Montgomery County, MD

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Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Projects

IN THE NEWS

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April 16-30, 2013 News

4-30-13 Washington Examiner: District inches closer to developing Walter Reed Army Medical Center
4-30-13 Washington Business Journal: Final plan for Army museum on NCPC's agenda
4-29-13 Washington Post: Gas stations are vanishing from Washington’s inner suburbs -- In Bethesda, in the middle of car-loving suburbia, gas stations are going the way of the drive-in movie
- 4-29-13 Washington Post: (GRAPHIC) Downtown Bethesda’s last gas stations -- Because of skyrocketing land values, Bethesda residents and workers will soon have no gas stations on Wisconsin Avenue
4-29-13 Bethesda Now: Chevy Chase Land Company Argues For 150-Foot Building
4-29-13 Bethesda Now: Developer Plans Townhouses Near Sangamore Road
4-29-13 Bethesda-Chevy Chase Patch: Forbes: Bethesda Has the Best Job Market in the U.S. -- The city has a lower-than average unemployment rate
4-29-13 Washington Business Journal: On the Walter Reed short list: Western, Forest City, Roadside, Hines, Wilkes
4-29-13 Baltimore Business Journal: U.S. Army hunts for up to 165K s.f. near Fort Meade
4-29-13 Gazette.Net: Montgomery councilman wants to encourage cybersecurity investment -- Riemer bill would piggyback on state’s new tax credit
4-26-13 Bethesda Now: Parking Rates Changing, Meters Coming To Cedar Lane
4-26-13 Fort Detrick Standard: Never Before Seen Photos and “Maps” of Albert Einstein’s Brain Go on Display at Medical Museum
4-26-13 Fort Detrick Standard: FITBIR Database Moves TBI Research Forward
4-26-13 Fort Detrick Standard: Seeing the Past and Future of Malaria Research
4-26-13 Joint Base Andrews Gazette: Clinic and Surgery Center hosts Personalized Medicine Research Study
4-25-13 NextGov: So Long TRICARE Health Management Activity, Hello Defense Health Agency -- Bob Brewin's What's Next in Defense IT column
4-25-13 NextGov: Poor Mental Health Is a ‘Signature Scar’ of Afghanistan and Iraq Wars
4-25-13 U.S. Department of Defense: Official Makes Case for More Base Closures, Realignments
4-25-13 Walter Reed NMMC Journal: WRNMMC Resiliency Team Offers Support For Everyone
4-25-13 WTOP 103.5 FM: Montgomery Co. signs contract for bikeshare
4-24-13 Bethesda Now: Harris Teeter Developer Says Planners Misinterpreted Traffic Study
4-24-13 Bethesda Now: Bethesda The Best City For Finding Employment Right Now
4-24-13 American Psychoanalytic Association: Walter Reed Psychiatry Department Chief Cites Talk Therapy as Most Successful Treatment for PTSD in Testimony to House Armed Services Subcommittee
4-24-13 Naval Today.com: US Navy Surgeon General Addresses NATO Medical Conference -- During the conference, Nathan discussed the future of military medicine and the joint nature of battlefield care.... Nathan also discussed the standing up of the Defense Health Agency and the future of jointness within the military health system as a means of cost saving, the creation of standardization, and more interoperability.
4-24-13 Maryland Capital Gazette: Report: Army gives millions less to Fort Meade for daily operations -- Study prepared for Mikulski compares post to other bases
4-24-13 United States Army: Army seeks round of base closure, realignment for 2015
4-24-13 Association of Defense Communities: Air Force Exploring Installation-Community Partnerships, Ferguson Testifies
4-24-13 Association of Defense Communities: Pentagon Not Waiting for Next BRAC, DOD Official Says 4-23-13 Bethesda-Chevy Chase Patch: Police to Step Up Pedestrian Safety in Bethesda This Week -- “We're seeing many, many more instances where pedestrians are not aware of their surroundings. That’s just an evolution of the issue with cell phones—they're taking over more and more of our attention,” said Montgomery County police's head of traffic
4-23-13 Baltimore Sun: Howard, Anne Arundel officials lobby for regional bus system -- Transit lines would link communities to major employment centers
4-23-13 San Francisco Chronicle (Associated Press): Amputated photographer: Hope for Boston survivors
4-22-13 Bethesda Now: Council Committee Recommends Studying Bethesda Purple Line Changes
4-21-13 Washington Post: Suburban bus use climbs across Washington region
4-20-13 Bethesda-Chevy Chase Patch: #MoCo Online: Pedestrians Should Stay 'Street Smart'
4-19-13 Fort Detrick Standard: Never Before Seen Photos and “Maps” of Albert Einstein’s Brain Go on Display at Medical Museum
4-19-13 Gazette.Net: Cycle of challenges -- Counties rank below bicycling commuting average in D.C. and nation
4-19-13 Odenton-Severn Patch: Army Shrinks While Fort Meade Grows -- Community leaders gave feedback on plans to reduce the Army's fighting force, even while other agencies at Fort Meade expand
4-19-13 Federal News Radio 1500 AM: Military groups fight to stop DoD budget proposal
4-18-13 WTOP 103.5 FM: Walter Reed doctors react to Boston bombing amputations
4-18-13 Bethesda Now: Suburban Hospital Gets Planning Board Go-Ahead On Expansion Plan
4-18-13 Walter Reed NMMC Journal: Leaders Urge Staff to Seek Support During Stressful Times
4-18-13 Walter Reed NMMC Journal: Bethesda Notebook -- Programs at the National Museum of Health and Medicine at the Fort Detrick Forest Glen Annex in Silver Spring: Hairball Awareness Day, Civil War Living History, and Arsenic: King of Poisons
4-18-13 Washington Examiner: Prince George's pushes Joint Base Andrews as development catalyst
4-18-13 Washington Business Journal: Virginia awards contract to build I-395 HOV ramp at Seminary -- The Mark Center, home to the Army's Washington Headquarters Service and its 7,000 employees, opened in 2011 as a result of the Base Realignment and Closure process. That it was built at a transit-inaccessible location continues to anger many Northern Virginians who are regularly caught up in the traffic it caused — especially when Metro-accessible locations were in the running.
4-17-13 Bethesda Now: Advisory Board Asks For Funding Increase At Bethesda Regional Center
4-17-13 Federal News Radio 1500 AM: Hagel orders DoD to 'restructure' path toward integrated health record
4-17-13 Gazette.Net: Pedestrian activists on the move -- Police targeting wayward drivers, walkers
4-17-13 Gazette.Net: The complexities and complications of development in Clarksburg -- Some builders frustrated; county trying to get rid of bottlenecks
- 4-16-13 Gazette.Net: Outlet mall coming to Clarksburg -- Plans subject to master plan amendment
4-16-13 OpenMarket.org Blog of the Competitive Enterprise Institute: Lessons On Regulatory Reform: The BRAC Acts
4-16-13 Bethesda Now: Bethesda’s Condo, Apartment Boom Shows Recovering Local Market
4-16-13 Washington Post: ‘Maps’ of Albert Einstein’s brain on display -- “What Can We Learn from a Brain?” at the National Museum of Health and Medicine through May 31
4-16-13 Bethesda Patch: Late September Launch Expected For Downcounty Bikeshare System -- 29 docking stations with 200 bikes are planned for Friendship Heights, Bethesda, Medical Center, Takoma Park and Silver Spring
4-16-13 Washington Post: Walter Pincus Fine Print column -- Congress: Expert at kicking the Defense savings can down the road
4-16-13 Politico: Lawmakers take a stand against proposed BRAC

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