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June 2013 News

• 6-28-13 Gazette.Net:  Planning board OK’s high-rise in Bethesda -- 7900 Wisconsin Ave. will have 450 units
• 6-28-13 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Bethesda naval testing facility hosts submarine races
• 6-27-13 Montgomery County Dept. of Transportation:  Metro Update: Red Line maintenance now available for several months in advance
• 6-27-13 Association of Defense Communities:  GAO Report Explains DOD’s Authority to Close, Realign Bases outside of BRAC
• 6-27-13 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  Faulty data may be driving Pentagon's BRAC request
• 6-26-13 Washington Post:  Access to Silver Spring’s Forest Glen during toxic-chemical cleanup worries neighbors
  • 6-26-13 Washington Post:  (GRAPHIC)  Hazardous sites at the Forest Glen Annex -- Seven sites on the site of the old Forest Glen annex have been identified for cleanup by the U.S. Army after medical waste and unsafe levels of 30 chemicals were found in the soil, groundwater and stream water
• 6-26-13 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Montgomery Co. details proposed Capital Bikeshare stations
• 6-25-13 Bethesda Now:  Officials Detail Bethesda Bikeshare Stations, Changes Coming
• 6-25-13 Bethesda Now:  Elrich Thinks Parts Of BRT Will Get Built In Next 4 Years
• 6-25-13 Washington Business Journal:  Herb Miller explains Western Development's Walter Reed exit
• 6-24-13 Bethesda Now:  Controversial Apartment May Have To Wait For Redevelopment -- A County Council Committee on Monday unanimously recommended no pre-Purple Line height change for the Newdale Mews apartments in Chevy Chase.
• 6-24-13 Bethesda Now:  Bethesda ‘Most Educated’ Place In America
• 6-24-13 Washington Business Journal:  Two teams out of Walter Reed competition
• 6-24-13 Fierce Markets Network Government:  Pre-BRAC estimates of excess base capacity were flawed, GAO says
• 6-22-13 WRC/NBC4 TV:  The Top 10 Traffic Trouble Spots in the D.C. Area
• 6-22-13 Baltimore Sun:  Editorial: Baltimore County's downtown -- Our view: The latest mega-development proposal in Towson could be the tipping point that turns the county seat into a true urban community -- ....the Towson community hasn't completely warmed to Baltimore's Bethesda idea — Mr. Kamenetz joked at an event Wednesday night that he had been ordered to stop using the "B-word" — largely out of a concern that the transformation under way may turn out to be too much, too fast. The thinking is that Bethesda, with access to the Washington Metro, can handle a degree of urbanization that traffic-clogged Towson cannot. Indeed, it may soon be possible to live a car-free, urban existence in Towson, but that doesn't mean that most people who move there will choose it.
• 6-21-13 Gazette.Net:  $68 million project to ease traffic on Rockville Pike, increase pedestrian safety -- Including: pedestrian tunnel and high-speed elevators to Medical Center Metro
• 6-21-13 Gazette.Net:  Construction of intelligence campus in Bethesda underway -- New, greener buildings and walking paths
• 6-21-13 Bethesda Now:  Police Nab Drivers At Busy Wisconsin Avenue Crosswalk
• 6-21-13 United States Army:  Army medicine continues its wartime advances
• 6-21-13 Bethesda Now:  Lane Closures, Noise Coming To Connecticut Avenue
  • 6-21-13 Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA):  Resurfacing Project on MD 185 Will Impact Traffic Through Late August -- Motorists Should Expect Lane Closures on Connecticut Avenue
• 6-21-13 Montgomery County Dept. of Transportation:  Public meetings June 24, 25, & 26: Bikesharing in Montgomery County
• 6-21-13 Washington Business Journal:  Wegmans working with Roadside in Walter Reed bid
• 6-20-13 Washington Business Journal:  It will cost more to park in Bethesda
• 6-20-13 Washingtonian:  WellBeing blog -- Can Nature Heal People?  It’s a question the Green Road Project hopes to answer with the help of wounded warriors at Walter Reed
• 6-20-13 Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  Top DOD Health Official Visits Nation’s Medical Center
• 6-20-13 Bethesda Now:  Committee Lowers Chevy Chase Lake Building Height
• 6-20-13 Gazette.Net:   Bonifant Street businesses worried about Purple Line impact -- ‘We are just being forgotten about,’ storeowner says
• 6-20-13 Washington Business Journal:  What could a Wegmans at Walter Reed look like?
• 6-20-13 Maryland Capital Gazette:  Claire Louder commentary -- Rothstein's, Leib's departure won't change the mission of Team Meade
• 6-20-13 Defense News:  Doing BRAC the Right Way -- Commentary by John King. a retired Pentagon budget analyst and volunteer on the President’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform defense budget review team
• 6-19-13 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Plan would create pedestrian crossing under Md. 355
• 6-19-13 WJZ/CBS13 TV (Baltimore):  Walter Reed Ob-Gyn Elected President-Elect Of AMA
• 6-18-13 WTOP 103.5 FM:  There's a science to timing traffic lights -- What's the worst traffic light in the Washington area and why?
  • 6-18-13 WTOP 103.5 FM:  (GRAPHIC MAP)  Traffic Lights Poll -- The placemarks in this map represent all of the signaled intersections lamented in an informal WTOP poll conducted in middle May 2013
• 6-18-13 Bethesda Now:  Key To Late-Night Activity Might Be More Transportation Options
• 6-17-13 Gazette.Net:  Meeting scheduled to talk about Rockville Pike crossing -- Public also invited to give input on commuter buses
• 6-17-13 Bethesda Now:  Resident Needed To Help Solve Transportation, Pedestrian Issues
• 6-17-13 Bethesda Now:  Planners Want Better Purple Line Station, But Property Owner Seems Uninterested
• 6-17-13 Bethesda Now:  Defense Department Establishes First Brain Tissue Repository In Bethesda
• 6-17-13 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Bike lanes: A rare harmony between cyclists and drivers
• 6-16-13 Washington Post:  Dr. Gridlock -- Road-work season spreads across Maryland
  • 6-16-13 Washington Post:  Dr. Gridlock -- The Montgomery County Department of Transportation will host a meeting Tuesday to discuss the plan for a pedestrian and biker tunnel under Rockville Pike between Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the Medical Center Metro station
• 6-16-13 Washington Post:  Metadata reveals the secrets of social position, company hierarchy, terrorist cells
  • 6-16-13 Washington Post:  Tracking Edward Snowden, from a Maryland classroom to a Hong Kong hotel
  • 6-16-13 CBS News:  Officials refute NSA surveillance "hyperbole"
  • 6-15-13 ABC News (Associated Press):  Snowden's life surrounded by spycraft
• 6-16-13 Los Angeles Times:  Deployment to war doesn't figure in majority of military suicides -- Latest stats show 52% who killed themselves in 2008-11 weren't in Iraq or Afghanistan. Some experts say many recruits bring mental health issues with them
• 6-14-13 Bethesda Now:  Police Focusing Pedestrian Safety Efforts On Drivers
• 6-14-13 Gazette.Net:  Montgomery growth needs transportation upgrades -- Bus networks needed for workers to reach jobs -- Commentary by Sonny Goldreich, commercial real estate columnist
• 6-14-13 Bethesda Now:  Road Changes Could Be Coming To Chevy Chase Lake
• 6-14-13 U.S. Department of Defense:  DOD Establishes Tissue Bank to Study Brain Injuries
• 6-14-13 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  DoD maintains BRAC fight, despite opposition from Congress
• 6-13-13 Bethesda Now:  Developer Proposes Shorter Chevy Chase Lake Building
• 6-13-13 WTOP 103.5 FM:  For pedestrian safety, Montgomery County cracks down on both sides
• 6-13-13 Gazette.Net:   Chevy Chase puts brakes on plan for free senior shuttle -- Town council votes against the proposal
• 6-13-13 Gazette.Net:   State’s update of bike and pedestrian plan could change funding priorities -- State is halfway through re-evaluation process
• 6-13-13 Washington Post:  Growth in science jobs helps drive housing construction in Montgomery County
• 6-13-13 Association of Defense Communities:  Army Realignment Decision Coming Shortly, Hammack Says
• 6-13-13 Association of Defense Communities:  Installation Commanders to Consider Shared Services Agreements in Army Communities
• 6-12-13 Bethesda Now:  Bethesda Trolley Trail Extension To Include Shared Lane
• 6-12-13 Gazette.Net:  Redesigned roads, apartment buildings proposed for White Flint -- Designs for street grid taking shape
• 6-12-13 Gazette.Net:  Work begins on Upper Marlboro’s $2 billion Westphalia Town Center -- Project expected to bring about $21 million in new revenue to county
• 6-12-13 Association of Defense Communities:  Streamlining Infrastructure Would Benefit Defense Communities, ADC President Says
  • 6-12-13 Association of Defense Communities:  BRAC May Be Better than the Alternatives, Conger Tells Summit
• 6-12-13 U.S. Department of Defense:  Face of Defense: Airman Gets Unusual Gift at Dental Exam
• 6-11-13 Stars and Stripes:  Former Landstuhl commander slated for Army's top medical job in Europe -- Also selected for promotion to one-star, Col. Jeffrey B. Clark is expected to pin on his new rank July 1 and transfer command July 30 before heading off to command Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.
• 6-11-13 Federal News Radio 1500 AM (Associated Press):  New BRAC round hits dead end
  • 6-11-13 Association of Defense Communities:  White House Veto Threat over Authorization Bill Cites BRAC Request
• 6-11-13 U.S. Department of Defense:  Program Aids Mental Health Care for Transitioning Troops
• 6-11-13 Bethesda Now:  White Flint Road Network A Delicate Balance
• 6-11-13 Bethesda Now:  Latest North Bethesda Apartment Project Aimed At Millennials
• 6-11-13 Military.com:  Lawmaker Seeks to Close Spouse Hiring Loopholes
• 6-11-13 Washington Post:  Maryland seeks private sector input on Baltimore light-rail line -- A Purple Line could end up competing against a Baltimore Red Line for construction money
• 6-11-13 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Major improvements possible for U.S. 1 in Fairfax, Prince William
• 6-10-13 Bethesda-Chevy Chase Patch:  Parking Fees Going Up July 1 -- On-street metered parking will be $2 an hour in the Bethesda parking district.
• 6-10-13 Gazette.Net:  Bethesda/Chevy Chase housing market ‘hot,’ real estate agent says -- But condos taking a hit on resale
• 6-10-13 Montgomery County Dept. of Transportation:  Public Meeting June 18: MD355 Multimodal Crossing Project
• 6-10-13 Bethesda Now:  Proposed Bikeshare Locations For Bethesda
• 6-10-13 Washington Examiner:  Capital Bikeshare becoming an economic development tool
• 6-10-13 Baltimore Business Journal:  STEM jobs account for 23% of Baltimore-area workforce, Brookings says
• 6-9-13 Takoma Park Patch:  With Bikeshare Come New Bike Lanes for Montgomery County -- The county transportation department will spend $200,000 preparing roads in Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Rockville, Silver Spring and Takoma Park
• 6-9-13 Washington Post:  Proposed Montgomery zoning rules look to a more urban county
• 6-9-13 WTOP 103.5 FM:  No perfect commuting options for Ft. Belvoir
• 6-8-13 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Montgomery County aims for Bikeshare program
• 6-7-13 Gazette.Net:  Bumper to Bumper: Riders argue against cancellation of ICC bus routes -- Maryland Transit Administration could discontinue service by August
• 6-7-13 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Three ICC bus routes face the chopping block
• 6-7-13 Bethesda Now:  MoCo Wants Residents To Review Bikeshare Station Locations
• 6-7-13 Bethesda Now:  Planning Board Goes Ahead With BRT Deliberations
• 6-7-13 Washington Examiner:  Montgomery County planners talk implementation of BRT
• 6-7-13 Bethesda Now:  Bethesda’s Luxury Housing Boom Only Going To Continue
• 6-7-13 Baltimore Sun:  DHS lab seen as key to biodefense effort -- Fort Detrick facility recently tested ricin letters
• 6-7-13 Gazette.Net:  Pax River contractors also face shorter work weeks -- Companies must decide how to execute schedule changes
• 6-6-13 Bethesda Now:  County Officials Talk Pedestrian Safety Strategies
• 6-6-13 Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  NSAB Housing Office Aims to Help All Branches of Service
• 6-6-13 Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  Vehicle Decals Officially Discontinued on Navy Installations July 1
• 6-5-13 Bethesda-Chevy Chase Patch:   Berliner: Sidewalk, Bus Lanes Can Co-Exist on Green Mile -- But both projects are still a long way off from the detailed planning stage
• 6-5-13 Bethesda Now:  Test Shows Bethesda Schools Don’t Merit Development Moratorium
• 6-5-13 Bethesda-Chevy Chase Patch:  Most Montgomery County Residents Commute Within the County -- New Census Bureau data reveals how daytime populations are affected by commuters.
• 6-5-13 Marine Corps Times:  House panel votes to stop DoD from even studying BRAC
• 6-4-13 Washington Post:  Bethesda-area traffic backups likely Tuesday afternoon
• 6-4-13 Bethesda Now:  County Holding Public Meeting On Rockville Pike Tunnel
• 6-3-13 Bethesda Now:  Town Of Chevy Chase Contemplates Shuttle Bus Or Taxi Reimbursement
• 6-3-13 Gazette.Net:  Walter Reed civilian employees face furloughs from sequester cuts -- Other federal agencies private contractors report fewer grants, projects
• 6-3-13 WJLA/ABC7 TV:  Walter Reed furloughs: Sequestration mainly to blame, notice says
• 6-3-13 Washington Examiner:  MontCo officials extend public comment for rapid transit
• 6-2-13 Bethesda-Chevy Chase Patch:  With Bikeshare Come New Bike Lanes for Montgomery County -- The county transportation department will spend $200,000 preparing roads in Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Rockville, Silver Spring and Takoma Park
• 6-2-13 Frederick News-Post:  Editorial -- Detrick's hit from sequestration
• 6-2-13 Frederick News-Post:  SCORE TOPICS: Tips for small businesses to win local federal contracts -- Commentary by Christine Demas. a former director of the Fort Detrick Business Development Office and current project director of Acela Technologies, and a SCORE Frederick mentor.
• 6-2-13 Odenton-Severn Patch:   Fort Meade Outlines Changes Due to Furloughs -- This week's edition of "Meade Week" includes details on shortened hours and service cuts in various departments
  • 6-2-13 Washington Post:  Plan to shut military supermarkets shows difficulty of cutting defense spending
  • 6-2-13 Washington Post:  Small veterans group advocates for military spending cuts
• 6-1-13 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Wounded Warriors find healing from the power of music

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