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January, 2016 News 

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• 1-30-16 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Contractor announcement expected soon for Purple Line construction
• 1-29-16 Washington Post:  Learning to love life without a car -- Commentrary by a Bethesda resident
• 1-29-16 Washington Business Journal:  No more room? Little vacancy for biotechs in thriving I-270 corridor
• 1-29-16 Stars and Stripes:  Top charities give larger portion to services than Wounded Warrior Project -- What is an extra $75 million to help wounded troops and veterans? That is how much more money the Wounded Warrior Project could have spent on direct aid in 2014, if it managed its donations like other top-rated military charities.
  • 1-28-16 Stars and Stripes:  Wounded Warrior Project denies claims of waste, lavish spending -- Under fire for questionable use of donations, the Wounded Warrior Project on Wednesday denied allegations that it spends too little on injured troops while paying for resorts, parties and alcohol.
  • 1-27-16 New York Times:  Wounded Warrior Project Spends Lavishly on Itself, Insiders Say -- The charity, which raised $372 million in 2015, has embraced aggressive styles of fund-raising, marketing and management — and has spent a significant proportion on overhead.
• 1-29-15 Bethesda Magazine:  Major State-Controlled Roads Not Fully Cleared of Snow, Angering Commuters -- State Highway Administration says it’s working around-the-clock to clear all lanes
• 1-29-15 Bethesda Magazine:  Bethesda Neighborhood Group Says Sector Plan Process ‘Makes a Mockery’ of Planning Board -- The Edgemoor Citizens Association is unhappy that individual Bethesda property owners have been allowed to negotiate for more height, density in front of county’s Planning Board
• 1-29-15 Washington Post:  Maryland says yes to two MARC train stops in Laurel, but needs CSX approval to expand
• 1-29-16 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Md. man has spent tens of thousands on snow gear to clear his street
  • 1-28-16 Bethesda Magazine:  Meet the Bethesda Man Who Spent $40,000 on Snow-Clearing Equipment to Help Dig Out His Neighborhood -- Richard Hoye says he hopes his and other volunteer snow-clearing efforts will help build community
• 1-29-16 Baltimore Sun/Harford Aegis:  Increased spending with declining enrollment takes center stage in Harford school budget review -- ...Harford leaders were preparing for a major influx of new families through the BRAC process.... Everything changed when the recession hit and the housing market crashed in 2007 and 2008, though. The population projections related to BRAC did not materialize, either.
• 1-29-16 Washington Business Journal:  One project at a time, Old Richmond Highway is Filling in. Here's the Latest. -- As Fort Belvoir continues to expand, the demand for housing, retail and hospitality uses farther south on Route 1 has grown too.
• 1-29-16 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  DoD bids to make military life more ‘family-friendly’
  • 1-28-16 U.S. Department of Defense:  Carter Announces 12 Weeks Paid Military Maternity Leave, Other Benefits
• 1-28-15 Bethesda Magazine:  Developer of Bethesda Apartment Building Applies for Demolition, Construction Permits -- Donohoe hopes to complete The Rugby in 2017
• 1-28-16 NSA Bethesda/Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  WRNMMC Prepares for Code White Exercise
• 1-28-16 Fort Belvoir Eagle:  Route 1 lane switches to occur this spring
• 1-27-16 Washington Post:  And now to dig out the bike lanes
• 1-27-16 Bethesda Magazine:  Local Legislators Want Developers to Provide Info When Closing Sidewalks on State Roads -- Second attempt at bill no longer includes advanced notice requirement
• 1-27-16 Fort Meade Base Guide:  Construction on Fort Meade
• 1-27-16 New York Times:  Wounded Warrior Project Spends Lavishly on Itself, Insiders Say -- The charity, which raised $372 million in 2015, has embraced aggressive styles of fund-raising, marketing and management — and has spent a significant proportion on overhead.
• 1-26-16 Bethesda Magazine:  Montgomery Parks Continues Clearing Snow From Capital Crescent Trail -- In second year of plowing the trail, Parks staff faces significant test
• 1-25-16 Bethesda Magazine:  As Snow Blanketed Bethesda, Nurses and Doctors Stuck It Out at Suburban Hospital -- More than 250 staff members slept at the hospital over the weekend
• 1-25-16 Maryland Capital Gazette:  New report: County struggles with transportation, housing -- Anne Arundel County's economy has steadily improved since the peak of the recession, but many of its residents still face persistent problems, according to a new report.
• 1-23-16 Washington Post:  A protest over trees is the latest example of this high school’s activism -- Maryland high school has tradition of speaking out, with students creating video, organizing demonstrations.
• 1-22-16 Bethesda Magazine:  Maryland’s Highest Court Sides With Montgomery County in Purple Line Fence Fight -- Court of Appeals ruled Chevy Chase resident can’t claim part of Purple Line path as ‘adverse possession’
• 1-21-16 Bethesda Magazine:  Council Member Says Westbard Plan Should Allow Less New Housing than Proposed
• 1-21-16 Baltimore Business Journal:  What's in Larry Hogan's budget plan for Baltimore and businesses?
  • 1-20-16 Southern Maryland Online:  Hogan Budget Includes $3M for Univ. of Md. at the Southern Maryland Higher Education Center (SMHEC) for FY17 -- "This research center will dramatically enhance cutting edge research and education in the region, plus harden us from the next BRAC round."
• 1-21-16 BayNet.com:  Navy, county sign agreement on encroachment -- Patuxent NAS CO Capt. Heidi Fleming and Commissioners of St. Mary's County President Randy Guy (center) sign new joint encroachment agreement.
• 1-20-16 Washington Post:  Be a smarter commuter: What you need to know for getting around the D.C. area in 2016 -- Old Georgetown Road intersection
• 1-20-16 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Pedestrian deaths on the rise in D.C. region
  • 1-19-16 Bethesda Magazine:  Montgomery County to Devise ‘Vision Zero’ Plan Aimed at Preventing Traffic-Related Deaths -- Family members of Bethesda bicyclist killed in August spoke Tuesday of importance of new initiative
• 1-20-16 Washington Post: Report: Maryland has ‘frontrunner’ for Purple Line contract
  • 1-15-16 Bethesda Magazine:  State Continues to Evaluate Purple Line Proposals -- A chosen bid is expected to be announced in February
  • 1-13-16 Washington Post:  Maryland scheduled to notify winning Purple Line bidder Friday -- State transit officials say they'll publicly announce winner in February.
• 1-19-16 Montgomery Community Media:  Planning Board Announces Rock Spring Master Plan Meeting
• 1-19-16 Bethesda Magazine:  Planning Board to Review 14-Classroom Addition Project At Kensington-Parkwood Elementary -- School system hopes to start construction on project at overcrowded school this year
• 1-18-16 Bethesda Magazine:  Capital Bikeshare Station Coming to Medical Center Metro in Bethesda -- Station will be the second installed in the area this month
• 1-18-16 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  Probe cites ‘culture of complacency’ at Army Anthrax lab -- An Army investigation found no single culprit for live Anthrax shipments that mistakenly traveled the globe, but a "culture of complacency" pervaded the lab
  • 1-15-16 Frederick News-Post:  Fort Detrick lab needs tighter oversight, Army investigator finds -- An Army investigator is recommending more oversight for the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases after reviewing a Utah military lab's inadvertent shipment of live anthrax last year.
• 1-17-16 ValueWalk Financial News:  How Naval Shipyards Are Charting a New Commercial Course
• 1-16-16 Frederick News-Post:  Fort Detrick Alliance brings in new executive director
• 1-15-16 Bethesda Magazine:  Leggett Recommends Smaller Capital Budget With Room for More Spending on White Oak, Purple Line -- County executive’s recommended six-year capital budget also comes in short of amount requested by MCPS
  • 1-15-16 Montgomery County Government:  Leggett Announces Six-Year Capital Construction Budget; Focus on Education, Job & Business Creation, Affordable Housing, Transit, Road Maintenance
• 1-15-16 U.S. Department of Defense:  Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Scientist Honored as DoD’s ‘Laboratory Scientist of the Quarter'
• 1-15-16 United States Army:  Malicious coders will lose anonymity as identity-finding research matures -- Research gives clues to how signature style helps identify malware.
• 1-15-16 Stars and Stripes:  Lawmakers may overhaul Tricare piece by piece
• 1-14-16 Bethesda Magazine:  In Reversal, National Institutes of Health Decides to Cap Number of Parking Spots on Bethesda Campus -- After outcry from local elected officials, federal agency says it won’t add more parking spots despite addition of up to 3,000 employees
• 1-14-16 Montgomery County Dept. of Transportation:  MCDOT Installs “Bikefixtations” along Bethesda Trolley Trail
• 1-14-16 Washington Post:  Why bike lanes make people mad -- In Chicago and Portland, cycling infrastructure 'mirrors' gentrification.
• 1-14-16 Bethesda Magazine:  Berliner Wants to Improve Metro, Economic Development as New Chairman of Council of Governments
• 1-14-16 Washington Post:  For millennials, commuting around D.C. means choosing ‘the lesser of their evils’ — and that’s driving -- Here's how Millennials described Greater Washington area traffic: horrendous, awful, horrific, miserable, nightmare.
  • 1-13-16 Washington Business Journal:  Most millennials drive to work alone, hate D.C. traffic
• 1-14-16 Washington Business Journal:  Management team buys Clark Construction Group nearly a year after the death of Alfred James Clark, the firm's founder
• 1-13-16 Bethesda Magazine:  County Planning Separated Bike Lanes for Silver Spring -- Separated lanes on both sides of Spring and Cedar streets would provide connections to planned Silver Spring Green Trail and Capital Crescent Trail
• 1-13-16 Association of Defense Communities:  President Withdraws Nominee for DOD Energy, Installations Post
• 1-12-16 Montgomery County Dept. of Transportation:  New Bikeshare Station Installed Today in the Chevy Chase Lake Neighborhood
• 1-12-16 Frederick News-Post:  Fort Detrick enacts drone restrictions for post -- Drone use is prohibited at Fort Detrick’s Forest Glen Annex in Silver Spring. That property falls within the drone no-fly zone for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, which covers a 30-mile radius from the airport.
• 1-12-16 Washington Post:  Where We Live -- North Bethesda development offers New York-style penthouses — and prices
• 1-11-16 WRC/NBC4 TV:  Much-Anticipated I-395 HOV Ramp Opens in Alexandria -- Drivers are hoping a HOV ramp on I-395 in Alexandria, Virginia will shave time off their commutes.
• 1-11-16 Washington Business Journal:  LCOR lands $100M in financing for huge Crystal City apartment project -- It will replace the “Paperclip building,” a 230,000-square-foot, nearly 50-year-old office property that LCOR acquired from Lerner Enterprises in late 2012 for $39 million. The Lerner building was left vacant by the Base Realignment and Closure actions.
• 1-11-16 WOAI 1200 AM (San Antonio):  As Military Shrinks, San Antonio Hopes to Retain Medical Personnel
• 1-10-16 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Kensington residents concerned over asbestos warning sign at middle school site
• 1-8-16 NSA-Bethesda/Walter Reed NMMC Base Guide:  Walter Reed National Military Medical Center: Where our nation heals its heroes!
  • 1-1-16 Naval Support Activity Bethesda/WRNMMC:  2016 Base Guide
  • 1-1-16 Naval Support Activity Bethesda/WRNMMC:  Welcome Aboard Naval Support Activity Bethesda (NSAB)! -- Serving as host to more than 40 tenant commands and activities on this installation, our primary mission is to create an environment that enables patients to heal, staff to thrive, and guests to feel at home.
  • 1-8-16 NSA-Bethesda/Walter Reed NMMC Base Guide:  Wounded Warrior Care  
  • 1-8-16 NSA-Bethesda/Walter Reed NMMC Base Guide:  Parking and Commuter Information
• 1-8-16 Fort Detrick Standard:  #FlashbackFriday Forest Glen: Always a Haven for Education and Rejuvenation
• 1-8-16 The Daily Beast:  Invisible Wounds -- Veterans Let Slip the Masks of War: Can This Art Therapy Ease PTSD? -- How papier-mâché masks are helping Iraq and Afghanistan veterans heal.
• 1-8-16 Bethesda Magazine:  Developer Plans Mid-Rise Residential Project Along Arlington Road In Bethesda -- ZOM Mid-Atlantic has assembled six of the properties at Arlington Road and Moorland Lane
• 1-8-16 Bethesda Magazine:  New Crosswalk Coming to Connecticut Avenue in Chevy Chase -- State set to start installing pedestrian-activated warning signal and crosswalk next week
• 1-8-16 Virginia Department of Transportation:  I-395 HOV Ramp at Seminary Road to Open Early Next Week -- As early as next Tuesday, Jan. 12, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) plans to open a new ramp linking the I-395 High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes to Seminary Road in Alexandria, providing a direct connection for HOV drivers heading to and from the Mark Center and Seminary Road.
• 1-7-16 NSA-Bethesda/Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  2015 Year in Review -- New construction, partnerships and continued integration led the way in 2015 for the “flagship of military medicine” – Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
• 1-7-16 NSA-Bethesda/Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  Best Transplant Outcomes in Region at WRNMMC
• 1-6-16 Washington Post:  Residents along path of proposed Purple Line told to move fences, sheds
• 1-6-16 Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR):  Walter Reed Army Institute of Research begins phase 2 clinical trial of Ebola vaccine -- WRAIR clinical trial will evaluate Ebola vaccine regimens in healthy and HIV-infected study volunteers
• 1-6-16 Military Times:  GAO: DoD prescription monitoring programs need improvement
• 1-5-16 New York Times:  At War: Combat Amputees, and Their Therapists, Find Roads to Happiness
• 1-4-16 Association of Defense Communities:  Addressing Excess Capacity Would Help Army’s Dollars Go Further, Halverson Says
• 1-1-16 Naval Support Activity Bethesda/WRNMMC:  2016 Base Guide
  • 1-1-16 Naval Support Activity Bethesda/WRNMMC:  Welcome Aboard Naval Support Activity Bethesda (NSAB)! -- Serving as host to more than 40 tenant commands and activities on this installation, our primary mission is to create an environment that enables patients to heal, staff to thrive, and guests to feel at home.
     
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