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June, 2016 News
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- 6-30-16 Bethesda Magazine: After Fatal Collisions, State Will Conduct Safety Review of Two Bethesda Roads -- State transportation secretary said studies are in response to “Day of Action” held in November
- 6-29-16 The Georgetown Dish: Waterfront Eyed for Bike Upgrades -- The project aims to connect the Capital Crescent Trail west of the Georgetown Waterfront Park with the Rock Creek Trail to the east
- 6-28-16 Bethesda Magazine: Planning Department Paints a Pathway to Help Pedestrians in Silver Spring -- Planners used 50 gallons of paint for crosswalk and path through busy parking lot
- 6-28-16 Association of Defense Communities: Air Force to Grade Installations on Military Value
- 6-27-16 WTOP 103.5 FM: Study: Maryland interstates among country's most congested
- 6-27-16 Frederick News-Post: State BRAC group concerned about future defense budget cuts
- 6-27-16 Association of Defense Communities: Base Closures Needed to Generate True Savings, Army Officials Say
- 6-24-16 Smithsonian Magazine: Museum Director Calls for Increased Funding for Scientific Collections to Save Lives -- Infectious disease researchers should be using museum collections to fight newly discovered pathogens
- 6-24-16 WTOP 103.5 FM: Official: Montgomery Co. workers should telework when Metro track work strikes
- 6-24-16 Bethesda Magazine: Report Says Converting Empty Local Office Buildings Not Viable -- Planning Department asked consultants to gauge reuse potential for struggling Rock Spring, Executive Boulevard properties
- 6-23-16 NSA Bethesda/Walter Reed NMMC Journal: Naval Support Activity Bethesda Parking Ratio, Governing Policies Explained
- 6-23-16 NSA Bethesda/Walter Reed NMMC Journal: ‘Invisible Wounds of War’ Now Visible
- 6-23-16 Fort Belvoir Eagle: Army Col. Wieman assumes directorship of Fort Belvoir Community Hospital
- 6-23-16 Bethesda Magazine: County’s Shuttle Service During Metro’s Local SafeTrack Work To Cost as Much as $1 Million -- Free Ride On buses will run during work in August and October
- 6-23-16 Chevy Chase Village: The new pedestrian crosswalk and flashing warning beacons are now active on Connecticut Avenue at West Lenox Street.
- 6-23-16 Bethesda Magazine: Bethesda’s Apex Building Must Be Demolished by Spring 2017 -- Owner says existing Regal cinemas will likely relocate within redeveloped property
- 6-22-16 Washington Business Journal: Two counties, 1,500 units: What Arlington and Fairfax approved over a four-day span
- 6-22-16 United States Army: Massive Detrick solar array only fraction of Army's renewable energy capacity
- 6-22-16 WIRED.com: Inside the U.S. Army Lab Racing to Create a Zika Vaccine
- 6-22-16 WTOP 103.5 FM: Montgomery Co. taxes ranked 3rd-highest in region for most incomes
- 6-21-16 Bethesda Magazine: Sales To Begin at First Major Chevy Chase Lake Redevelopment Project -- The Brownstones at Chevy Chase Lake to be offered starting at $1.475 million
- 6-21-16 Washington Post: Military retirees have a revolving door to civilian Pentagon jobs. The Senate voted to shut it.
- 6-20-16 Bethesda Magazine: State, Purple Line Builders Sign Financing Agreements -- The private team tasked with building and operating the light-rail line has lined up more than $1.3 billion for the project
- 6-19-16 Washington Post: White Oak deal stirs hopes and doubts for eastern Montgomery
- 6-19-16 National Geographic: Book Talk -- War Is Hell. Mary Roach Met the Folks Who Make It Less So -- These "white hat military scientists" try to keep soldiers alive and comfortable.
- 6-17-19 U.S. Department of Defense: Father’s Day Has Added Meaning for Vets with PTSD
- 6-17-16 Washington Business Journal: New grocery store in the works for Chevy Chase
- 6-17-16 Bethesda Magazine: 6 Great Hikes Near Bethesda and Beyond
- 6-17-16 Association of Defense Communities: BRAC Vote in House Gains Moderate Support
- 6-17-16 Joint Base Andrews Gazette: Amputee Warrior Softball Classic battles for life-saving funds
- 6-16-16 U.S. Department of Defense: Athletes Condition Minds, Bodies for 2016 DoD Warrior Games
- 6-16-16 Montgomery County Dept. of Parks: Planning Board Authorizes Exchange of Land with Montgomery County, Maryland as Mitigation for the Platt Ridge Drive Extended Project
- 6-16-16 Montgomery County Dept. of Parks: Planning Board Authorizes Transfer of Land at the Intersections of 1) MD Rte. 355 (Wisconsin Avenue) and Cedar Lane and 2) MD Rte. 185 (Connecticut Avenue) and Jones Bridge Road to the Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) in consideration for SHA Designing, Permitting and Constructing, at no cost to the Commission, the Sligo Creek Trail Bridge downstream of MD Rte. 320 (Piney Branch Road) in Silver Spring
- 6-16-16 NSA Bethesda/Walter Reed NMMC Journal: National Museum of Health and Medicine Becomes Unique Classroom for USU Nursing Students
- 6-16-16 Bethesda Magazine: Judge Considers Possibility of Delaying Purple Line 6 Months at Lawsuit Hearing -- Maryland Transit Administration lawyer says delay could ‘allow investors to pull out’
- 6-15-16 Montgomery County Dept. of Transportation: SHA to Begin Bethesda Trolley Trail Improvement Project
- 6-15-16 Bethesda Magazine: Feds Announce $875 Million Loan for Purple Line Construction -- Loan will come in addition to expected $900 million federal contribution for 16-mile light-rail line
- 6-15-16 Fort Meade Soundoff: Combat-related PTSD can be treated
- 6-15-16 Bethesda Magazine: Tech Research Firm Moving to Downtown Bethesda With $300,000 in Government Grants -- RainKing Software is set to move from Rock Spring office park to 7700 Old Georgetown Road
- 6-15-16 Bethesda Magazine: New Neighborhood Rises Near Shady Grove Metro Station -- First residents have moved into Westside and construction continues at Rockville site once home to county government warehouses
- 6-15-16 Smithsonian: How the Lowly Mosquito Helped America Win Independence -- The blood-sucking insect has played a leading role in the rise and fall of empires throughout history
- 6-14-16 U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski: Mikulski Announces Senate-Passed NDAA Bill Includes her Bipartisan Amendment to Protect Commissary Benefit -- Maryland is home to seven military commissaries at the following installations: Aberdeen Proving Ground, Joint Base Andrews, Forest Glen, Fort Detrick, Fort Meade, Patuxent River Naval Air Station and Naval Support Activity Annapolis.
- 6-14-16 Montgomery County Dept. of Transportation: MCDOT Completes Chapman Avenue Extension; Project Designed to Relieve Congestion and Promote Safety in White Flint Area
- 6-14-16 Bethesda Magazine: County Council Appoints Transportation Veteran to Planning Board -- Gerald Cichy’s priority is development that fits in with existing neighborhoods
- 6-14-16 Bethesda Magazine: Bethesda Chamber Marks 90th Anniversary
- 6-14-16 THE HILL: Stop denying wounded warriors the opportunity to start a family -- Commentary by Lauren Jaye, an educator who advocates on behalf of wounded warriors and their families
- 6-13-16 Washington Post: A regional tax for Metro? Goal is to make pitch in Richmond, Annapolis in 2018
- 6-13-16 U.S. Dept. of Defense: Walter Reed Announces Pilot Program as Part of Organ Summit
- 6-13-16 Bethesda Magazine: Cost of Rockville Pike Tunnel, Metro Elevators Project Increasing by $36 Million -- Montgomery County says federal government still funding delayed BRAC project
- 6-13-16 Bethesda Magazine: Montgomery County Mulling $200,000 Grant to Retain Health Services Firm -- State would provide another $700,000 to help University Research Co. move to Chevy Chase
- 6-13-16 Bethesda Magazine: Construction Begins on ‘Tranquil Oasis’ Near Bustling Friendship Heights -- Western Grove Urban Park set to open early next year in Chevy Chase
- 6-13-16 Association of Defense Communities: Chemical Warfare Units to Leave Aberdeen
- 6-13-16 Association of Defense Communities: In Wake of BRAC, Crystal City Has Transformed into an Innovation District
- 6-13-16 USA TODAY: Experts worry high military suicide rates are 'new normal'
- 6-10-16 National Public Radio: How A Team Of Elite Doctors Changed The Military's Stance On Brain Trauma
- 6-10-16 Bethesda Magazine: New Renderings Show Changes to Purple Line Station at Silver Spring Transit Center -- County planners are supportive of state’s design, though questions remain about connectivity to Metro platform
- 6-10-16 New York Times Magazine: What If PTSD Is More Physical Than Psychological? -- A new study supports what a small group of military researchers has suspected for decades: that modern warfare destroys the brain.
- 6-10-16 Fort Detrick Standard: Fort Detrick Prepares for Zika Virus -- At Fort Detrick, which includes the Forest Glen Annex and the Glen Haven Housing area, a multi-disciplinary team of pest control, environmental and public health professionals has been established to protect Soldiers, families, retirees and visitors, as well as the civilian and contract work force
- 6-9-16 Engineering News-Record: Design-Build Evolves as a Tool in Highway and Bridge Projects -- No longer a novelty, the project-delivery method is spreading as transportation agencies look for best practices
- 6-9-16 WTOP 103.5 FM: Minor hiccup in Purple Line funding schedule will not stop project
- 6-9-16 United States Army: Army researcher uses gold to help identify injuries
- 6-9-16 Association of Defense Communities: Book Explores Base Redevelopment around the World
- 6-8-16 Baltimore Sun.: Maryland pushes biotechnology with new centers of excellence
- 6-8-16 Washington Business Journal: Novavax plans to add up to 850 new jobs with Montgomery County expansion
- 6-8-16 Reuters: In the lab: six innovations scientists hope will end malaria
- 6-7-16 Washington Post: Paving project to start on Beltway in Bethesda area
- 6-7-16 Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: In Senate, Arkansans request new life for a child's burial -- Boozman: Get skull out of musuem
- 6-7-16 Bethesda Magazine: Nonprofit Group Builds Chevy Chase Home for Injured Soldier -- Army captain undergoing treatment at Bethesda’s Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
- 6-6-16 Bethesda Magazine: Downtown Bethesda Development Could Soon Be Tied to Park Payments, Extra Affordable Housing -- Latest Planning Board proposal provides new method for developers to grab bonus density
- 6-6-16 Washington Post: Behind the scenes of a U.S. superbug discovery that made headlines around the world
- 6-6-16 Defense News: Constituents to Congress: Let’s Get BRAC Over With -- Commentary by James Durso, former naval officer who was a military and post-conflict reconstruction adviser in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq. He was a professional staff member on the 2005 Defense Base Closure and Realignment (BRAC) Commission
- 6-6-16 Association of Defense Communities: DOD Needs a BRAC Focused on Slashing Costs, Berteau Says
- 6-3-16 Bethesda Magazine: Montgomery County to Provide Free Bus Shuttles During Metro SafeTrack Surges -- Ride On will provide the transportation around sections of Red Line under repair
- 6-3-16 Washington Post: Montgomery County, developer reach agreement on White Oak project
- 6-3-16 Washington Post: Inside the bloody, painful wounds of war, with an enthusiastic guide -- “Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War”
- 6-3-16 MD State Highway Administration: Weekend-long Capital Beltway Double Lane Closures in Montgomery County POSTPONED UNTIL WEEKEND OF JUNE 10th -- Crews Will Perform Emergency Bridge Work on Outer Loop of I-495
- 6-3-16 Alexandria (VA) Times: State completes Mark Center traffic improvements
- 6-2-16 NSA Bethesda/Walter Reed NMMC Journal: Construction Update #3 - Parking Garage -- Construction has begun on 650-space garage, to be completed March 2017
- 6-2-16 NSA Bethesda/Walter Reed NMMC Journal: Heimall Becomes WRNMMC’S Director; Lane To Lead NCR-MD
- 6-2-16 Bethesda Magazine: Equity One Plans 1.8 Million Square Feet of Development in Westbard -- Developer envisions 650 to 850 residential units with new retail center and underground parking
- 6-2-16 Association of Defense Communities: OEA Survives Lawmaker’s Attempt to Restrict Assistance Programs
- 6-1-16 Washington Post: ‘Financial close’ for Purple Line contract pushed back two weeks
- 6-1-16 Fort Meade Soundoff: Fort Meade pays tribute to retired Col. Bert Rice
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