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August 2013 News

• 8-30-13 Montgomery County Dept. of Transportation:  Bikeshare Coming Soon to Montgomery County -- Memberships Now Available
• 8-30-13 Montgomery County Dept. of Transportation:  Go Montgomery -- MCDOT to Construct Dual Bikeway on Woodglen Drive
• 8-30-13 Bethesda Now:  See What Zoning Rewrite Could Mean For Your Community
• 8-30-13 Bethesda Now:  Purple Line Planners Meet With Unhappy Homeowners
• 8-30-13 Joint Base Andrews Gazette:  Parking relocates at Malcolm Grow
• 8-30-13 Gazette.Net:  (scroll down)  Leggett seeks new transportation rules to allow Percontee life sciences project
• 8-30-13 Gazette.Net:  Olympics bid could speed up Montgomery projects -- Purple Line, Shady Grove Arena could get boosts
• 8-30-13 Bethesda Now:  Bethesda Cares Teams Up With Military Medical Students
• 8-30-13 Baltimore Sun:  End of 'driving boom' spurs talk of reshaping state transportation plans -- Young adults in Maryland and across the country are shifting away from cars
• 8-30-13 Baltimore Business Journal:  Beware of cargo cult urbanism in real estate
• 8-30-13 WTOP 103.5 FM (Associated Press):  Dispute over report about secret NSA budget
  • 8-30-13 Washington Post:  The NSA has its own team of elite hackers
  • 8-29-13 Washington Post:  U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary -- U.S. spy agencies have built an intelligence-gathering colossus since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but remain unable to provide critical information to the president on a range of national security threats, according to the government’s top secret budget
• 8-29-13 Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  Eco Friendly Navy Exchange Recognized With Award
• 8-29-13 Bethesda-Chevy Chase Patch:  Pedestrian Safety Initiative Begins in Bethesda -- A county pedestrian safety initiative starts up in Bethesda and Silver Spring
• 8-29-13 Gazette.Net:  Light rail puts Prince George’s on track for more growth, officials say -- Chamber president: County is well-positioned for development spurred by Purple Line
  • 8-29-13 Gazette.Net:  Take a virtual ride through Prince George’s County on the Purple Line -- Train’s path throws many Prince George’s residents’ lives off track
  • 8-28-13 Gazette.Net:  Purple Line: A 2020 vision -- 16-mile light rail line will link Bethesda with New Carrollton
  • 8-28-13 Gazette.Net:  Sounding off on the Purple Line in Montgomery County
• 8-29-13 Frederick News-Post:  Fort Detrick event marks 50 years of Washington-Moscow hotline
• 8-28-13 USA TODAY:  Military civilian medical workers quit after furloughs
• 8-28-13 Washington Post:  Editorial -- D.C. Metro’s Red Line is signaling trouble ahead
  • 8-27-13 Washington Post:  Berliner: Montgomery Co. kept out of loop on possible Red Line closure
  • 8-26-13 WRC/NBC4 TV:  Potential Metro Red Line Closure Years Away -- Structural and maintenance problems at the Friendship Heights and Medical Center stations have Metro considering closure for several weeks
  • 8-26-13 Gazette.Net:  Metro seeks solution for waterlogged stations -- Temporary fixes in place since 2003 study
• 8-28-13 Bethesda Now:  Prep Work For Capital Bikeshare Picks Up
• 8-28-13 WTOP 103.5 FM (Associated Press):  New Park and Ride planned near Hagerstown
• 8-28-13 Gazette.Net:  Wounded warriors show off soccer skills in Germantown -- Program features competition, clinics and camaraderie
• 8-28-13 WRC/NBC4 TV:  (VIDEO)  Military Couple's Photo Prompts Outpouring of Support -- Now home in San Diego, the reality of their new found viral fame is hitting the military couple
• 8-28-13 WTOP 103.5 FM (Associated Press):  Mass. diner-owner apologizes for tossing veteran
• 8-28-13 Gazette.Net:  National Library of Medicine launches history blog
• 8-27-13 Potomac Almanac:  Reacting to Countywide Transit Corridors: But first — context. This "functional plan" does not in and of itself do anything. What it does do is give the County the legal basis for using, and where appropriate, acquiring rights of way for the purpose of accommodating BRT. As such, it is a predicate to being able to do anything in this realm. Much more work and detailed analysis will be done on this system as we move forward, work that the public will be fully engaged in, before our County commits to a specific plan along a specific road. -- Commentary by Council Member Roger Berliner, Chairman of the Transportation, Infrastructure, Energy & Environment Committee
• 8-27-13 Bethesda Now:  Rental Report: Apartment Living for Families
• 8-27-13 NBC News:  Health-care costs for wounded vets to increase for decades to come
• 8-26-13 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Lane closures to begin Monday on Maryland's 355
  • 8-23 13 Maryland State Highway Administration:  MD 355 Safety and Resurfacing Project Begins in Bethesda -- Project Will Improve Ride Quality Between Bradley Blvd and Montgomery Avenue
• 8-26-13 Baltimore Sun:  Walter Reed a leader in breast-feeding promotion -- Letter to the Editor from Cmdr. Gregory H. Gorman, program director, NCC pediatrics residency and pediatric nephrologist at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
• 8-26-13 Washington Post:  Capital Business -- Silver, Purple Lines driving more transit-accessible apartments
• 8-24-13 Washington Post:  Metro weighs options for fixing Red Line water leak -- Metro will determine in the coming months how to fix leaks near the Medical Center station on the Red Line, and among the possibilities is a long-term shutdown of the heavily traveled line or other shorter-duration solutions
  • 8-23-13 Bethesda Now:  UPDATED: Metro Spokesperson: ‘We’re Not Shutting Down The Red Line’
  • 8-25-13 WRC/NBC4 TV:  Metro Could Close Portion of Red Line for Up to Six Weeks -- EXCLUSIVE: Structural and maintenance problems at the Friendship Heights and Medical Center stations have Metro considering closure for several weeks
• 8-23-13 Marine Link.com:  Naval Surface Warfare Center Gets Wavemaking Upgrade
• 8-23-13 Gazette.Net:  Transportation money looks to go evenly to road and transit priorities -- As gas tax money gets doled out, state says the split will be even
• 8-23-13 Gazette.Net:  Montgomery in the fast lane -- County leads Maryland in rapid-growth private companies
• 8-23-13 Joint Base Andrews Gazette:  Phase 1 construction begins at Malcolm Grow
• 8-23-13 Fort Detrick Standard:  National Research Action Plan Responds to Veteran Needs for Mental Health, Brain Injury Care
  • 8-23-13 Fort Detrick Standard:  Military Health System Research Symposium Underway
• 8-23-13 Washington Post:  Troubled veterans may suffer from something other than PTSD -- Commentary by Brian Van Reet, a former sergeant in the Army who served in Baghdad from 2004 to 2005
• 8-23-13 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  Report: Thousands of DoD civilians could face layoffs in 2014
• 8-22-13 Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  Bicycling Workshop Rolls out a New Way to Commute
• 8-22-13 Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  Bethesda Notebook -- (scroll down) Warrior Cafe, Pharmacy Hours for Walter Reed Bethesda
• 8-22-13 Bethesda Now:  County Wants To Form Volunteer Group Of Pedestrian Safety Advocates
• 8-22-13 Washington Post:  Capital Business -- White Flint trying to become Bethesda Row
• 8-22-13 Washington Post:  Pharmacists’ group shows new interest in Purple Line prescriptive
• 8-22-13 Nextgov:  Pentagon Spent Over $4 Billion on Mental Health Treatment Between 2007 and 2012
• 8-21-13 Bethesda-Chevy Chase Patch:  34 Montgomery County Businesses Make 'Fastest Growing' List -- Government services, IT and Health ruled the list of fastest growing businesses in Montgomery County, according to INC magazine
• 8-21-13 News Medical.net:  NIST and USAMRIID scientists advance crucial step in anthrax infection process
• 8-21-13 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Bikeshare still on track for September launch in Montgomery Co.
• 8-20-13 Gazette.Net:  Anatomy of Sports event at local museum educates on how bodies work while playing sports -- National Museum of Health and Medicine’s holds Anatomy of Sports event
• 8-20-13 Washington Post:  Unemployment rates rise in D.C., Md. and Va. -- Unemployment rates rose in the District, Maryland and Virginia in July, the Labor Department reported Monday, a sign that federal spending cuts may be starting to weigh on the region’s labor market
• 8-19-13 Washington Post:  In Afghanistan, redeployed U.S. soldiers still coping with demons of post-traumatic stress
• 8-19-13 Gazette.Net:  Labor official: Federal cuts likely had impact on July job losses -- Private employers in Montgomery, Frederick increased work force last month
• 8-19-13 Hagerstown Herald-Mail:  Area residents have ideas for future of Fort Ritchie land
• 8-19-13 Gazette.Net:  Maryland task force to consider regional transportation funding -- Madaleno one of 11 members appointed by O’Malley
  • 8-18-13 Washington Post:  O’Malley names members of task force on regional transportation project funding
  • 8-17-13 Office of Governor Martin O'Malley:  Governor O’Malley Names Members to the Local and Regional Transportation Funding Task Force -- Leaders to study ways local governments can fund transportation
• 8-19-13 Bethesda Now:  Funding Constraints Slow Neighborhood Improvement Project
• 8-19-13 Bethesda Now:  Forum Presents Meditation As Path To Relief For PTSD Veterans
• 8-19-13 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  Flournoy: Time for a 'good scrub' of DoD's mission, tasks
• 8-19-13 Association of Defense Communities:  Inspector General Cites Geospatial Agency for Violating BRAC Law
  • 8-16-13 Breaking Defense News.com:  NGA ‘Wasted Millions,’ Violated Base Closure Law, Says IG
  • 8-13-13 Inspector General, U.S. Dept. of Defense:  Report No. DODIG-2013-116 -- National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Did Not Comply With Base Realignment and Closure Legislation
• 8-19-13 Washington Post:  Capital Business -- Wegmans gets picky planning Walter Reed store
• 8-19-13 Washington Post:  Capital Business -- Maryland Transit Administration: The case for a Purple Line public-private partnership
• 8-19-13 Bethesda Now:  Purple Line Station Open Houses Scheduled For Next Month
• 8-18-13 Association of Defense Communities:  Harford County, Maryland, Needs Consultant to Perform JLUS for Aberdeen Proving Ground
• 8-16-13 Baltimore Sun:  In 'cyber' Maryland, a bid for business growth -- Business leaders try to leverage federal installations to spur on commercial ventures
• 8-16-13 Joint Base Andrews Gazette:  Andrews Business and Community Alliance meets
• 8-16-13 U.S. Department of Defense:  Navy’s Medical Service Corps celebrates 66th birthday
• 8-16-13 Bethesda Now:  Two Bethesda Zip Codes Among Area’s Wealthiest
• 8-15-13 FOX News:  In about-face, Walter Reed opens dining hall to wounded warriors after Fox News reporting
  • 8-15-13 FOX News:  (VIDEO)  Pentagon quickly reverses change to Walter Reed dining
  • 8-15-13 FOX News:  (VIDEO)  Troubling budget cuts hit Walter Reed Medical Center
• 8-15-13 Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  Warrior Transition Brigade (WTB) Prepares Wounded, Ill and Injured Soldiers for Next Steps
• 8-15-13 Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  Trauma Nursing Core Training, Joint Effort between hospitals
• 8-15-13 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Healing vets' PTSD with transcendental meditation
• 8-15-13 Washington Post:  The other side of the surveillance story -- Walter Pincus Fine Print column
• 8-15-13 Government Executive:  Senator Sees an End to Sequestration, But Not By Oct. 1 -- Defense employees are worried that fiscal 2014 will look a lot like fiscal 2013, except worse: In other words, layoffs instead of furloughs
• 8-14-13 Bethesda Now:  (VIDEO)  Blast Off At 8300 Wisconsin -- Go to the :29 mark of the above video for today’s blast at the 8300 Wisconsin construction site
• 8-14-13 U.S. Department of Defense:  DOD, VA, Other Agencies Team to Study PTSD, TBI
  • 8-12-13 Military.com:  Obama Introduces New PTSD and Education Programs
• 8-13-13 Bethesda Now:  Council Adds Second Day For Bus Rapid Transit Public Hearing
• 8-13-13 Washington Post:  Malaria vaccine shows promise -- Commentary by Michael Gerson
  • 8-12-13 Gazette.Net:  Sanaria leaders encouraged by early malaria study -- Rockville company’s vaccine could hit market in three to five years
• 8-12-13 Bethesda Now:  Suburban Gets $2.5 Million Donation To Help Fund Expansion Project
• 8-12-13 Montgomery County Dept. of Transportation:  O’Malley/Brown Administration announces $630 Million investment in County’s Transportation Network
• 8-12-13 Bethesda Now:  Blasting Will Mean Traffic, Pedestrian Disruptions At 8300 Wisconsin Ave.
• 8-11-13 WRC / NBC4 TV:  Major Road Work to Slog Bethesda, Chevy Chase
  • 8-9-13 State Highway Administration:  SHA Completes Resurfacing on MD 355 in Bethesda Beginning This Sunday Night -- Motorists Should Expect Traffic Impacts on Wisconsin Avenue Through Late Fall
  • 8-9-13 Bethesda-Chevy Chase Patch:  Wisconsin Avenue Resurfacing to Begin Sunday Night: Weather permitting, the work should be completed by the late fall -- The state highway administration will resurface one mile of Wisconsin Avenue (Maryland state Route 355) from Montgomery Avenue to Jones Bridge Road and more than a mile of Wisconsin Avenue from the Washington, DC, line to Bradley Boulevard
• 8-9-13 Montgomery County Dept. of Transportation:  Forest Glen Annex's temporarily closure of gate due to sequestration affects Ride On Route 4
• 8-9-13 Military.com:  Navy Researchers Study New Malaria Vaccine
  • 8-8-13 United States Navy:  Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) Researchers Help Demonstrate Vaccine Protects Against Malaria
• 8-9-13 Gazette.Net:   Report: Purple Line needs $400M to $900M in private funding -- In ‘P3s’ contractors have greater incentive to manage risks
  • 8-8-13 Bethesda Now:  Public-Private Purple Line Partnership Will Be Rare Use Of The Strategy
• 8-8-13 Bethesda Now:  Lot 31 Excavation Almost Done, Road Closure Set For Aug. 17
  • 8-6-13 Montgomery County Dept. of Transportation:  Bethesda Avenue-Woodmont Avenue project (parking lot #31) update: blasting ends; some road closures on August 17
• 8-8-13 Bethesda Now:  Bethesda To Host Forum On Meditation For Combat Veterans With PTSD
• 8-8-13 Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  Navy Medicine National Capital Area Stands Down
• 8-8-13 Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  New Lanes Opening to Improve Traffic Flow
• 8-8-13 Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  Anatomy and Art Collide at NMHM’s Anatomy of Sports Program
• 8-8-13 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Potomac ferry service idea resurfaces
• 8-7-13 U.S. Department of Defense:  DOD’s Top Doctor Calls Military Medicine a Joint Force
• 8-7-13 Gazette.Net:  Walter Reed pharmacies closed on weekends
• 8-7-13 Gazette.Net:  Most of new $1B transportation package for Montgomery is for Purple Line -- Light rail project slated for $680 million
• 8-7-13 Baltimore Sun:  Pentagon cuts civilian furlough days -- 45,000 in Maryland affected; unpaid leave for most to end next week
  • 8-6-13 U.S. Department of Defense:  Savings, Reprogramming Enable Furlough Reduction
• 8-7-13 New York Times:  Deployment Factors Are Not Related to Rise in Military Suicides, Study Finds
• 8-7-13 WTOP 103.5 FM (Associated Press):  Study disputes link between combat and suicide
• 8-6-13 The Hill:  More military base closure? -- Commentary by David S. Sorenson, professor of International Security at the Air War College, and the author of two books on military base closure
• 8-6-13 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Sequester cuts hit Walter Reed; staff members weigh in
• 8-6-13 WJLA/ABC7 TV:  DOD spending cuts hit Walter Reed Hospital in Bethesda
• 8-6-13 Washington Post:  The Federal Page -- At the forefront of vaccine research to safeguard the military
• 8-6-13 Maryland Dept. of Business & Economic Development:  Gov. O’Malley: Maryland transportation investment to create 9,700 jobs
• 8-6-13 Washington Post:  How Capital Bikeshare has grown
  • 8-6-13 Washington Post:  The army behind Capital Bikeshare’s rebalancing
  • 8-6-13 Washington Post:  As Capital Bikeshare expands in popularity and size, it runs into logistical issues
• 8-5-13 Gazette.Net:  State earmarks $1 billion in transportation money for Montgomery -- Purple Line to receive $680 million, CCT slated for $100 million
• 8-5-13 Gazette.Net:  Chevy Chase readies for change as development plan is approved -- U-shaped trio of new buildings will have retail shops and a village green
• 8-5-13 Bethesda Now:  Maryland Looking For Private Funding For Purple Line
• 8-5-13 Bethesda Now:  Suburban Hospital Close To Applying For Expansion Project
• 8-5-13 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Purple Line among O'Malley announcements Monday
• 8-5-13 Washington Post:  Maryland to seek private firm for Purple Line project -- Two other large outlays in the package also were previously announced: $100 million for right-of-way acquisition and design work on the Corridor Cities Transitway, a rapid bus line envisioned along Interstate 270; and $125 million for an interchange at I-270 and Watkins Mill Road
• 8-4-13 Washington Post:  Dr. Gridlock’s traffic, transit tips: What’s happening with ‘single-tracking?’ -- Paving Progress on Connecticut Ave at Jones Bridge Road; ICC Bus Changes
• 8-3-13 USA TODAY:  Military hospitals shrinking services to meet spending cuts: Because of staff furloughs, patients are asked to practice more patience in getting health care needs met -- Patients at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and other premier military hospitals are being sent to private doctors and having surgery and other treatment delayed because of furloughs to medical personnel, according to interviews and internal documents
• 8-2-13 Bethesda Now:  More People Are Walking To Metro, Though Not As Many In Bethesda
• 8-2-13 Bethesda-Chevy Chase Patch:  Leggett: Bikeshare Will Take 'Much Longer Period of Time' to Catch on in Upcounty Than in Bethesda and Chevy Chase -- Roads still need to be prepared for bikers in the upcounty
• 8-2-13 Washington Business Journal:  Walter Reed project would solve a lot of space needs for Children's National Medical Center
• 8-2-13 Baltimore Sun:  New STEM center at Aberdeen Proving Ground open to students
• 8-2-13 Inside NoVA:  Times are changing on I-95 HOV lanes
• 8-2-13 Joint Base Andrews Gazette:  Anatomy and art collide at NMHM’s “Anatomy of Sports”
• 8-2-13 Joint Base Andrews Gazette:  Prince George’s cities brace for Purple Line disruptions
• 8-2-13 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Beleaguered I-95 commuters get temporary relief
• 8-1-13 United States Army:  Harnessing new ideas: Army Research Laboratory's (ARL) high-risk research pushes tech barrier toward new helmet system
• 8-1-13 Bethesda Now:  Bethesda’s Bike Facilities: What’s Here And What’s Missing?
• 8-1-13 U.S. Department of Defense:  Public affairs must face DoD changes
• 8-1-13 Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  Museum Bridges Gap between Medicine of the Past and Medicine of the Future
• 8-1-13 Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  Simulation Center Enhances Medical Education throughout Region
• 8-1-13 Washington Post:  All Opinions Are Local blog -- Do you call roads by names or numbers?
• 8-1-13 Frederick News-Post:  Fort Detrick facility waiting on federal approval to work with toxic materials
  • 8-1-13 Frederick News-Post:  (PHOTO GALLERY)  A look at the new NIAID Lab at Fort Detrick -- The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases lab on the National Biodefense Campus at Fort Detrick

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