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April, 2015 News 

• 4-30-15 BISNOW:  DC's Top 9 Tech Hubs: From startups to large companies, DC is a full-fledged tech hub—fixing government headaches and disrupting how we shop, eat and bank -- #3 Rockville/Bethesda
• 4-30-15 Virginia Connection Newspapers:  Alexandria: Mayoral Standoff -- Differences between incumbent Mayor William Euille, current Vice Mayor Allison Silberberg, and former Mayor Kerry Donley emerged during a debate as the three took turns directing blame for Alexandria’s current problems on each of the other two during the first mayoral debate.... The shifting blame became most apparent during the candidates’ discussions on BRAC-133.
• 4-30-15 Bethesda Magazine:  Montgomery County Planning Staff Recommends Brick or Stone Exterior for Police Station -- The new station is being developed by StonebridgeCarras on Bethesda’s Rugby Avenue as part of a deal with Montgomery County
• 4-30-15 Washington Post:  House bill threatens to slash federal funding for Metro
  • 4-29-15 The Hill:  DC Metro funding in half -- D.C.-area lawmakers say funding should be left intact while safety issues are resolved
• 4-30-15 Washington Post:  Leggett pleads with Montgomery Council not to add more spending
• 4-29-15 Potomac Connection:  After many delays, renovation began last week on the abandoned roller hockey rink at Potomac Community Center, which will soon serve athletes with disabilities. The rink could also benefit Wounded Warriors, an organization supporting disabled veterans in partnership with Walter Reed National Medical Center and Disabled Sports USA, as well as other programs in the county that serve those with disabilities.
• 4-29-15 Bethesda Now:  Council Moves To Restore Funding For Bethesda Urban Partnership
• 4-29-15 Bethesda Now:  Private School Busing Program Hits The Skids At County Council -- A pilot program for busing private school students using public school buses and drivers likely won't happen again next school year
• 4-29-15 Washington Business Journal:  One D.C. architecture firm will take on a major overhaul for NIH
• 4-28-15 Gazette.Net:  Army research building in Silver Spring targeted for renovations -- Project to include modernizing animal research facility
• 4-28-15 Roll Call:  Back in BRAC: Advocates Say It's Been Too Long -- Rep. Adam Smith, the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, was trying again this week to persuade his colleagues that they should allow a round of military base closings and realignments in the interest of saving money
  • 4-28-15 Roll Call:  Who Made Who: BRAC Came From Congress -- Closing big military bases has always been politically difficult, given the economic benefits of their payrolls and purchases to surrounding areas. Congress made it even more difficult in 1977 with a law restricting the military's ability to shed excess infrastructure
• 4-27-15 Bethesda Magazine:  Saturday Parking May No Longer Be Free in Bethesda -- County considers charging for parking in garages and lots
• 4-27-15 Washington Post:  Fairfax receives $8 million for traffic relief on Route 1 and two other roads -- Fairfax officials were most pleased about the funding for Route 1, which was affected heavily by the expansion of Fort Belvoir under the federal Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) consolidation of military installations.
• 4-27-15 Bethesda Now:  POLL: Demand Pricing Likely For Bethesda Parking Lots
• 4-26-15 Bethesda Magazine:  To Celebrate 10th Anniversary, Strathmore Reaches out to ‘East County,’ Veterans
• 4-25-15 Frederick News-Post:  Detrick VA clinic staff report unclean rooms, lack of training -- Health Employees at Fort Derrick’s Veterans Affairs clinic say the findings of an inspector general’s report don’t tell the entire story about unclean conditions and mismanagement there
• 4-24-15 Gazette.Net:  Plans for Westward in Bethesda met with skepticism from residents -- Gazette.Net:  'We don’t need to have these major developments to have positive change happen in our neighborhoods’
  • 4-23-15 Bethesda Now:  Planners Put Lower Building Heights, New Park, Bicycle Lanes In Westbard Plan
• 4-23-15 Bethesda Now:  Should MoCo Change Its Traffic Standards? -- Councilmember Roger Berliner says Montgomery County should change the way it evaluates traffic when it comes to new development
• 4-23-15 Washington Post:  Maryland’s top highway, transit officials resign -- Melinda Peters said she wants to spend more time with her children, while Robert Smith tells reporter he was asked to leave
• 4-23-15 Washington Post:  Hogan will sign body camera bill, remains noncommittal on Purple Line
• 4-23-15 WUSA TV:  Can US agencies balance security and the Constitution?: In our test from Montgomery County, into DC, and into Arlington County, VA., we were repeatedly given illegal orders to stop filming from public places near security sensitive buildings, violating the first amendment -- One agency, Naval Support Activity Bethesda, has already apologized and is making changes to better protect the base and citizen rights.
• 4-23-15 Association of Defense Communities:  OEA Makes $175M Available to Local Districts to Upgrade On-Base Schools
• 4-22-15 Bethesda Now:  Work Continues On Closed Off Bethesda Street -- Work to replace a culvert that collapsed under Hillandale Road in Bethesda last year has reached the excavation phase
• 4-22-15 Bethesda Now:  MoCo Officials Have No Plans To Move Little Falls Library
  • 4-17-15 Bethesda Now:  Could Little Falls Library Be On The Move?
• 4-22-15 Gazette.Net:  ‘A great time’ to focus on bikes in Montgomery County
• 4-22-15 Montgomery Community Media:  (VIDEO REPORT)  Mayor Jud Ashman on the Corridor Cities Transitway
• 4-22-15 Baltimore Business Journal:  Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab pays $25 million for 54 acres adjacent to campus
• 4-22-15 Association of Defense Communities:  Appropriations Committee Asks for Detailed Analysis of Infrastructure Needs in BRAC Study
  • 4-22-15 Association of Defense Communities:  House Readiness Panel Dismisses BRAC Request
• 4-22-15 Military Times:  House panel backs major military retirement overhaul -- House lawmakers will back a dramatic overhaul to the military retirement system as part of the fiscal 2016 defense authorization bill, including a 401k-style investment plan and an end to the 20-year, all-or-nothing retirement model.
  • 4-21-15 Stars and Stripes:  House defense bill backs plan to overhaul military retirement system -- House lawmakers said Tuesday they will unveil a defense budget this week that calls for overhauling the military retirement system by 2017.
• 4-21-15 Washington Post:  What a haul: Commuter starts D.C. to Rockville trek -- The traveler wants advice on reaching a new job. See how your route matches up with Dr. Gridlock's suggestions.
• 4-21-15 Bethesda Now:  MoCo Teams Up With Business Leaders To Make Final Purple Line Push
  • 4-21-15 Gazette.Net:  Purple Line’s projected economic impact grows -- Updated study shows more jobs, money headed to region if rail line is built
• 4-21-15 Bethesda Magazine:  Purple Line Advocates Question Lobbying by Columbia Country Club Members -- Action Committee for Transit wants Montgomery County to look into whether 2013 deal was violated
• 4-21-15 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Metro to expand car sharing to new stations
• 4-21-15 Bethesda Magazine:  Study: Bethesda Has Fourth Largest Creative Class Population in U.S. -- The creative class is composed of high-paid knowledge workers in fields such as science, technology, business management and health care
• 4-21-15 Bethesda Magazine:  Chevy Chase Cars to Host Warrior Art Exhibition -- The exhibit will feature works composed of used military uniforms and created by veterans
• 4-21-15 Washington Business Journal:  (VIDEO REPORT)  Ike Leggett to take Montgomery County economic development in new direction -- The Department of Economic Development is not long for this world, if the county executive has his way.
• 4-21-15 Baltimore Sun:  More than 100 Aberdeen Proving Ground contractors laid off
• 4-21-15 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  (AUDIO REPORT)  On DoD: Joseph Marshall, director of the Defense Health Agency business support directorate -- The Defense Health Agency is the newest of the combat support organizations that provide services to all of the military departments
  • 4-20-15 THE HILL:  House chairman rules out military healthcare reform this year -- Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) said it would need "some further study."
• 4-21-15 Association of Defense Communities:  House Milcon Panel Calls for BRAC Justification Study
• 4-21-15 Bethesda Now:  Bethesda Now to Merge With Bethesda Beat -- Bethesda Now, which began publishing in August 2012, next month will merge with Bethesda Beat, the daily news publication of Bethesda Magazine
• 4-20-15 BISNOW Commercial Real Estate:  Can Rockville Pike Catch Up to the R-B Corridor? -- Bisnow's event on the Future of Rockville Pike and Wisconsin Avenue debated whether the Pike corridor can compete with Tysons and the R-B corridor.
• 4-20-15 U.S. Congressman Chris Van Hollen:  Van Hollen, Leggett Announce Housing Vouchers for Montgomery County Veterans
• 4-20-15 WTOP 103.5 FM:  D.C., Arlington among most livable cities in U.S.: AARP survey
• 4-20-15 Bethesda Magazine:  Montgomery County Schools Rank High on Post's Challenge Index -- The list ranks schools based on how many AP and other college-level courses students take
• 4-20-15 Washington Post:  With Purple Line decision looming, county officials tout economic benefits
• 4-20-15 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Where’s the worst parking in the area? Take your pick
• 4-20-15 Washington Post:  Washington-area population increase slowing down, census figures indicate
• 4-20-15 Bethesda Magazine:  Bethesda Magazine Acquires Bethesda Now -- Online news briefing will be merged into Bethesda Beat
• 4-20-15 Laurel Leader/Baltimore Sun:  Some see Laurel's new Towne Centre as upscale, 'Taj Mahal'
• 4-18-15 PBS (Associated Press):  Army shutting down wounded warrior transition care units -- For the second time in two years, the U.S. Army is shutting down a number of the specialized medical units that were set up at military bases around the country to help care for severely wounded warriors returning from battle
  • 4-18-15 Military.com:  US Army Will Close 10 Warrior Transition Units -- The Army is closing 10 Warrior Transition Units in a move that will affect some 800 soldiers
• 4-18-15 Washington Post:  Where We Live -- Chevy Chase Village is a touch of suburbia in an urban area
• 4-17-15 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  Pentagon disputes study finding lower vaccination rates for military kids
• 4-17-15 Washington Post:  When the dad who left for war is not the same dad who returns
• 4-17-15 Fort Detrick Standard:  President Lincoln’s Final Hours Commemorated in New Exhibit National Museum of Health and Medicine
• 4-17-15 Baltimore Sun:  Those giant radar balloons at APG didn't alert officials to gyrocopter pilot
• 4-16-15 Association of Defense Communities:  Funding Needed to Alleviate Gridlock outside Bases, Washington Lawmaker Testifies
• 4-16-15 Bethesda Now:  Quicker Bicycling Improvements Possible Thanks To State Bill
• 4-16-15 Bethesda Now:  Local Leaders Urge Council Not To Cut Funding For Bethesda Urban Partnership
• 4-16-15 Washington Post:  Montgomery County appeals case of fence built in Purple Line path
• 4-16-15 Bethesda Now:  (SCROLL DOWN)  Bethesda-Chevy Chase Military Discount Program Grows
• 4-15-15 Gazette.Net:  Westbard plans worry Bethesda merchants
• 4-15-15 Washington Business Journal:  Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Gaithersburg prepare to open wet lab incubator -- Lab space in a project that may help fill a gap left when Montgomery County's biotech incubator shuttered last year.
• 4-15-15 Gazette.Net:  Montgomery County to update bike master plan -- Gazette.NetWill start around the future Corridor Cities Transitway
• 4-15-15 Gazette.Net:  Rockville deals with demographic shifts: Growth of ethnic populations can present challenges in planning, outreach -- According to the Census Bureau’s 2010-12 American Community Survey, 41 percent of Rockville’s population speaks a language other than English, and nearly 17 percent speak English less than “very well.”
• 4-15-15 Military Times:  Senator: Give DoD oversight of VA hospital construction
• 4-15-15 Military Times:  Military medical leaders sound alarm over spending cutsMilitary medical officials warn of consequences of sequestration
• 4-15-15 Federal Times:  Traffic clash: NIH, locals spar over parking spots -- The National Institutes of Health, Montgomery County officials and a federal advisory board are clashing over the parking spots on its Bethesda campus
  • 4-14-15 Bethesda Now:  NIH Director Defends Decision To Add More Employee Parking
  • 4-14-15 Bethesda Magazine:  NIH Says Metro Problems, 24/7 Schedule Create Need for More Parking -- The research center’s director responded to concerns over NIH’s parking ratio in a letter to elected officials
  • 4-14-15 Washington Business Journal:  Metro's no answer: National Institutes of Health stands pat on parking needs in Bethesda -- The NIH has responded to local leaders calling for less parking on the 310-acre campus
• 4-14-15 Gazette.Net:  MCPS looking to save more trees in Kensington middle school plan -- School official says staff making ‘tweaks’ to meet county legal conditions
• 4-14-15 Maryland Capital Gazette:  Cycling commuters push for more dedicated lanes -- As expansion of Route 175 moves ahead, advocates want interconnected routes across Anne Arundel county
• 4-14-15 Bethesda Now:  Neighbors Complain Of Disruptive Construction Workers Near Bethesda Intelligence Site
• 4-14-15 Arlington Now:  Arlington Confident Despite Dubious Economic Indicators
• 4-14-15 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  For better government, consolidate DoD bases, health care programs
• 4-10-15 Bethesda Now:  Lane Closures Coming To 2 Major Bethesda Area Roads -- State Highway Administration (SHA) projects on East-West Highway between Wisconsin Avenue and Connecticut Avenue, and on River Road from the Beltway to Goldsboro Road
• 4-10-15 Bethesda Now:  New Bethesda Apartments, Condos Target June Opening -- The apartment and condominium buildings on what used to be Lot 31 are targeting a June opening date, with some move-ins starting in late May
• 4-10-15 The Fiscal Times:  The Battle Is On to Save Military Bases from Closure
• 4-9-15 BISNOW Commercial Real Estate:  Rockville Pike Revolution -- A look at the development book along Rockville Pike
• 4-9-15 Military Times:  Study: Former troops at high risk for suicide -- A massive study of suicides among post-9/11 military personnel found that troops at the highest risk are those who serve less than a full enlistment
• 4-8-15 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  With or without BRAC, DoD's footprint is shrinking
  • 4-8-15 FEDweek:  DoD Renews Pitch for Base Closings
• 4-8-15 Bethesda Magazine:  Report: Bethesda Has Most Expensive Apartment Rental Rates in D.C. Region -- In March, Bethesda rental rates topped those in the District for the first time
• 4-8-15 Bethesda Now:  Parks Making ADA Improvements To Bethesda Facility
• 4-8-15 Washington Post:  Montgomery County launching start-up accelerator for health-tech companies
• 4-7-15 Bethesda-Chevy Chase Patch:  RideOn Route 34 Bus Service Restored Between Kensington, Friendship Heights -- Montgomery County officials say RideOn Bus 34 will resume full service on April 8 after state highway work cut the route short
  • 4-7-15 Bethesda Now:  Ride On To Restore Regular Service After Bethesda Detour
• 4-7-15 Bethesda Now:  Bicycle Advocates Want Bike Lanes On Busy Bethesda Street
• 4-7-15 Bethesda Now:  NIH Official: Employees Deserve More Parking Because They’re ‘High-Ranking Scientists’
• 4-7-15 Bethesda Magazine:  Smoke Cleared from Bethesda Metro Tunnel -- A Metro maintenance crew cleared an arcing insulator from the track Tuesday morning
• 4-6-15 Bethesda Now:  MCPS And Planners Sparring Over Design Of New Bethesda-Chevy Chase School
• 4-5-15 Association of Defense Communities:  Developer Suspends Maryland Wind Project that Posed Risk to Pax River
  • 3-27-15 Gazette.Net:  Pax River advocates cheer suspension of wind turbine plans -- Fear was project could interfere with radar testing
• 4-5-15 Association of Defense Communities:  DOD Intervention Needed to Fully Leverage Partnership Authorities, Paper Says
• 4-4-15 Military Times:  Military medical students get combat preview
• 4-3-15 Bethesda Now:  Westbard ‘Plan Concepts’ Topic Of April 22 Meeting
• 4-3-15 Utne Reader:  What America's Most Walkable Suburb Can Teach Towns Everywhere -- Real estate developer and business professor Christopher Leinberger calls the DC region the most walkable metropolitan area in the US, edging out New York City on the strength of its suburban areas. Indeed, Silver Spring, White Flint and Bethesda may someday challenge Arlington for the title of America’s most walkable suburb.
• 4-3-15 Bethesda Magazine:  Federal Commission Advises Against NIH Parking Plan -- The National Capital Planning Commission asked the research facility to adhere to a 1:3 parking spot-to-employee ratio for its master plan
  • 4-3-15 Bethesda Now:  Federal Commission Rejects NIH Parking Plan
  • 4-3-15 Montgomery Community Media:  NIH Proposal for More Parking Rejected by National Capital Planning Commission
  • 4-1-15 WJLA/ABC7-TV:  Will added NIH parking spaces affect already overtaxed roadways?
• 4-3-15 Gazette.Net:  Transit center on schedule for spring release, official says -- Silver Spring project originally expected to be completed in 2010
• 4-3-15 Fort Detrick Standard:  Who Was Major Fredrick Louis Detrick?
• 4-3-15 Fort Detrick Standard:  Military Medical Research Conference Reminds Partners Why ‘Business is Personal’
• 4-3-15 Fort Detrick Standard:  New Fort Detrick Gate Hours
• 4-3-15 Military.com:  Army Seeks to Identify Troops, Veterans Exposed to Chemical Weapons
• 4-2-15 New York Times:  Study Finds No Link Between Military Suicide Rate and Deployments
• 4-2-15 Washington Post:  Maryland launches busy road work season -- Crews are working on several long-term projects near the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the National Institutes of Health that are designed to deal with the extra congestion caused by the federal Base Realignment and Closure program launched in 2005. An intersection widening is underway on Rockville Pike at West Cedar Lane. Another BRAC project is widening the intersection of Old Georgetown Road and West Cedar Lane/Oakmont Avenue. Those are scheduled to continue till summer 2016.
• 4-2-15 Bethesda Now:  ‘White Flint 2' Could Get Started This Spring -- This June, planners are set to resume their work on the future of 290 acres around Rockville Pike, though some would like to see it happen sooner.
• 4-2-15 Baltimore Sun:  Harford's population grows, but not by much compared to other decades
• 4-2-15 Washington Business Journal:  GlaxoSmithKline to open global R&D center in Rockville
• 4-2-15 Bethesda Magazine:  Official: Keeping Marriott International in Montgomery is a ‘Must-Win’ for County -- The acting director of the county’s economic development department says the county is intent on keeping the headquarters of the hotel giant
• 4-1-15 USO of Metropolitan Washington:  USO’s Warrior and Family Center at Bethesda Marks First Anniversary and More than 100,000 Servicemen and Women Served  -- Celebration highlights one-year of providing continuous care and support to troops, their families and caregivers on campus
• 4-1-15 NBC News:  Experimental Ebola Shot Shows Good Response
  • 4-1-15 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Results promising after initial human testing of Ebola vaccine -- The vaccine has also “generated a robust immune response in the people who received the vaccine,” according to Col. Stephen Thomas, deputy commander of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, where the first human testing of the vaccine began in October.
• 4-1-15 Bethesda Now:  Bethesda Urban Partnership Debuts More Recognizable Info Kiosks
• 4-1-15 Washington Business Journal:  More details emerge on the federal government’s proposed $443.4M civilian cyber campus
• 4-1-15 Gazette.Net:  Trail users enjoy smooth sailing in Bethesda -- County plans to clear Capital Crescent route again next winter
• 4-1-15 Washington Business Journal:  From soccer to minor league baseball: Making sense of Leidos' sponsorship decisions -- Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) announcement Tuesday it was granted the naming rights for Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen, Maryland, now home of the New York-Penn League’s Aberdeen IronBirds.... The nearby Aberdeen Proving Ground facility is home to the Army’s teams for Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Sensors and Reconnaissance — better known as C4ISR — as well as chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives
   
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