drivers to fill budget gaps
  • 4-12-10 Washington Examiner:  Region braces for more drivers
• 4-12-10 Washington Examiner:  Poor development decisions undermining job growth in Prince George's
• 4-12-10 Washington Business Journal:  Expert: High-speed rail isn't economic silver bullet
• 4-11-10 Fredericksburg (VA) Free Lance-Star:  Quantico takes aim at easing congestion -- Quantico Marine Corps Base encourages Marines, civilian employees to try transit
• 4-11-10 Wilmington (DE) News Journal:  Jobs and housing market go hand in hand
• 4-11-10 Maryland Daily Record:  Proposed Langley transit center has tradeoff
• 4-11-10 Gazette.Net:  Lawmakers sign off on $32M state budget -- Two House Republicans join Dems in support
• 4-11-10 Associated Press:  Revolving door of multiple tours linked to PTSD
• 4-11-10 New York Times:  Novelties -- Grabbing Gracefully, With Replacement Fingers
• 4-11-10 Long Island Newsday:  LI company makes prosthetics even more lifelike
• 4-10-10 Baltimore Sun:  Area jurisdictions squabble over Washington Metro shortfall -- Maryland to defer payment of $28 million in capital funding
• 4-10-10 Southern California Public Radio:  Obama Funds A Place For Vets To Heal
• 4-10-10 Maryland (Anne Arundel County) Gazette:  Restaurants still hiring as unemployment increases -- Most only hire a few but more coming
• 4-10-10- SIGNAL Magazine (AFCEA - Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association):  Convergence Aids the Edge -- The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is restructuring its infosphere to allow users at the edge to access and share the information that they need in the form that they want
• 4-9-10 Corridor Inc.:  BRAC Bulletin: State seeks federal funds for BRAC transportation issues
• 4-9-10 New York Times:  Letters to the Editor: Ways to Honor Those Who Served -- scroll down to read letter from Bill White, President of the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, which mentions the National Intrepid Center of Excellence at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.
• 4-9-10 Washington Post:  Maryland legislators reach deal on budget over roads, teacher pensions
• 4-9-10 Washington Post:  Developers call for new regional entity to guide area's growth
• 4-9-10 Washington Post:  Department of Veterans Affairs reaching out to vets via blogs and social media
• 4-9-10 Gazette.Net:  Biodefense rivals face common woes, competition -- Major federal report could have far-reaching impact on anthrax vaccine companies
• 4-9-10 Gazette.Net:  Growing focus: Making the drug fit the disease -- New law promotes personalized medicine, could help state companies
• 4-9-10 Gazette.Net:  Biotech research can fuel economic recovery -- Commentary by Richard A. Zakour, executive director of the MdBio Division and MdBio Foundation for the Rockville-based Tech Council of Maryland/MdBio
• 4-9-10 Gazette.Net:  Costco on the mind in Montgomery County -- Commentary by Gail Ewing, retired at-large Montgomery County Council member
• 4-9-10 WAMU 88.5 FM:  (AUDIO)  More Growth Needs More Cooperation, Says New Group
• 4-9-10 Washington Times:  Editorial: Freeways are the solution to congestion -- Let's stop blowing cash on tolls and rail
• 4-9-10 Washington Examiner:  Region's economy to nearly double in next 20 years, economist says
• 4-9-10 Washington Examiner:  Cash-strapped VDOT expands outsourcing
• 4-9-10 Washington Examiner:  Fairfax won't fund Ignite biotech center
• 4-9-10 Maryland Daily Record:  Fairfax's loss could be Montgomery's gain
• 4-9-10 Business Wire:  Fitch Rates Frederick County, MD's GOs 'AA+'; Outlook Negative
• 4-9-10 Southern Maryland Baynet.com:  BRAC Fraud Hotline Established to Report Procurement Fraud at Aberdeen Proving Ground
• 4-8-10 Washington Business Journal:  New 2030 Group to look at regional issues
• 4-8-10 Baltimore Sun:  Michael Dresser's Getting There blog -- MDOT dodges a budget bullet
• 4-8-10 WRAMC Stripe:  Forest Glen express parking lot to close
• 4-8-10 WRAMC Stripe:  Public Health Command slated for fall stand-up
• 4-8-10 WRAMC Stripe:  Walter Reed honors returning Soldiers
• 4-8-10 WBAL AM 1090:  Maryland Lawmaker Leaves For Obama Administration
• 4-8-10 American Trucking Association -- Transport Topics Online:  Bill Bronrott to Be FMCSA Deputy -- President Obama plans to name former Maryland legislator and trucking industry critic Bill Bronrott to be deputy administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
• 4-8-10 Gazette.Net:  Bethesda delegate taking post with U.S. Department of Transportation -- Bronrott to depart House this month, work in Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
• 4-8-10 Gazette.Net:  Andrews a 'mighty micro-economy', O'Malley says -- Meeting with military leaders and community, governor says base expansion will aid state's economic recovery
• 4-8-10 Gazette.Net:  UM student group wants greener East Campus -- College Park officials say energy, water, traffic control should be major issues
• 4-8-10 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Low-cost option to keep traffic flowing: Clear wrecks faster
• 4-8-10 NNMC Journal:  Deputy Commander for Integration and Transition's column -- JTF CapMed Civilian Human Resources Council
• 4-8-10 Long Branch (NJ) Atlanticville:  From Signal Corps to satellites, fort's role documented -- Fort Monmouth archives will follow base to Md.
• 4-7-10 Baltimore Sun:  Helping put veterans to work -- Commentary by Alexander M. Sanchez and Edward J. Chow Jr., Maryland's secretaries of Labor, Licensing and Regulation and Veterans Affairs
  • 4-5-10 Baltimore Sun:  Vets' next battle: finding a new job -- A bad economy, multiple deployments and a lack of degrees keep service members' jobless rates high
• 4-7-10 Baltimore Business Journal:  Baltimore-area sheds 36,400 jobs in past year
• 4-7-10 Maryland-National Capital Park & Planning Commission (M-NCPPC):  Transportation Planners Schedule Public Meetings on Montgomery County Master Plan of Highways Project
  • M-NCPPC:  2011 Master Plan of Highways & Transitways
• 4-7-10 Washington Post:  Md. budget puts D.C. area Metro funding in doubt
• 4-7-10 Washington Business Journal:  Montgomery County Economic Development Authority plan altered
• 4-7-10 Frederick News-Post:  Army: Broken procedures led to lab infection
• 4-7-10 Gazette.Net:  Floreen to alter development authority proposal -- Requirement for private funding would be eliminated
• 4-7-10 Gazette.Net:  Tax increases among budget proposals -- Downcounty communities look to save, and raise, money
• 4-7-10 Gazette.Net:  Study: Public transit riders save $9K on gas -- But latest increase in Metrorail ridership likely due to festival, weather
• 4-7-10 Gazette.Net:  Online auction set for Bethesda federal building -- GSA sets opening bid at $14 million
• 4-7-10 Gazette.Net:  Office building looms large for Chevy Chase -- Some concerned with the proposed development outside the town's boundary
• 4-7-10 Gazette.Net:  Harris Teeter open for business -- Residents hope increased traffic at development will pique retailer's interest
• 4-7-10 Gazette.Net:  Dangerous intersection in Wheaton to get some help -- State to install warning signs for pedestrians; residents ask for stoplight
• 4-7-10 Gazette.Net:  Green space guidelines irk downtown Silver Spring property owners -- Officials stress report won't negatively affect proposed projects
• 4-7-10 Gazette.Net:  Land use for hospital site remains undecided -- City awaits outcome of finances, health care reform
• 4-7-10 Washington Business Journal:  Protest of NCI $84M BRAC award withdrawn
• 4-7-10 U.S. Department of Defense News Release:  Shinseki: VA Tackles Root Causes of Homelessness
• 4-7-10 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  VA to test fix to health record sharing system 

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