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August, 2014 News
- 8-31-14 Baltimore Sun: New hope for historic road showing its age -- Harford County's U.S. 40 declined with the building of I-95New hope for historic road showing its age
- 8-29-14 Progressive Railroading: FTA advances Maryland's Purple Line project to engineering phase
- 8-29-14 Bethesda Now: NIH Wants New Water Storage Structures On Bethesda Campus
- 8-29-14 Bethesda Now: White Flint Shopping Center Sold, Dont Expect Major Redevelopment
- 8-29-14 WTOP 103.5 FM: Repaving means business is slow on Connecticut Avenue
- 8-29-14 Bethesda Now: Westbard Redevelopment Planning To Kick Off Sept. 23
- 8-29-14 Bethesda Magazine: Planners Say Cycle Tracks Could Complete Montgomery County Bike Network -- New report recommends installation of cycle tracks, particularly in urban areas
- 8-28-14 Bethesda Magazine: Walk to Fly Event to Unite Wounded Warriors, Bethesda Community -- Enjoy a walk and block party for a great cause next month in downtown Bethesda
- 8-28-14 POLITICO: NIH Ebola vaccine trial to start next month -- Later in the fall, a separate study will begin on another experimental Ebola vaccine being developed by the Public Health Agency of Canada and licensed to NewLink Genetics Corp. That will take place at the Walter Reed Army Institute in Maryland.
- 8-28-14 Washington Post: Fence fight: Montgomery judge to consider who owns trail land along Purple Line route
- 8-28-14 Bethesda Now: White Flint Areas Name To Be Discussed At Community Meeting
- 8-28-14 Bethesda Now: White Flint Cycle Track Would Be Montgomery County’s First
- 8-28-14 Fierce Markets-Government: Survey: Military families anxious over job security, budget cuts
- 8-27-14 Washington Post: Town of Chevy Chase wont file Purple Line lawsuit, official says
- 8-27-14 Washington Post: Chevy Chase Land Co. abruptly ousts chief executive
- 8-27-14 Bethesda Now: Emergency Paving Work Set For Rush Hour On Connecticut Avenue
- 8-27-14 Gazette.Net: Bethesda-area neighborhoods seek to impact planning process for downtown -- Worries include impacts on Metro, schools, roads
- 8-27-14 Bethesda Now: Chevy Chase Residents Sue Feds Over Purple Line
- 8-27-14 Frederick News-Post: New Fort Detrick gate nears completion
- 8-26-14 Bethesda Now: MoCo’s Most Congested Intersections Are Probably Familiar
- 8-26-14 Bethesda Magazine: How Smart is Bethesda? -- Let us count the PhDs. Bethesda ranks fifth among U.S. cities with highest percentage of doctoral degrees
- 8-26-14 Christian Science Monitor: Obama lays out plan to overhaul Veterans Affairs (+video) -- Speaking to the American Legion, President Obama outlined a series of executive actions to improve health care accessibility, streamline the transition to civilian life, and help military families achieve economic independence
- 8-26-14 Bethesda Now: Montgomery Parks To Honor Capital Crescent Trail Visionary With Plaque
- 8-26-14 Washington Business Journal: How VDOT's latest mega project, I-395 at Seminary Road, will affect your commute
- 8-26-14 Bethesda Now: Developer Proposes 16-Story Apartment For Woodmont Triangle
- 8-26-14 WTOP 103.5 FM: New road alleviates major Va. commuting headache
- 8-25-14 Bethesda Now: Bethesdas Woodmont Avenue Could Remain Closed Until 2015
- 8-24-14 Cecil Whig: Senior APG commander: Base has 'a bright future'
- 8-24-14 New York Post: Inside the war at home for military wives
- 8-22-14 Fort Detrick Standard: Fort Detrick RAB Update
- 8-22-14 Bethesda Now: Purple Line Advisory Group To Take Break, Neighborhood Working Groups Next
- 8-22-14 Washington Post: Turning 50: The Capital Beltway then and now the good, the bad and the traffic jams
- 8-22-14 Washington Business Journal: General Dynamics warns of layoffs in Rockville, with end of military propaganda program
- 8-22-14 Baltimore Sun: Harford County's rise of the bicycle -- What's making more residents take to two wheels
- 8-22-14 BayNet.com: Economist says St. Mary's should strongly consider its economic future
- 8-21-14 Naval Support Activity Bethesda Journal: Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Marks Opening of Sanctuary Hall
- 8-20-14 Bethesda Magazine: Suburban Hospital to Break Ground on $230 Million Expansion in October -- Project will add an addition and new parking lot to the hospital
- 8-20-14 Gazette.Net: Silver Spring Transit Center could get bicycle parking station -- Officials say it would address increasing demand
- 8-20-14 Technical.ly Baltimore.com: Baltimore tech jobs grew 10 percent over past 2 years: report -- Baltimore saw a 10 percent increase in high-tech jobs between 2011 and 2013, outpacing both Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
- 8-19-14 Baltimore Sun: Maryland sees one of nation's largest job declines in July
- 8-19-14 Federal News Radio 1500 AM: Some lawmakers growing more receptive to BRAC
- 8-18-14 Bethesda Now: Trail Underpass In Chevy Chase Creates Brief Controversy
- 8-18-14 Baltimore Sun: Aberdeen Proving Ground team completes destruction of Syrian chemical weapons -- Mission leaders say first-ever shipboard destruction could serve as a model
- 8-18-14 FOX News: US military medicine: Military doctors are on front lines keeping Americans safe
- 8-15-14 BayNet.com: Bohanan reacts to criticism on wind turbine issue -- Commentary by John Bohanan, Delegate, District 29-B, St. Marys County
- 8-14-14 Naval Support Activity Bethesda Journal: Bethesda Notebook -- Gates 4 & 5 Changes for Inbound, Outbound Traffic
- 8-14-14 Bethesda Now: Planning Director: Affordable Housing, Better Public Spaces Key For Downtown Bethesda
- 8-13-14 WUSA9 TV: (VIDEO REPORT) Montgomery County eyes Bus Rapid Transit as gridlock reducer
- 8-13-14 Frederick News-Post: Army ambassadors connect with Frederick community
- 8-13-14 WJZ/CHS13 TV: Fort Detrick Lab To Study Ebola Treatment
- 8-12-14 U.S. Department of Defense: Defense Health Agency Makes Quick Progress, Official Says
- 8-12-14 WTOP 103.5 FM: Area counties among the nation's most desirable
- 8-9-14 WFMD 930 AM (Frederick): Kemp Lane Residents Still Receiving Bottled Water From Fort Detrick
- 8-8-14 Bethesda Now: Local Leaders To Start Bethesda-Chevy Chase Military Discount Program
- 8-8-14 Bethesda Now: County Negotiating With Apex Building Owners On Bethesda Purple Line Plan
- 8-8-14 Gazette.Net: New White Oak plan isnt balanced, civic leaders say -- Others support plan that County Council approved
- 8-8-14 Baltimore Sun: Editorial -- Aberdeen Proving Ground needs to be able to stand on its merits
- 8-8-14 Baltimore Sun: Years after Fort Ritchie opened for redevelopment, base remains shuttered
- 8-7-14 Bethesda Magazine: Berliner Requests Sidewalk Closure Information -- Councilmember says long-term sidewalk closures, particularly in Bethesda, create inconveniences and sometimes hardships for businesses, pedestrians and bicyclists
- 8-7-14 Association of Defense Communities: Air Force Establishes Provisional Installation Support Center at JB Andrews
- 8-6-14 Gazette.Net: Bethesda Metro escalator work will likely continue into 2017 -- WMATA replacing five 30-year-old escalators at the station
- 8-6-14 Gazette.Net: Ireland Trail comment period extended
- 8-6-14 Gazette.Net: Woodmont Avenue expected to reopen this month -- Downtown Bethesda street has been closed during development project
- 8-6-14 Gazette.Net: Olney frustrated over bus rapid transit project -- Many oppose project, and how its being handled
- 8-6-14 WRC/NBC4 TV: (VIDEO REPORT) NIH Scientists Closer Than Ever to Ebola Vaccine
- 8-6-14 Defense One: DOD Could Save Millions in Health Care Costs If Congress Would Let It\
- 8-6-14 U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC): Senator Mikulski opens doors to new ECBC facility -- State-of-the-art laboratory will safely advance defense research for emerging chemical threats
- 8-6-14 Philanthropy Today: Questions Raised on Troop Charitys Appeals, Political Ties
- 8-6-14 Washington Business Journal: Lines continue to blur between commercial and defense businesses
- 8-5-14 BayNet.com: Area's unmanned economic future takes fligh
- 8-5-14 WRC/NBC4 TV: Union Official: Police Shortage at D.C.-Area Naval Facilities
- 8-5-14 Gazette.net: Montgomery County staff has until December to negotiate transit center right of way -- Nonprofit still on verge of losing space at Silver Spring library
- 8-5-14 Bethesda Now: More Development Proposed For Woodmont Triangle
- 8-5-14 Baltimore Sun: Harford residents urged to get informed about potential job cuts at Aberdeen Proving Ground -- More than 250 attend Community Call to Action forum Monday evening
- 8-4-14 Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA): State Highway Administration Opens Eastern Leg of Cedar Lane in Bethesda While the road is now open to vehicular traffic, the 1000-foot section of Cedar Lane near MD 355 is still an active work zone. Continuing construction activity may require sidewalk closures on this section of Cedar Lane through late 2014. Sidewalk users may be directed to safe crossings within the work zone via orange construction signs cones, barrels, fencing.
- 8-4-14 Washington Post: Capital Business -- Pottery Barn, Passon Fish and penthouses move Bethesda Row a step closer to Aspen
- 8-4-14 Washington Post: Capital Business -- For perspective on FBI race, look to other federal properties
- 8-4-14 Washington Post: Capital Business -- Why we need 8-car trains on Metro
- 8-4-14 Bethesda Now: Lukes Wings Hopes To Connect Bethesda Community To Wounded Warriors
- 8-4-14 U.S. Department of Defense: Army Institute Responds to Growing Ebola Outbreak in West Africa
- 8-4-14 NextGov: Getting on Military Bases Is About to Involve FBI Background Checks
- 8-3-14 Washington Post: Residents want Purple Line bids to focus on limiting rail impacts on neighborhoods
- 8-1-14 Gazette.Net: MTA hands over Purple Line ridership data -- Chevy Chase examining information provided
- 8-1-14 Baltimore Sun: Community meetings planned on future of Aberdeen, Darlington libraries
- 8-1-14 Federal News Radio: Panel: 2014 QDR reveals 'growing gap' between DoD mission, available resources
- 8-1-14 Frederick News-Post: U.S. attorney requests dismissal of developer's case against Fort Detrick
- 8-1-14 U.S. Department of Defense: DoD Announces Readiness, Environmental Protection Awards -- NAS Patuxent River is working with the Chesapeake Conservancy, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, USDA, NRCS, Maryland, Delaware, and the Conservation Fund to protect a corridor along the Nanticoke River under the Atlantic Test Range airspace.
- 8-1-14 Army Times: U.S. Family Health Plan too costly, watchdog report says
- 8-1-14 Bethesda Now: Bethesda’s Woodmont Avenue To Reopen In 2 Weeks
- 8-1-14 Bethesda Now: Momentum Builds For Fresh Look At MoCo Bikeways
- 8-1-14 Washington Post (Associated Press): Forest Glen Annex / Ireland Trail: Army extends comment period in Md. trail dispute -- The Army Corps of Engineers is giving people more time to comment on a disputed plan to fence off part of a popular Silver Spring running trail near an old Army landfill. Officials said Friday they will accept comments through Sept. 11 regarding the Ireland Trail near the Forest Glen Annex. The previous deadline was Aug. 11.
- 8-1-14 Washington Post: Sen. Barbara Mikulski takes action to delay proposed wind farm on Eastern Shore -- A proposed wind farm on Maryland’s Eastern Shore again faces the threat of a potentially project-killing delay, amid worries that the whirling turbines could threaten a sensitive radar system at the nearby Patuxent Naval Air Station.
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