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February, 2015 News
- 2-28-15 Washington Post: Meet the 91-year-old whose wartime PTSD makes him the perfect guide for today’s veterans -- Though the wars were different, every generation of soldiers has struggled after returning home
- 2-28-15 Baltimore Sun; Army opts for openness with new computer security tool -- Army researchers in a lab outside Washington had been working for years on a tool to help soldiers understand how hackers were targeting military computers, but late last year they did something unusual: They released their project for anyone on the Internet to poke and prod at.
- 2-27-15 Military Times: Researchers seek combat troops with lung symptoms -- Army doctors seeking to find out more about relationships between deployment and breathing problems
- 2-27-15 Washington Post: What does a five-month bid deadline delay say about a Purple Line’s future?
- 2-26-15 NSA-Bethesda Journal: NSAB Navy Gateway Inns & Suites Opens March 1, Now Taking Reservations
- 2-26-15 Bethesda Now: Metro Learns What Caused Sparks In Medical Center Metro Station
- 2-26-15 Washington Post: Hogan’s decision on light-rail Purple Line expected by mid-May. The Maryland governor will decide the transit proposal's fate before bidding continues, the state says.
- 2-26-15 WTOP 103.5 FM: Reversible toll lanes on 270? Maybe
- 2-26-15 Federal News Radio 1500 AM: NIH plans massive overhaul of Bethesda campus
- 2-26-15 Belvoir Eagle: Route 1 lanes shifting near Belvoir
- 2-26-15 Association of Defense Communities: Budget Hearing to Focus on DOD’s Declining Investment in Facilities
- 2-26-15 Military Times: Advocacy groups split over proposed Tricare reforms
- 2-25-15 U.S. Department of Defense: Army Secretary Details Sequestration Dangers
- 2-25-15 Bethesda Magazine: Capital Crescent Garage to Begin Charging Monday -- Free parking ends soon at the new Bethesda parking garage
- 2-24-15 Bethesda Now: Report: Funding A White Flint Urban District Will Be A Challenge -- It could take special property taxes or more money from the county budget to one day see a Taste of the Pike District or Friendship Heights Circulator.
- 2-24-15 Washington Business Journal: Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett on threatened transit projects, Purple Line included: 'I've got 100,000 jobs sitting here' -- There is no Plan B if the Purple Line is axed, the Montgomery County Executive said,
- 2-24-15 BayNet.com: St. Mary's County commits $1 M for 3rd higher-ed building/UM Research Center -- The $1 million would come from a $7.5 million reserve that has been sitting unused in the county’s capital budget for several years. The fund is called a BRAC Reserve and intended to assist the county in overcoming any issues relating to another round of Base Closure and Realignment (BRAC) activities by the Pentagon.
- 2-24-15 Bethesda Now: Rockville Pike Lane Shift Delayed Again to March 3, This Time Due To Cold Weather
- 2-24-15 Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA): Forecasted low temperatures that could impact proper placement of pavement markings will delay this week's planned traffic shifts along MD 355 at Cedar Lane/West Cedar Lane. The traffic shifts have been rescheduled for Tuesday, March 3 with an inclement weather date of Wednesday, March 4. Members of our project engineering team will update variable message boards along MD 355 to alert the public of the new date. SHA will re-issue an updated traffic alert concerning the change,
- 2-24-15 Bethesda Now: New Bethesda Police Station Would Take Parking Away From Busy Garage
- 2-24-15 Washington Post: Democrats grill nominee for Md. transportation chief about Purple Line
- 2-24-15 Baltimore Sun: MTA failed to verify millions in Red Line, Purple Line labor costs, audit finds
- 2-24-15 Bethesda Magazine: First New Escalator Delivered to Bethesda Metro Station -- It’s expected to begin operating this summer
- 2-24-15 Alabama Media Group: 'Dancing With the Stars' cast includes disabled Army vet Noah Galloway
- 2-23-15 Frederick News-Post: Fort Detrick to close Opossumtown Pike gate permanently
- 2-23-15 WTOP 103.5 FM: (SLIDE SHOW) Worst merge lanes in the D.C. area -- includes MD 355 north to I-495 east
- 2-23-15 Bethesda Now: Renderings For Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Addition
- 2-23-15 Baltimore Business Journal: Maryland's next DOT secretary: I'm 'a transportation guy, not a highway guy'
- 2-22-15 Washington Post: Marine sniper is saluted as more than the video scandal that defined him -- Rob Richards went from war hero to pariah after a clip showed him and others urinating on Taliban corpses
- 2-21-15 Washington Post: Maryland extends deadline for Purple Line bidders -- State transportation officials say bidders requested more time to reduce costs in $2.45-billion project
- 2-20-15 Bethesda Now: MoCo Finalizing Tax Break "BUILD" Program For New Office, Hotel Construction -- Economic development officials are finalizing an incentive program they hope will spur new office and hotel development in Montgomery County.
- 2-20-15 Washington Business Journal: Ike Leggett ponders economic development overhaul in MoCo
- 2-20-15 Maryland Policy Forum: The Future of the Purple Line -- The Maryland Public Policy Institute and partners will host a nonpartisan debate on the proposed Purple Line and its alternatives on March in Silver Spring
- 2-19-15 Bethesda Now: Why The Bethesda Metro Will Close This Weekend
- 2-19-15 Bethesda Now: Rockville Pike Lane Shift Delayed Until Next Week
- 2-18-15 Gazette.Net: ‘Green Mile’ sidewalk open in Chevy Chase
- 2-18-15 Washington Post: Md.’s new transportation chief explains ‘practical design’ approach to Purple Line
- 2-18-15 BISNOW: MoCo Goes Urban -- It ain’t your mom’s Montgomery County anymore
- 2-18-15 Brookings Institution: Can Silicon Valley and Fort Meade work out their differences?
- 2-18-15 Washington Post: Silicon Valley pays less than Bethesda. No, really.
- 2-17-15 Bethesda Now: New-Look White Flint Draws Surge Of Early Residents -- Call them the pioneers of the newly urbanized White Flint. In the first apartment building to open in the massive mixed-use development project at Pike & Rose
- 2-17-15 Bethesda Now: Bridges With Loose Concrete Found Near Bethesda
- 2-17-15 Montgomery Community Media: Sticker Shock Eliminates Burying Power Lines in the Town of Chevy Chase
- 2-17-15 Lincoln (NE) Journal Star: FDR found adoring masses — and inspiration — at Nebraska Capitol
- 2-17-15 National Geographic: Why Is the Mystery of Blast Force Brain Injury So Tough to Solve? -- Author of National Geographic's February cover story discusses the ravages of traumatic brain injury from battlefield blasts
- 2-16-15 Association of Defense Communities: New Rules to Streamline Procedures for Support Organizations to Gain Access to Installations
- 2-16-15 Frederick News-Post: Five Questions with Craig Branagan -- Craig Branagan became director of the Fort Detrick Soldier Family Assistance Center at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda in December
- 2-15-15 Washington Post: Nominee for Md. transportation secretary faces Purple Line decision -- Pete K. Rahn is known for demanding fast results and pursuing innovative financing
- 2-14-15 Washington Post: Where We Live: Ashburton in Bethesda, bisected by the Beltway --The neighborhood boasts easy access to major highways, but it also has to cope with the traffic
- 2-13-15 Bethesda Now: 3,000 More Employees Could Be Headed To Bethesda NIH Campus -- The National Institutes of Health has formally approved a master plan
- 2-13-15 Washington Post: Report: Hogan’s gas-tax relief would threaten billions in transit projects
- 2-13-15 U.S. Department of Defense: Care Coalition Supports Wounded, Ill Special Ops Troops
- 2-12-15 NSAB Journal: WRNMMC to Hold Code White (active shooter) Exercise Through February
- 2-12-15 Washington Post: Editorial: Montgomery County’s rapid transit roadblock
- 2-12-15 Bethesda Magazine: Community Uses Proposed for Chevy Chase and Kensington Park Buildings -- Options include a Spanish preschool program at North Chevy Chase Park and an after-school program for developmentally disabled youth at Ken-Gar Palisades Park
- 2-12-15 Bethesda Now: 'Metro Renters’ Outpace ‘Golden Years’ Residents In White Flint
- 2-12-15 Bethesda Now: Detour Signs Go Up For Interim Georgetown Branch Trail -- If the Purple Line is built, Capital Crescent Trail users will have to navigate Bethesda and Chevy Chase streets during construction
- 2-12-15 Office of Naval Research: Simulation technology shows navy how to take a HIT -- The Navy soon will begin using an Office of Naval Research technology to predict injuries and improve medical responses in any kind of attack on ships, officials announced today
- 2-12-15 Defense One: Lawmakers Get Lost in the Math of Reforming Military Benefits
- 2-12-15 Belvoir Eagle: Belvoir Hospital now accepts e-prescriptions from civilian docs
- 2-10-15 Bethesda Now: Funding Missing For Capital Bikeshare In White Flint, North Bethesda
- 2-10-15 Bethesda Magazine: Council Members Debate Current Ability to Eat, Drink and Be Merry in Bethesda -- Little council consensus evident on possible changes to county’s liquor control system
- 2-10-15 Washington Post: Three interesting findings from our Maryland poll -- The poll offers a wealth of data on what Marylanders think of Hogan and his agenda, including support for some cost-saving initiatives and strong opposition to his proposal to slow the growth of education spending. Here are three other key findings, on the Purple Line, vaccine requirements and the direction that residents say their state should take.
- 2-10-15 Bethesda Magazine: Bethesda Metro Station to Close Feb. 21, 22 -- A shuttle bus service will be available while trains bypass the station
- 2-10-15 Bethesda Now: MoCo Says It’s Tightening Up On Bethesda Sidewalk Closures
- 2-9-15 Bethesda Now: Rockville Pike Traffic Shift Coming Next Week
- 2-9-15 Bethesda Magazine: Planning Staff Recommends Approval of Fairmont Avenue Apartment Building -- The Lenkin Company is pitching a 16-story, 210-unit building between St. Elmo and Fairmont Avenues in Woodmont Triangle
- 2-8-15 New York Times: Editorial: The Pentagon’s Excess Space -- Lawmakers have been putting their political interests ahead of good stewardship of public money: For the past three years, officials at the Pentagon have asked Congress for permission to take stock of how many of the military’s vast network of installations across the country have become obsolete and ought to be shrunk or shuttered. The Defense Department, by far the nation’s largest and costliest bureaucracy, estimates that it could operate far more efficiently and save billions of dollars each year by shedding at least 20 percent of its real estate.
- 2-6-15 Bethesda Now: County Report Finds Drivers At Fault In Most Bicycle Collisions
- 2-6-15 U.S. Dept. of Defense "Armed with Science" blog: The Navy’s Indoor Ocean -- It's one of the largest indoor oceans in the world, making the MASK the most advanced test facility of its kind. So why does the Navy NEED an indoor ocean?
- 2-6-15 Defense One: The US Intelligence Community Is Bigger Than Ever, But Is It Worth the Cost? -- The intelligence community has grown to an enormous size and Americans have no clue what they’re paying for.
- 2-5-15 Naval Support Activity Bethesda Journal: ‘Putting the Patient at the Center of All That We Do’ Walter Reed Bethesda Leadership Rolls Out New Strategic Plan, Icon
- 2-4-15 Bethesda Now: Lane Closures Coming To Old Georgetown Road This Weekend
- 2-4-15 Bethesda Magazine: Equity One Unveils Westbard Development Plans --The Westwood Shopping Center and surrounding properties would be developed into a mixed-use Town Center
- 2-4-15 Washington Post: New I-395 lane should ease morning commute -- This new lane on the right side of the highway stretches eight-tenths of a mile from the I-395 on-ramp at Duke Street to the off-ramp at Seminary Road. This should help with traffic heading for the Mark Center at Seminary Road, one of the Northern Virginia facilities that added personnel because of the federal Base Realignment and Closing program.
- 2-4-15 Military Times: Officials: Wounded warrior units still needed --Service representatives provided an update on their specialized programs to help wounded personnel
- 2-3-15 Bethesda Now: Leggett Says Transit Authority, Property Tax Raise Still On The Table
- 2-3-15 Washington Post: Obama budget request includes $100 million for Purple Line -- State transit officials still await word from Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) about whether he'll continue light-rail project
- 2-3-15 Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA): SHA to Shift Lanes on Rockville Pike in Bethesda on or about February 17 -- Left Turn Movement from Northbound MD 355 to West Cedar Lane Will Close Through Late 2016 as Part of Traffic Shift
- 2-2-15 The Hill: Pentagon proposes new round of base closures
- 2-2-15 Bethesda Magazine: Council Membes: Commercial Property Owners Should Pay for Substantial Portion of Bus Rapid Transit -- Urge county to proceed with transit proposals after Purple Line decision
- 2-1-15 Washington Post: Leggett withdraws proposal for independent Montgomery transit authority -- The county executive’s move comes after a council staff report criticized the plan for a special taxing agency
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