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March, 2015 News 

• 3-31-15 Gazette.Net:  Official hopeful that new budget will ease Bethesda parking district woes -- Leggett proposes change to help struggling garages in downtown Bethesda
• 3-31-15 San Antonio Express-News:  Army force reductions to 'cut straight into into muscle and bone’
• 3-31-15 Military.com:  Demand Down for Soldiers Needing Joint Base Lewis-McChord's (JBLM) Warrior Transition Battalion
• 3-31-15 Washington Post:  About those orange barrels near NIH and Walter Reed in Bethesda -- As the spring road work season begins, commuters along Rockville Pike in Bethesda are noticing many more orange barrels in the vicinity of the National Institutes of Health and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. This is yet another of the efforts, spanning many years, to address congested problems created by the federal Base Realignment and Closure program.
• 3-31-15 Bethesda Now:  Westbard Developer Says Traffic Study Proves Congestion Won’t Get Much Worse
• 3-31-15 Frederick News-Post:  New Fort Detrick gate to open April 10
• 3-30-15 Gazette.Net:  Federal officials say no local jobs are headed for Utah -- Van Hollen praises decision to keep positions in Montgomery County
  • 3-27-15 Gazette.Net:  Federal jobs in Montgomery County could be heading to Utah -- Congressman: Health and Human Services plan would hurt region
  • 3-26-15 Bethesda Now:  (SCROLL DOWN)  Van Hollen Unhappy About HHS Relocation Plan
• 3-30-15 Washington Post:  Suburbs such as Montgomery County rethink transit to court millennials
• 3-28-15 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Montgomery Co. transportation director: 'We're not pro-car' -- At the first annual Greenfest in Silver Spring, Montgomery County’s top transportation leader wanted to dispel the notion that his agency is pro-car, anti-transit and anti-pedestrian
• 3-27-15 Bethesda Magazine:  Department of Liquor Control (DLC) Management, Controls Criticized at Latest Liquor Control Committee Meeting -- Already the county executive’s office has begun to address the problems. County Executive Ike Leggett has assigned Edgar Gonzalez, a longtime traffic engineer with the county, to examine and address problems at the DLC. Gonzalez said Friday that he officially starts at the DLC on Monday and described the problems as “manageable.” Council member Hans Riemer, the chair of the committee, described Gonzalez as a “legendary” traffic engineer.
• 3-27-15 Washington Post:  Metroway in Northern Virginia will get more dedicated bus lanes this summer
• 3-27-15 Southern Maryland News:  St. Mary’s County population hits 110,000: St. Mary’s fifth-fastest growing in state since 2010 -- St. Mary’s County Commissioner Tom Jarboe (R) said of the new population figures, “It definitely appears that our growth rate has slowed over the last few years. I think that is due to no BRAC movement for sometime and no Navy growth. The Navy, and DoD as a whole, remains in a contraction status due to sequestration, further emphasizing our need to diversify our local economy.”
• 3-26-15 Gazette.Net:  Work begins on Old Georgetown Road in Bethesda -- Widening, realignment project near NIH to run about 17 months
  • 3-16-15 SHA Public Notice: Preliminary Project Activity for MD 187/West Cedar Lane/Oakmont Avenue Intersection Begins 3/16/15
• 3-26-15 Bethesda Now:  Pike & Rose Wins National Planning Award
• 3-26-15 Washington Business Journal:  Wegmans hasn't given up on Walter Reed and Tysons as it readies Alexandria store
• 3-26-15 United States Army:  Sequestration would force involuntary separation of combat vets
• 3-26-15 Bethesda Now:  White Flint Boosters Hope To Get Marriott’s Attention
• 3-26-15 Bethesda Now:  MoCo’s Population Grew By 10,000 Last Year
• 3-26-15 American Society of Military Comptrollers:  OMB issues strategy to reduce federal real estate footprint
  • 3-25-15 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  OMB targets further federal office space reductions
• 3-25-15 New York Times:  Veterans Hurt by Chemical Weapons in Iraq Get Apology
• 3-25-15 Military Times:  Top military doctors: Our health system works
  • 3-25-15 U.S. Department of Defense:  Surgeons General: Sequestration Could Have Lasting Impact
  • 3-25-15 Military Times:  Proposal to privatize Tricare splits advocacy groups
  • 3-25-15 Military.com:  Veterans' Groups Clash Over Proposed Changes to Military Benefits
• 3-25-15 Bethesda Magazine:  Metro Officials Unsure of Evacuation Time at Bethesda Station -- Safety officials could not tell members of the Montgomery County Council how long the station would take to evacuate
• 3-25-15 Bethesda Now:  Rankings Peg Montgomery As Maryland’s Healthiest County
• 3-25-15 Gazette.Net:  Pepco wins again in fight over removing trees in Potomac -- Montgomery lawmakers’ attempt to limit utility’s authority fails
  • 3-25-15 Gazette.Net:  How Pepco decides to trim or remove trees -- New state regulations require more aggressive management
  • 3-23-15 Gazette.Net:  Maryland rules govern tree cutting -- Pepco required to follow trim cycle, notification standards
• 3-25-15 Maryland Capital Gazette:  Editorial -- Our say: Numbers show Anne Arundel County's economic diversity
• 3-24-15 Washington Business Journal:  ​So what’s going on with NIH’s Clinical Center, anyway? -- This is the same facility thrust into the spotlight for treating patients with Ebola, including Texas nurse Nina Pham
• 3-24-15 Bethesda Now:  Bradley Boulevard’s New Potential Look -- County officials on Monday showed off renderings of a new sidewalk, shared-use path and bicycle lanes that could be coming to Bradley Boulevard in Bethesda
• 3-24-15 Gazette.Net:  Rockville Pike businesses uncertain about plans for project -- As Rockville officials continue to work through the concepts that will be used to guide the overhaul of a nearly 2-mile stretch of Rockville Pike, uncertainty over how it will be implemented is causing some concerns for businesses in the area.
• 3-24-15 Baltimore Sun:  Maryland traffic fatalities hit 66-year low
• 3-24-15 ROLL CALL:  Repairing Traumatic Brain Injury -- Commentary by Amanda Bowman, member of the board of the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund
• 3-24-15 Washington Post:  How Congress is doing an end run around sequestration -- Walter Pincus national security column
• 3-22-15 Washington Post:  Capital Business -- Gov. Hogan’s first big Maryland business retention challenge: Marriott
• 3-21-15 Johns Hopkins University HUB:  Construction executive, Johns Hopkins trustee emeritus A. James Clark dies at 87--  "The Clark name is associated with many iconic places in our hometowns. We play ball at Nationals Park and Petco Field, care for wounded warriors at the Walter Reed National Military Center, travel to destinations near and far from the Central Terminal at Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport, and work for a better future at the U.S. Institute for Peace. "These are just a few examples of the lasting legacy of Jim Clark's life and work."
• 3-20-15 U.S. Department of Defense:  New Navy Gateway Inns & Suites now open at Bethesda
• 3-20-15 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Purple Line review begins, project remains in limbo
• 3-20-15 Bethesda Now:  (SCROLL DOWN)  Rockville Pike and Cedar Lane Have New Lighting
  • 3-19-15 Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA):  Update on MD 355 (Rockville Pike)/Cedar Lane Intersection Improvement Project
• 3-20-15 Bethesda Now:  Construction Activity To Pick Up This Spring At Suburban Hospital Project
• 3-20-15 Fort Detrick Standard:  Who Was the Ireland Trail at the Forest Glen Annex in Silver Spring Named After?
• 3-20-15 Washington Post:  Cyber chief: Efforts to deter attacks against the U.S. are not working -- The nation needs to increase capacity “on the offensive side” to fend off attacks, the admiral said.
• 3-19-15 Bethesda Now:  Sidewalk Closure Signs Likely Coming Soon To Bethesda
• 3-19-15 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Study: D.C. residents have one of longest workweeks in nation
• 3-19-15 Gazette.Net:  White Flint road overhaul moving ahead, slowly -- County Council OKs pushing new street and intersection layout
• 3-19-15 Bethesda Magazine:  Lord & Taylor, Lerner Enterprises Duel Over Demolition Permits for White Flint Mall -- The latest dispute between the companies involves the developer’s applications to the county for demolition permits
• 3-19-15 U.S. Department of Defense:  Mission complete: A cultural closure for Walter Reed Army Medical Center
• 3-19-15 Belvoir Eagle:  Employee Assistance Program open to all Medical Directorate civilians
• 3-18-15 Washington Post:  Dr. Gridlock column -- Maryland focused on cutting cost of Purple Line, rather than killing it
  • 3-18-15 WAMU 88.5 FM:  4 Takeaways From Talk With Maryland Transportation Secretary Pete Rahn
• 3-18-15 U.S. Department of Defense:  Infrastructure Funding Level Poses Risk, Officials Say
  • 3-17-15 United States Army:  Army leader: sequestration impacts communities but BRAC could benefit them
• 3-18-15 Bethesda Now:  Rockville Pike Lane Shift Now In Effect -- Just as a new traffic pattern goes into effect at Cedar Lane and Rockville Pike, local commuters can expect new construction to start soon at nearby West Cedar Lane and Old Georgetown Road
  • 2-18-15 SHA NOTICE ON TRAFFIC SHIFTS
  • 3-18-15 Bethesda Magazine:  Traffic Lanes Shift on Rockville Pike in Bethesda -- Workers installed traffic control measures Tuesday afternoon near National Institutes of Health and Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart
• 3-18-15 Washington Business Journal:  NIH to end leases, return thousands of employees to Bethesda campus -- The extensively detailed plan, if it plays out as envisioned, could have a profound effect on Montgomery County's commercial inventory, on traffic in the NIH campus area, on the surrounding residential neighborhoods, on research and collaboration within the scientific community, and on the development sector.
• 3-17-15 Seventh State/Maryland Politics Watch blog:  Purple Line -- Kay Says Connecticut Ave. Overpass Could Be on Chopping Block
• 3-17-15 Bethesda Now:  Bethesda Circulator, Police Body Cameras Proposed In Leggett’s Budget
• 3-17-15 Bethesda Now:  New Middle School Would Take Out Too Many Trees, Planners Say
• 3-16-15 Federal Times:  Bowen: Electronic health records migration poses next big challenge
• 3-16-15 Bethesda Magazine:  A Guide to Bethesda Area Development Projects -- Major apartment, condo and town house projects are springing up all over southern Montgomery County
• 3-13-15 Bethesda Now:  Elected Officials Ask NIH To Reconsider Parking Spaces On Bethesda Campus -- A group of elected officials this week asked the NIH "to be an even better neighbor" by reducing the amount of parking spaces on its 310-acre campus
  • 3-13-15 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Montgomery County to NIH: Be a better neighbor
  • 3-13-15 Bethesda Magazine:  Van Hollen, Montgomery County Officials Ask NIH to Rethink Parking Ratio -- Recommend that the research center use a 3-1 parking ratio for its buildings to minimize traffic impacts
• 3-13-15 Montgomery County Gpvernment:  Ride On Pilot Project Tests Turn Warning System
•  3-13-15 Washington Post:  New transportation chiefs review D.C. streetcar, Purple Line
• 3-13-15 Bethesda Now:  Who’s Talking Development In Downtown Bethesda?
• 3-13-15 Business Wire:  Fitch Rates Montgomery County, MD's $156.3MM GOs 'AAA'; Outlook Stable
• 3-13-15 Baltimore Sun:  Defense secretary: We could create separate military force to fight cyber wars
• 3-12-15 Bethesda Now:  Planners Suggest New Bicycle Lane For White Flint/Pike District
• 3-12-15 Bethesda Now:  First Look At Makeover For Block Of Bethesda Buildings | BethesdaNowA set of four buildings in Bethesda's Woodmont Triangle is in line for a major makeover.
• 3-12-15 Belvoir Eagle:  Belvoir Hospital to complete Joint Commission accreditation process -- The Joint Commission conducts accreditation surveys of hospitals throughout the U.S., and has notified Belvoir Community Hospital that it will complete its periodic survey next week.
• 3-12-15 Newark (NJ) Star-Ledger:  Johns Hopkins executive to take over as CEO at Atlantic Health System -- Brian A. Gragnolati, a senior vice president of the Community Division at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, will become the new president and chief executive officer at Atlantic Health System, one of the largest health care systems in New Jersey.
• 3-11-15 SEAPOWER Magazine:  Navy Will Elevate Philadelphia Facility to Surface Warfare Center Division -- The Naval Ship Systems Engineering Station (SSES) will be redesignated Naval Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia Division on Oct. 1.Currently, the SSES, located on the former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, is a branch of the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division in Maryland
• 3-11-15 Bethesda Now:  Topping Out At The Gateway To Downtown Bethesda
• 3-11-15 Gazette.Net:  Width of proposed Pike a concern in Rockville -- Critics say Rockville’s major artery could divide, not improve, city
• 3-11-15 Scicasts:  Polymers Designed for Protection -- As the nation's premier laboratory for land forces, The Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is currently undertaking a long-term effort to design new polymer fibres with the extreme ballistic environment in mind from the start.
• 3-11-15 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  Army to deal with budget cuts by sharing services with local communities
  • 3-10-15 United States Army:  Army installation management chiefs call for efficiencies
  • 3-9-15 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  Army close to making force structure decisions at U.S. bases
• 3-10-15 Bethesda Magazine:  White Flint Officials Grapple with Creating an Improvement District -- Creating an entity similar to the Bethesda Urban Partnership could prove difficult in the developing region
• 3-10-15 Washington Business Journal:  Montgomery County doubles down in effort to eradicate office vacancies
• 3-9-15 Arlington Now:  Can Arlington Land Marriott’s New HQ?
• 3-9-15 Baltimore Business Journal:  Red Line and Purple Line supporters plan to rally in Annapolis
• 3-9-15 WTOP 103.5 FM:  D.C. area sees fewer taking public transit
• 3-9-15 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  Obama names two nominees to fill vacant DoD posts
  •  3-4-15 Association of Defense Communities:  President Nominates Conger to Number Two Position in Comptroller’s Office
• 3-8-15 Bethesda Now:  Forum Tries To Encourage New Solutions, Dispel Myths About School Overcrowding -- Believe it or not, the surge of apartment construction in Bethesda, White Flint and other areas isn't why most local school buildings are overcapacity
  • 3-7-15 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Montgomery County residents push to keep pace with others in the region
• 3-8-15 Washington Post:  Dr. Gridlock Commentary: Killing Purple Line would be radical step -- Big highway and transit projects are always controversial, always over budget and always built.
• 3-8-15 Washington Post Magazine:  A Bethesda family’s New Year’s resolution: Eat at every restaurant downtown
• 3-8-15 Association of Defense Communities:  OEA Providing Assistance to Communities Coping with Defense Industry Cutbacks
• 3-7-15 Washington Post:  Haunted by their decisions in war: Some combat veterans are returning with moral injuries -- Commentary by Thomas Gibbons-Neff, a senior at Georgetown University, who served as a rifleman in the 1st battalion, 6th Marines in Afghanistan in 2008 and 2010
• 3-7-15 Washington Post:  Where We Live: Diverse community rises from agrarian past at Rockville’s King Farm -- The 430-acre planned community features a diverse mix of people, housing types and transit options
• 3-6-15 Washington Post:  Maryland Senate confirms Pete Rahn as transportation secretary
• 3-6-15 Bethesda Now:  Morning Notes  (SCROLL DOWN) -- Parks Gets To Work Plowing Capital Crescent Trail
• 3-6-15 Bethesda Now:  Solution Could Be Near For Bicycle Crossing Of Wisconsin Avenue
• 3-6-15 Fort Detrick Standard:  Fort Detrick Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) Update
  • 3-4-15 Frederick News-Post:  Army denies $3.8 billion in claims of harmful toxins at Fort Detrick
  • 3-3-15 WTOP 103.5 FM (Associated Press):  Army denies 106 claims that Fort Detrick caused illness
• 3-6-15 Frederick News-Post:  Road sign changes raise concerns among Frederick businesses -- The State Highway Administration is revamping its signs for tourist attractions, but some area business owners say they make it harder to pull in visitors.
• 3-5-15 Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  Joint Commission Awards Full Accreditation to the Nation’s Medical Center
• 3-5-15 Belvoir Eagle:  New gate vetting system keeping Belvoir safe
• 3-5-15 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  Army: Sequestration to cause 'domino effect' on base maintenance -- After two years of operating under sequestration level funding, the Army now faces a $3 billion maintenance backlog and 5,500 work orders, said Katherine Hammack, assistant secretary of the Army for installations, energy and environment
  • 3-4-15 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  2016 budget aims to 'arrest' deterioration in military facilities -- Nearly a quarter of the military's facilities are rated as in "poor" condition; another 7 percent are failing. Officials say their 2016 budget would begin to dig out of billions of dollars in backlogged maintenance needs
• 3-4-15 Bethesda Now:  Rockville Pike Lane Shift Now Set For Next Week, March 10 -- The Rockville Pike lane shift that's been delayed four times because of winter weather is now scheduled for Tuesday, March 10, with an inclement weather date of March 11.
  • 3-3-15 Bethesda Now:  Rockville Pike Lane Shift Delayed Yet Again Because Of Weather
• 3-4-15 Gazette.Net:  State probes Bethesda electrical fires -- Pepco says its lines are not faulty, but residents want more proof -- The state Public Service Commission has ordered hearings on electrical fires in Bethesda that some residents think could be caused by faulty underground electrical lines.
• 3-4-15 Capital Bikeshare:  Capital Bikeshare Prices to Increase May 1
• 3-4-15 U.S. Department of Defense:  Senior DoD Official Testifies on Budget, BRAC -- Forcing the Defense Department to adhere to caps from the 2011 Budget Control Act would resonate across the entire defense budget, a senior DoD official testified here yesterday before the House.
• 3-4-15 WTOP 103.5 FM:  For some workers, bosses, teleworking may be the way to go
• 3-3-15 Bethesda Now:  Private School Busing Pilot Will Cost MoCo $240,000 -- A pilot program for busing private school students using MCPS buses and drivers will cost the county $240,560 for the 2014-2015 school
• 3-3-15 Baltimore Sun:  MTA expands Camden Line MARC service to bolster university connections -- The service expansion, which starts Monday, will add additional eastbound service in the mornings and afternoons between Washington's Union Station, College Park and Baltimore's Camden Station
• 3-3-15 Military Times:  Pentagon: Another BRAC will save money -- Acknowledging congressional opposition, defense planners promise a new base closing round will work
  • 3-3-15 Association of Defense Communities:  Installation Chiefs Turn up the Heat to Make Case for BRAC
• 3-3-15 Forbes:  Commentary -- Pentagon's $11 Billion Healthcare Record System Will Be Obsolete Before It's Even Built
• 3-3-15 Baltimore City Paper:  Military retirees have it pretty good, so why does Gov. Hogan want to cut their taxes?
• 3-3-15 Washington Business Journal:  New transportation secretary for Maryland named
• 3-3-15 Gazette.Net:  Boyds Civic Association takes serious look at commuter problems -- Community votes to submit concept plan ahead of official recommendations
• 3-2-15 WMAR/ABC2 TV:  Longest-serving woman in Congress Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski to retire -- In recent years Mikulski was instrumental in bringing thousands of jobs to Maryland through the base realignment process, along with securing federal funding to train Maryland students to ultimately fill them.
• 3-2-15 Bethesda Now:  Residents Start Talking Unfunded Rapid Transit System For Rockville Pike
  • Montgomery County Rapid Transit System (RTS) Project
• 3-2-15 Bethesda Now:  Tool To Preserve Bethesda’s Small Businesses Could Become More Common
• 3-2-15 Washington Post:  Marriott CEO: We will move our headquarters -- Marriott International plans to relocate its headquarters from its sprawling Bethesda campus in coming years, chief executive Arne M. Sorenson said last week, prompting what could be a high-stakes battle for the prominent corporate nameplate among local jurisdictions
• 3-2-15 Baltimore Business Journal:  Sen. Barbara Mikulski's Baltimore legacy is 'the Road' that never was
• 3-1-15 U.S. Department of Defense:  Armed with Science -- Army Research Laboratory Releases Comprehensive Science and Technology (S&T) Plan
• 3-1-15 Bethesda Magazine:  Walk to Everything -- In these neighborhoods, residents have the best of both worlds: They live in single-family homes on quiet, leafy streets but are steps away from farmers markets, restaurants, shops and more
  
   
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