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March - April 16, 2009 news

 

• 6-6-09 New York Times:  Discredited Research Study Stuns an Ex-Army Doctor's Colleagues
• 6-6-09 Washington Post:  Where We Live: At Stake, a Community's Identity -- Purple Line, Other Issues Galvanize East Silver Spring
  • 6-6-09 Washington Post:  East Silver Spring -- Geography and Demographics
• 6-5-09 Washington Business Journal:  Gerry Connolly, Jim Moran push rail extension in transportation bill
• 6-5-09 Washington Business Journal:  Maryland Biotechnology Center, MdBio ponder their changing roles
• 6-5-09 Congressional Quarterly CQ Today:  Transit Advocates Want To Use Stimulus Dollars for Operating Costs
• 6-5-09 Government Health IT:  VA and DOD move closer to single e-health record
• 6-5-09 Washington Post:  Standing Their Ground -- Montgomery Proposal Divides Preservationists, Land Owners
• 6-5-09 Fort Leavenworth (KS) Lamp:  Officials plan for Warrior Transition Unit closure
• 6-4-09 Columbia (MD) Flier:  BRAC job fair to focus on defense-related careers
• 6-4-09 USA TODAY:  Pentagon faces $2.5 billion budget shortfall
• 6-4-09 Army.com (U.S. Department of Defense News Release):  Defense Priority Placement Program Places 250,000th Employee
• 6-4-09 CNN (AOL):  Speed cameras on U.S. highways?
• 6-4-09 Congressional Quarterly CQ Today:  War Supplemental Conference Slips to Next Week
• 6-4-09 Congressional Quarterly CQ Today:  LaHood Asks Lawmakers to Offset Cost of Covering Highway Fund Shortfall
• 6-4-09 Maryland Daily Record:  Learning how to capitalize on BRAC
• 6-4-09 Red Bank (NJ) Hub:  Govt. studies financial impact of fort closure -- Study will look at cost of services to host towns
• 6-4-09 Washington Informer:  Prince George's and Montgomery County Lawmakers Adopt Bi-County Budgets
• 6-4-09 WRAMC Stripe:  South Lot parking opens to all
• 6-4-09 WRAMC Stripe:  Warriors in transiton healing closer to home
• 6-4-09 WRAMC Stripe:  Focus on customers guides colonel's course
• 6-4-09 WRAMC Stripe:  DoD launches Real Warriors campaign
• 6-4-09 NNMC Journal:  Obama visits Bethesda
• 6-4-09 NNMC Journal:  Commander's Column -- President Obama's Visit and other historical reminders
• 6-4-09 NNMC Journal:  This Week at Bethesda
• 6-4-09 NNMC Journal:  Senior enlisted hold meeting to plan integration
• 6-4-09 NNMC Journal:  Bethesda cleans, restores ‘Tower’
• 6-4-09 Columbia (MD) Flier:  BRAC job fair to focus on defense-related careers
• 6-4-09 Washington Post:  A Challenging Redeployment -- Program Prepares Military Veterans for Tough Mission in Nation's Classrooms
• 6-4-09 Baltimore Sun:  Tomback to head Harford schools
• 6-3-09 Logistics Management:  Transportation funding: Highway Trust Fund is again in need of more capital
• 6-3-09 WTOP 103.5 FM News Radio:  Speed cams rake in $15M in Montgomery
• 6-3-09 Washington Post:  Get There -- Va. Transportation Secretary Offers Gloomy Forecast
• 6-3-09 Washington Examiner:  Va. official: Transportation funding in jeopardy
• 6-3-09 Washington Examiner:  Amtrak to run daily service from Va. to D.C.
• 6-3-09 Clarksville (TN) Leaf-Chronicle:  Post sees second suicide in 2 weeks -- Expert analyzes prevention efforts in place by Army, Fort Campbell
  • 6-3-09 Clarksville (TN) Leaf-Chronicle:  Suicide prevention at Fort Campbell
  • 6-3-09 Clarksville (TN) Leaf-Chronicle:  Post to add clinical help -- Fort Campbell adding 50 positions to help reverse increase in suicides
  • 6-3-09 Clarksville (TN) Leaf-Chronicle:  Post wraps up stand down with results; some still critical
• 6-3-09 Washington Post  Rockville Intersection Called Most Congested in County
  • 6-2-09 Maryland-National Capital Park & Planning Commission (M-NCPPC):  Montgomery County 2009 Highway Mobility Report
    • 6-2-09 M-NCPPC:  Montgomery County 2009 Highway Mobility Report -- Map of the 10 Most Congested Intersections
    • 6-2-09 M-NCPPC:  Montgomery County 2009 Highway Mobility Report -- Congestion in Peak Direction (Weekday PM Peak) for 2009 Priority Analysis Corridors
• 6-3-09 Washington Post:  VA Is Testing an Advanced New Prosthetic Arm
  • 6-3-09 Washington Post:  Photo -- John Milani, right, a VA prosthetics official, and Dirk van der Merwe, a Deka engineer, applaud as VA Prosthetic and Sensory Aids Service Director Frederick Downs Jr. drinks from a water bottle using a prosthetic arm
• 6-3-09 Washington Business Journal:  Metro gets lower borrowing cost
• 6-3-09 Congressional Quarterly CQ Today:  Chairman Insists There’ll Be No Highway Law Extensions
• 6-3-09 Army Times (Associated Press):  VFW chief: Look out for struggling soldiers
• 6-3-09 Gazette.Net:  Planners: Webb Tract is best site for parks maintenance depot -- Timeline, funding hinge on Gaithersburg West master plan
• 6-3-09 Gazette.Net:  Hanson family applies to re-zone 170-acre farm -- Change would allow for future development of residential community
• 6-3-09 Gazette.Net:  Swaim-Staley tapped as acting transportation chief -- County's transit system, stimulus upgrades are priorities, she says
• 6-3-09 Gazette.Net:  County government stimulus receipts at $8.2M -- Web site offers daily updates on federal money, county projects
• 6-3-09 Gazette.Net:  Chevy Chase to hold informational, public hearings on Purple Line -- Public can weigh in on using town funds to oppose project
• 6-3-09 Gazette.Net:  New MARC locomotives are cleaner as they chug along -- Local gas prices up 55 percent since Jan. 1
• 6-3-09 Gazette.Net:  County plans transit center for White Oak -- Proposed facility seen as a way to increase safety, transportation options in growing area
• 6-2-09 Congressional Quarterly CQ Today:  Highway Funds Expected to Fall Short
• 6-2-09 Baltimore Sun:  Getting There -- New MTA "smart" card to work on D.C. metro
• 6-2-09 Asbury Park (NJ) Press:  Editorial -- More bad math from the Army
• 6-2-09 Military.com:  New GI Dads Get Administrative Leave
• 6-2-09 U.S. Department of the Army News Release:  Army identifies Military OneSource, Defense Center of Excellence Outreach Center as primary crisis intervention resources
• 6-2-09 Baltimore Business Journal:  Mikulski seeks $20M for Maryland BRAC transportation needs
• 6-2-09 Annapolis Capital:  Marylanders landing more BRAC jobs -- Local tax revenue to rise along with employment numbers
• 6-2-09 New York Times:  Obama to Name N.Y. Congressman the Army Secretary
• 6-2-09 Congressional Quarterly CQ Today:  Obama Taps GOP Rep. McHugh as Army Secretary
• 6-2-09 Washington Post:  Obama Visits With Wounded Troops
• 6-1-09 The Hill:  Lawmakers struggle to pay for new transportation bill
• 6-1-09 Washington Business Journal:  Danac gets good news from Montgomery County Planning Board
• 6-1-09 Navy Compass -- San Diego's Official Navy Newspaper (U.S. Navy News Release):  Shore Readiness Enables Maritime Strategy
• 6-1-09 Washington Post:  President Visits Naval Medical Center
• 6-1-09 Air Force Times:  Q & A with JCS chief Adm. Mike Mullen -- Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met for an hour with Military Times editors and reporters May 27 and spoke on a wide range of military issues. The following transcript has been edited slightly for clarity
• 6-1-09 Washington Post:  Maryland Wants to Switch from 'South' to 'East'
• 6-1-09 Congressional Quarterly CQ Today:  Push for More Transit Funding Could Spark Transportation Spending Battle
• 5-31-09 Washington Post:  District, Md. Hospitals Often Divert Ambulances -- Some ERs Too Crowded To Take More Patients
• 5-31-09 Washington Post:  Fishing Tournament: Event Aims to Mend Those Who've Served -- 'This Day Is Worth Living,' Veteran Says
• 5-31-09 Washington Post:  Swim Time for Disabled Patients Becomes an Uplifting Experience -- For those of you who read Page Three regularly, the usually comical contributions from Adele Levine are familiar. Humor might be her release, with a challenging job as physical therapist to amputees at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. If that alone doesn't make Adele a special person, read this
• 5-31-09 Washington Examiner:  Military families put on hold for Arlington burials
• 5-30-09 Carroll County (MD) Times:  Earmarks: Spending your tax dollars -- Lawmakers in the nation's capital are often accused of pork-barrel spending, but some of Maryland's lawmakers argue that the bacon they bring home benefits the state - and the country."People hear earmarks and think of a bridge or a building or some other type of individual project, but in many cases it's a community or national project," said Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md.
• 5-30-09 Frederick News-Post:  Army program for electronic medical records to be expanded
• 5-30-09 Annapolis Capital:  Local job loss slowed in April -- Anne Arundel County unemployment rate drops slightly to 6 percent, city falls to 5.7 percent
• 5-29-09 Washington Business Journal:  Maryland unveils 10-year plan to bolster biotech
• 5-29-09 Strategy Page:  The CIA Seeks To Hold On To Its Mojo
• 5-29-09 NextGov Technology and the Business of Government:  The Consumer's Guide to Intel Nets
• 5-29-09 Politico:  Ben Smith blog -- In which the president discovers an American intelligence agency at Five Guys
• 5-29-09 GenomeWeb BioRegion News:  Montgomery County, Md., Planning Board Rejects Denser and Scaled-Down Alternatives for Gaithersburg 'Science City'
• 5-29-09 Inside NoVA.com (DeWitt Health Care Network Public Affairs):  DeWitt offers options for prescription pick-up
• 5-29-09 Gazette.Net:  Montgomery County Business Report, 2009  (31 pp)
• 5-29-09 Gazette.Net:  Maryland jobless rate decline contrasts with U.S. trend -- Drop is not a signal of recession's end, says Perez
• 5-29-09 Gazette.Net:  Pro-growth's comeback? -- Blair Lee's My Maryland column
• 5-29-09 Gazette.Net:  Transportation secretary named
• 5-29-09 Columbia (MD) Flier:  County unemployment rate ebbs slightly in April -- Howard has second lowest rate in state at 4.8 percent
• 5-29-08 WTOP 103.5 FM News Radio:  Local highway crews watching the grass grow
• 5-28-09 WRAMC Stripe:  Senior enlisted hold first meeting to plan integration
• 5-28-09 WRAMC Stripe:  NNMC integration leader highlights efforts
• 5-28-09 WRAMC Stripe:  Integrated clinics make strides, work in unison
• 5-28-09 Andrews AFB Capital Flyer:  A word to retirees about Malcolm Grow Medical Center (MGMC) care
• 5-28-09 Senator Ben Cardin News Release:  Cardin Announces Priority Appropriations Requests for Maryland, Including Prince George's and Montgomery Counties
• 5-28-09 Howard County Times:  Lt. governor checks out Savage site -- Proposed mixed-use development could be BRAC zone
• 5-28-09 WTOP 103.5 FM News Radio:  Catoe named top public transportation manager
• 5-28-09 NNMC Journal:  General Surgery clinics integrate with success
• 5-28-09 NNMC Journal:  Did You Know? -- Mass Transit Fringe Benefit
• 5-28-09 Fort Detrick Standard:  Army chaplains ready to play an ACE for suicide prevention
• 5-28-09 Fort Detrick Standard:  Business Development Office brings local vendors together to say 'Thanks for your support!'
• 5-28-09 Fort Detrick Standard:  Army program celebrates 10 years of delivering battlefield medical info
• 5-28-09 Fort Detrick Standard:  New web page guides Tricare beneficiaries to behavioral health resources
• 5-28-09 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  New weapons available to fight military stress -- Wounded soldiers back from the battlegrounds rehabilitate at places like Bethesda Naval Hospital and Walter Reed. Now the military is taking steps to improve their care once they leave our area
• 5-28-09 Baltimore Business Journal:  Swaim-Staley named acting Md. transportation secretary
• 5-28-09 The Hill:  Democrats to launch fight on $450B highway bill
• 5-28-09 Washington Post:  County Council Set to Pick A Planner -- Nine Applicants Seek Board Post
• 5-28-09 Washington Post:  Bringing Md. and Va. Closer -- Wilson Bridge Bike and Pedestrian Path to Open Next Month
• 5-28-09 TIME:  Robert Gates: The Bureaucrat Unbound
• 5-27-09 Building Design & Construction:  Clark Construction tops out future Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Betheda, Md.
• 5-27-09 All American Patriots (Senator Barbara Mikulski News Release):  Senator Barbara Mikulski Keeps Up Fight to BRAC-Ready Maryland
• 5-27-09 U.S. Army National Guard News Release:  Wounded, ill and injured Soldiers to heal closer to home
• 5-27-09 NextGov Technology and the Business of Government:  Bio-Labs Cyber Threats Ignored?
• 5-27-09 CNN:  Army base shuts down for anti-suicide event
  • 5-27-09 CNN:  'Tell somebody,' if you're thinking of suicide, says general
• 5-27-09 ABC News:  Combat Stress Gives Military Pause -- Fort Campbell Puts Duties on Hold to Address Recent Suicides
• 5-27-09 CBS News:  Army Post Trains Soldiers To Stop Suicides -- With 11 Suicides This Year, Fort Campbell In Ky. Begins 3-Day Stand Down To Address Crisis
• 5-27-09 Washington Examiner:  Uncertainty reigns over final Dulles Rail funding
• 5-27-09 Columbia (MD) Flier:  High-end home builders face tough times
• 5-27-09 Business Wire:  Fitch Rates Harford County, Maryland's $146MM GOs 'AA+'; Outlook Stable
• 5-27-09 Gazette.Net:  Budget marks $20M for new station entrance -- Defense outlines funds for changes at Medical Center Metro
• 5-27-09 Gazette.Net:  Uniformed Services University in documentary -- Many military doctors educated at Bethesda campus
• 5-27-09 Gazette.Net:  Pay-by-phone parking program approved -- Budget includes line item for Bethesda pilot program
• 5-27-09 Gazette.Net:  Residents split on Purple Line tunnel -- Proponents say MTA report light on negatives; opponents say gap between stations would not serve local riders
• 5-27-09 Gazette.Net:  White Flint work session focuses on building height -- Development could be limited to 300 feet
• 5-27-09 Maryland Gazette (Glen Burnie):  Business Briefs: West County expo to tour growth area
• 5-26-09 Corridor Inc. (Montgomery County News Release):  Leggett hails inclusion of $20M in DOD budget request for new metro entrance at Bethesda Naval
• 5-26-09 Technology Marketing Corporation (Congressman Chris Van Hollen News Release):  Van Hollen Statement on Passage of the FY 2009 Supplemental Appropriations Bill
• 5-26-09 All American Patriots (Governor Martin O'Malley News Release):  Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley Outlines Strategic Vision for the Space Industry in Maryland
• 5-26-09 Washington Post:  Unresolved Issues Remain in MoCo's Budget Plans
• 5-26-09 Baltimore Business Journal:  Aberdeen, Howard County apply for BRAC Zone status
• 5-26-09 USA TODAY:  More U.S. airports add rail service to downtown
• 5-26-09 National Journal:  Expert Blogs: Transportation -- Do New Demographics Require New Approaches?
• 5-25-09 Washington Post:  Families Affected by Suicide Feel Sting on Memorial Day
  • 5-25-09 Washington Post:  A Life Lost, a Plan Derailed, A Fiancée Left in Limbo -- In the Army, There's No Form to Verify Love
  • 5-25-09 Washington Post:  John Kelly's Washington -- Truth and Death in a Quiet Room
  • 5-25-09 Washington Post:  Editorial: Memorial Day -- Let us not overlook those wounded in spirit
• 5-25-09 Baltimore Sun:  Blast injuries define two wars, thousands of lives -- Veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan cope with severe injuries
• 5-25-09 CBS News:  Navy SEALS And The Sign On The Door
• 5-25-09 Game Forward:  Military Brain Injury Treatment Centers Armed with Games
• 5-25-09 Plattsburgh (NY) Press Republican:  Editorial: Base closure getting costlier -- A new BRACC plan to close Fort Monmouth, N.J. and move the mission to Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, makes Plattsburgh Air Force Base seem like it was closed for free
• 5-24-09 Washington Post:  The Fight To Fit Back In -- When Craig Lewis left his teaching job to fly a helicopter in Iraq, he was risking more than just his life
• 5-24-09 Washington Post:  The Spending Trickle -- In Maryland, which launched the first U.S. road project funded by the infusion of federal money, some people have gone back to work
  • 5-22-09 Washington Post:  (Interactive Map)  Local Stimulus Projects -- Explore the District, Maryland and Virginia to see how federal stimulus dollars are being spent on transportation projects
• 5-24-09 Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal:  Veterans: Soldier's death provides hope for others -- Man's accidental overdose at Fort Knox sparks changes in Army medical treatment
• 5-24-09 Associated Press:  Soldier's hospital death leads to changes
• 5-23-09 Washington Examiner:  Montgomery coffers filling with collected debts
• 5-23-09 Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal:  Man's accidental overdose at Fort Knox sparks changes in Army medical treatment
• 5-23-09 Washington Post:  Generals Find Suicide a Frustrating Enemy -- As Numbers Continue to Climb, Top Officers Meet Monthly to Look for Answers
• 5-23-09 Baltimore Sun:  Senators disclose earmarks -- Cardin argues for set-asides to benefit such projects as bay, transit, reconstructive surgery
• 5-23-09 Richmond Times-Dispatch (Media General News Service):  Intelligence chief praises employees headed for Va.
• 5-23-09 Navy Compass (San Diego Naval Bases):  Returning Warrior Workshop Strengthens Families
• 5-22-09 Associated Press:  Iraq slaying verdict highlights combat stress
• 5-22-09 NextGov Technology and the Business of Government:  Senate directs Defense to track soldiers injured by explosions
• 5-22-09 Maryland Daily Record:  Lawyers step up when veterans have trouble fighting for their rights
• 5-22-09 All American Patriots (Senator Jim Webb News Release):  Senator Webb Requests $5 million for Military Children with Disabilities
• 5-22-09 Washington Post:  Walter Reed Consolidation -- Official Tries to Reassure Lawmakers About Cost Hikes, Timetable
• 5-22-09 Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett News Release:  Leggett Hails Inclusion of $20 Million in Defense Department Budget Request for New Metro Entrance at Bethesda Naval
  • 5-22-09 Montgomery County Department of Transportation News Release:  New Metro Entrance at Bethesda Naval Included in Federal Budget Request
• 5-22-09 St. Petersburg (FL) Times:  U.S. Rep. Bill Young defends $20 million funding of vets' trauma center
• 5-22-09 Government Executive:  LaHood thinks stimulus spending has been up to speed
• 5-22-09 Knoxville (TN) News:  From The American Legion -- "Fighting for Life" Airs This Weekend
• 5-22-09 Gazette.Net:  Commercial Real Estate: Contractors could ‘blow through' BRAC space -- Aberdeen Proving Ground a focus of Pentagon's realignment program
• 5-22-09 Gazette.Net:  State seeks to nurture biotechs -- Panel calls for greater investment in infrastructure, venture capital trust
• 5-22-09 Washington Business Journal:  Fairfax County to study rail corridor density
  • 5-22-09 Washington Business Journal:  (MAP)  Tax district for Dulles Metrorail Phase 2 expansion
• 5-21-09 Washington Examiner:  Montgomery County services mostly untouched in new budget
• 5-21-09 St. Petersburg (FL) Times:  U.S. Rep. C.W. Bill Young sees no conflict in $20 million for donor's project
• 5-21-09 WTOP 103.5 FM News Radio (Associated Press):  1 dead, 2 injured in explosion at Md. Army base
• 5-21-09 WTOP 103.5 FM News Radio (Associated Press):  Aberdeen sets training exercise next week
• 5-21-09 Gazette.Net:  Montgomery County Council passes $4.4B budget -- Spending increases by 1.2 percent; some funding restored, but some positions cut
• 5-21-09 Congressional Quarterly CQ Today:  Harkin May Seek Extra Time for NIH To Spend Stimulus Funds
• 5-21-09 Army Times:  Sleep starved -- Too little sleep could be more dangerous than you may think
• 5-21-09 Army Times:  Bill would regulate war-zone burn pits
• 5-21-09 U.S. Department of Defense News Release:  DoD Launches Program to Fight Stigma of Seeking Psychological Health Care
• 5-21-09 Military.com:  Vet Says VA Must Pay to get Message Out
• 5-21-09 NNMC Journal:  Technology brings Comfort to NNMC
• 5-21-09 NNMC Journal:  Deputy Commander for Integration's Column
• 5-21-09 NNMC Journal:  This Week at Bethesda
• 5-21-09 NNMC Journal:  Wound care clinic develops new methods
• 5-21-09 NNMC Journal:  DCI discusses integration, chain of command topics
• 5-21-09 NNMC Journal:  Did You Know? -- Mass Transit Fringe Benefits
• 5-21-09 NNMC Journal:  Emergency scenario tests Bethesda, JTF
• 5-21-09 WRAMC Stripe:  Command changes hands Hassell relieves McKenrick as WTB leader
• 5-21-09 WRAMC Stripe:  Walter Reed staff previews new hospital rooms
• 5-21-09 WRAMC Stripe:  Operation BRAVE Family builds resilience to help kids cope with injured loved ones
• 5-21-09 WRAMC Stripe:  Integration -- Integrated OB/Gyn clinics align with success
• 5-21-09 WRAMC Stripe:  Integration improving radiology department
• 5-21-09 WRAMC Stripe:  Wound care clinic develops new methods
• 5-21-09 USA TODAY:  Addition to war spending bill raises questions -- National Intrepid Center of Excellence at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda
  • 5-21-09 United Press International:  Addition to war bill raises questions
• 5-21-09 Washington Post:  Mongtomery Council Approves $4.4 Billion Budget
  • 5-21-09 Washington Post:  Montgomery County -- Budget-Balancing Moves May Push Troubles Down the Road
• 5-21-09 Washington Post (Associated Press):  House members seek $136.3 billion in road projects
• 5-20-09 Washington Examiner:  Survey: Areas with jobs, activities have smaller households
• 5-20-09 Washington Examiner:  Feds push for more telecommuting
• 5-20-09 New York Times:  Senator Rebukes Medtronic Over List of Consultants
• 5-20-09 Washington Post:  Bethesda -- Officials Aim to Improve Medical Campus Access
  • Excerpt from FY2010 DOD budget -- includes Defense Access Road (DAR) Metro Access project at NNMC for FY2011
• 5-20-09 Washington Post:  Traffic Congestion Dips As Economy Plunges -- Survey Finds Rush-Hour Highways Less Packed in Downturn
  • 5-20-09 Washington Post:  (GRAPHIC)  Top 10 Choke Points -- Despite an overall decrease in traffic congestion, there are still spots where traffic regularly comes to a crawl during peak periods. Here are the 10 worst traffic choke points in the region. These areas are characterized by severe congestion and extended delays - car speed ranged from 10 to 20 miles per hour, with 115 to 100 cars per mile, per lane
• 5-20-09 Washington Post:  Md. Road Projects Lose Out To Purple Line as Costs Rise
• 5-20-09 Catonsville (MD) Times:  Fair offers vets information regarding medical benefits
• 5-20-09 Associated Press:  Lawmakers flood House with pet highway projects
  • 5-19-09 Congressional Quarterly CQ Politics Today:  Senate Just Can’t Resist a Sprinkling of Earmarks -- Washington Democratic Sen. Patty Murray won a $4 million earmark to renovate space at Bethesda’s National Naval Medical Center to accommodate the Vision Center of Excellence — a facility to provide enhanced care for wounded troops who have suffered direct or indirect damage to their eyes and vision
  • 5-14-09 Congressman Chris Van Hollen:  FY10 Project Requests -- includes "BRAC-Related Improvements in Montgomery County, MD" and "BRAC-Related Transit, Roadway and Pedestrian Improvements" 
  • 5-14-09 Congressman Chris Van Hollen:  FY10 Surface Transportation Reauthorization Requests -- includes "Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Intersection Improvements" and "Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Metro Underpass Project"
  • May 2009 Senator Barbara A, Mikulski FY10 Maryland Funding Requests -- includes "National Naval Medical Center Transportation Improvements" (Armed Services/Military Construction) and "BRAC-Related Intersection Improvements"   (Transportation)
  • May 2009 Senator Cardin's Appropriations Requests for Fiscal Year 2010 -- includes "Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Metro Entrance Design" (Defense) and "BRAC-related Improvements - Montgomery County, Maryland" (Transportation)
• 5-20-09 Gazette.Net:  Transit Authority opposes Purple Line tunnel -- Study says the proposal would not be cost-effective
• 5-20-09 Gazette.Net:  Board split on plans for library pedestrian bridge -- Committee to discuss options again before County Council votes
• 5-20-09 Gazette.Net:  County planners see major hurdles in drafting ‘Science City' -- Proposals from Hopkins, neighbors meet stiff rebuke
• 5-20-09 Gazette.Net:  Volunteers clear path for wounded vets
• 5-20-09 Gazette.Net:  SHA to fund sidewalk design -- If built, Connecticut Avenue path would fill missing link between Kensington, Chevy Chase
• 5-20-09 Gazette.Net:  Residents want traffic to slow on part of Wisconsin Avenue -- Chevy Chase West traffic study suggests lowering speed limit, adding pedestrian safety features
• 5-20-09 Gazette.Net:  Trekking to work on two wheels
• 5-19-09 Annapolis Capital:  Busineses Digest -- BRAC Jobs 101 set for June (scroll down)
• 5-19-09 Washington Post:  John Kelly's Washington -- Model Guardians of a Small but Proud Fleet
• 5-19-09 Washington Post:  Solid Reputation Aids Md.'s Porcari In Bid for U.S. Job
• 5-19-09 MSNBC:  U.S. military: Heavily armed and medicated -- Prescription pill dependency among American troops is on the rise
• 5-19-09 New York Times:  Bob Herbert Op-Ed -- War’s Psychic Toll
• 5-19-09 Wall Street Journal:  Grassley Probes Kuklo Study
• 5-19-09 Baltimore Sun:  Work on luxury houses begins in Havre de Grace
• 5-18-09 Asbury Park (NJ) Press:  DOD's new cost to close fort: $1.8 billion -- Price tag up from BRAC panel's original $782 million in 2005
  • 5-18-09 Asbury Park (NJ) Press:  Editorial -- Possible replay for BRAC
• 5-18-09 Gazette.Net:  Washington traffic experts travel to Frederick County -- Meeting planned at time for them to experience traffic on I-270
• 5-18-09 Gazette.Net:  New biotech center: Baltimore or Montgomery? -- Dual offices says O'Malley, which will ‘work to Maryland's advantage'
• 5-18-09 Gazette.Net:  Budget cuts will mean eliminating programs, O'Malley says -- $200 million in reductions needed as revenues continue to lag
• 5-18-09 New York Times:  Senator Asks About Doctor Who Army Says Falsified G.I. Study
• 5-18-09 Washington Post:  Study Urges Using Neuroscience To Improve Soldiers' Performance
• 5-18-09 WTOP 103.5 FM News Radio:  Lawmaker proposes new Red Line station
• 5-18-09 Progressive Railroading:  USDOT: Now accepting applications for TIGER grants
• 5-18-09 Washington Business Journal:  Gov. Martin O'Malley outlines plan for biotech centers in Rockville, Baltimore
• 5-18-09 Washington Business Journal:  Survey: Suburbanites want city amenities
• 5-17-09 Washington Examiner:  Survey: Metrorail users more affluent, better educated
• 5-17-09 WTOP 103.5 FM News Radio (Associated Press):  Baltimore ponders tearing down elevated highway
• 5-17-09 WTOP 103.5 FM News Radio:  Less traffic on roadway makes it tough for Dulles Greenway
• 5-17-09 Wilmington (DE) News Journal:  Businesses, officials look for BRAC boom
• 5-17-09 Washington Post:  Clinic Shootings Highlight Mental Health Challenges for Military -- As Repeated Deployments Take Toll, Army Expands Prevention, Treatment Efforts
• 5-16-09 New York Times:  Among 5 Killed, a Mender of Heartache and a Struggling Private
• 5-16-09 Washington Post:  Md. Rejects Requests to Cut Funds For Schools -- 2 Area Counties Facing Deficits Sought Waiver
• 5-16-09 Associated Press:  Army fights stigma of mental care
• 5-16-09 Frederick News-Post:  NIH seeks comments on biocontainment transportation plan
• 5-15-09 Corridor Inc.:  Fort Meade wins second place in Army Communities of Excellence Program
• 5-15-09 Corridor Inc.:  Howard County job fair overrun
• 5-15-09 Forbes (Associated Press):  Md. budget secretary asks agencies to find savings
• 5-15-09 Congressional Quarterly CQ Today:  So Much for Earmark Restraint
• 5-15-09 WJLA/ABC7-TV:  Twin Honors for Med School Graduates
• 5-15-09 Army Times:  Old, new vets clash over IAVA chief comment
• 5-15-09 Inside NoVA.com:  Business alliance hosts BRAC-related seminars
• 5-15-09 Congressional Quarterly CQ Today:  LaHood Opens Competition for Stimulus Grant Funds
  • 5-15-09 U.S. Department of Transportation News Release:  Secretary LaHood: TIGER Discretionary Grants Will Target Major-Impact Transportation Projects, Job Creation
• 5-15-09 Washington Post:  A Single-Minded Focus on Dual Wars -- Defense Secretary Is Reorienting the Military to Meet U.S. Troops' Needs Now
  • 5-15-09 Washington Post:  Gates: 'I Don't Enjoy My Job'
• 5-15-09 Washington Post:  Md. Education Board Denies Cuts, Counties Face Layoffs
• 5-15-09 Gazette.Net:  Tax collections fall in April
• 5-15-09 Gazette.Net:  FDA consolidation passes halfway point -- More federal funding needed to move project forward
• 5-15-09 Gazette.Net:  Barry Rascover on Politics column -- MARC upgrades barely chugging along
• 5-15-09 Gazette.Net:  Commercial Real Estate: Fort Meade liquor store touted as BRAC development site (scroll down)
• 5-14-09 WTOP 103.5 FM News Radio:  Local leaders concerned about HOT lanes
• 5-14-09 Baltimore Sun:  Public divided over Red Line light rail plan -- Would tunnel under Fells Point, Downtown, Cooks Lane; surface in Canton and Edmondson Village
• 5-14-09 Frederick News-Post:  Biolab security, safety report available
• 5-14-09 CBS News:  Sec. Gates: I Have A Painful Job -- 60 Minutes: Secretary Of Defense Robert Gates Talks About Iraq, Afghanistan And His Job
• 5-14-09 Air Force Times:  Mental health bill finds new urgency
• 5-14-09 National Public Radio:  Military Stress Clinics: Treating Troops At War
• 5-14-09 WBOC-TV16 (Salisbury, MD):  Family of Md. Soldier Killed at Iraq Clinic Holds Press Conference
• 5-14-08 Wall Street Journal:  Army Investigation Cites Problems in Surgeon's Study
• 5-14-09 The Bond Buyer:  Oberstar Outlines His Vision -- Plans Big Change in Transportation
• 5-14-09 Washington Post:  Senate Bill Steers Away From the Car
• 5-14-09 Washington Post:  Annapolis: GOP Blames Tax for Drop in Million-Dollar Earners
• 5-14-09 NNMC Journal:  Peds, adolescent clinics move to swing spaces
• 5-14-09 NNMC Journal:  This Week at Bethesda
• 5-14-09 NNMC Journal:  Integrated OB/Gyn clinics align with success
• 5-14-09 NNMC Journal:  Did You Know? -- Commuter Information
• 5-14-09 NNMC Journal:  NNMC opens additional ward for specialized treatment
• 5-14-09 WRAMC Stripe:  Walter Reed continues to tackle parking challenges
• 5-14-09 WRAMC Stripe:  First WTB commander moves on from WRAMC
• 5-14-09 WRAMC Stripe:  Army budget considers families, training -- Provisions include pay increases for Soldiers, Army civilian staff
• 5-14-09 WRAMC Stripe:  Obama pledges to 'fully understand' Camp Liberty shooting
• 5-13-09 Southern Maryland Newspapers Online:  Soldiers on the homefront -- After being at war, adjusting to peace can be challenging
• 5-13-09 Business Week:  How to Land a Government Contract -- Federally funded building projects are ramping up. Here's some tips on how to land a public sector contract
• 5-13-09 Baltimore Business Journal:  Maryland income tax revenue drops 17 percent
• 5-13-09 Annapolis Capital:  Stimulus Confusion and More Fiscal Woes
• 5-13-09 Baltimore Sun:  Recession slows plans for downtown revitalization -- But Baltimore will weather this downturn better than last, report says
• 5-13-09 Washington Business Journal:  Maryland Web tools launched to connect businesses with stimulus funds
• 5-13-09 Reuters UK:  Tough talk on U.S. defense budget creates uncertainty
• 5-13-09 Loudoun Times-Mirror:  Major construction pads local economy
• 5-13-08 Wall Street Journal:  Health blog -- Army Says Faked Medical Study Involves 'Ghost' Soldiers
• 5-13-09 U.S. Army News Release:  Army makes progress in achieving balance, Casey says
• 5-13-09 Fairfax Connection:  What Are They Waiting For? -- Supervisors to vote on Springfield mall improvements, public anxious for work to get underway
• 5-13-09 Washington Examiner:  Area commuter train services becoming more bike-friendly
• 5-13-09 CBS News (Associated Press):  Victim Said Baghdad Suspect Had "Issues" -- Mother Of Counselor Killed In Clinic Rampage Says Son Got Along With Suspect
• 5-13-09 Gazette.Net:  No decisions made on White Flint funding -- Executive's office says sector plan is not ‘top priority' in county
• 5-13-09 Gazette.Net:  Legislators hold town hall in Bethesda -- County came out of legislative session ‘no worse than we went in'
• 5-13-09 Gazette.Net:  Developer picked for Bethesda station -- JBG could renovate current site or relocate 2nd District building
• 5-13-09 Gazette.Net:  Crown Farm developers go bankrupt -- New purchasers are on the hook for senior center money and other promised funding, city officials say
• 5-13-09 Maryland Gazette (Glen Burnie):  Editor's notebook -- Women's Center at Baltimore Washington Medical Center
• 5-12-09 The Infrastructurist:   Rail World blog -- How Better Funding For Transit Could Create 2 Million Additional Jobs
• 5-12-09 U.S. Army News Release:  Warrior Transition Command stands up at Pentagon
• 5-12-09 Washington Examiner:  Report: Rush-hour tolls would stem traffic, postpone road building
• 5-12-09 New York Times:  Switch Signals New Path for Afghan War
• 5-12-09 New York Times:  Doctor Falsified Study on Injured G.I.’s, Army Says
• 5-12-09 Washington Business Journal:  Fairfax Village gets platinum LEED rating
• 5-12-09 Frederick News-Post:  Brown says state bracing for across-the-board cuts
• 5-12-09 United Press International:  Issue of the Day: Baghdad killings reflect U.S. Army stress crisis
• 5-12-09 CNN:  Repeat deployments put strain on troops, veteran says
• 5-12-09 Hartford Courant:  Gaps In Mental Health Screenings Still Haunt Military -- Little Progress In Expanding Screenings
• 5-12-09 USA Today:  Slayings spotlight stress on combat
  • 5-12-09 USA Today:  War-zone massacre an uncommon event
• 5-12-09 Washington Post:  U.S. Soldier in Iraq Kills 5 Comrades at Stress Clinic
• 5-12-09 Washington Post:  Despite Stimulus Funds, States to Cut More Jobs -- Budget Shortfalls Prompt Mass Layoffs
• 5-12-09 Washington Post Express:  Wheeling in Employees: How to Keep Cyclists Happy at the Office
• 5-11-09 Gazette.Net:  $1.1 billion FDA complex in home stretch -- Eighth of 14 planned buildings on Montgomery County campus dedicated Monday
• 5-11-09 Gazette.Net:  Congress OKs $610M for NIST projects -- Stimulus money targets construction projects, research initiatives
• 5-11-09 Baltimore Sun:  Aberdeen Proving Ground gets an expanded entrance -- 715 gate goes from 2 lanes to 7 at a cost of $23 million
• 5-11-09 Corridor Inc.:  BRAC Bulletin: Howard business poised to make millions from Fort Meade expansion
• 5-11-09 Corridor Inc.:  Montgomery Inc.: Steve Silverman takes economic helm of Montgomery County
• 5-11-09 Corridor Inc.:  General Growth bankruptcy could shake Columbia, region’s future
• 5-10-09 Washington Post:  Bank Card System Weighed For Metro -- Transit Agency Cites Rider Convenience
• 5-10-09 Baltimore Sun:  Train station plan gets nudge -- North Laurel/Savage Briefs
• 5-9-09 Washington Post:  One-Third Of Roads Rated in Bad Shape -- Conditions Cost Drivers Hundreds
  • 5-8-09 American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO):  Rough Roads Costing Motorists Hundreds More Per Year
  • 5-8-09 AASHTO Report:  Rough Roads Ahead -- Fix Them Now or Pay for it Later
• 5-8-09 Baltimore Sun:  APG is state's emptiest neighborhood -- Four of top five are in East Baltimore
• 5-8-09 Congressional Quarterly CQ Politics Today:  LaHood: 'Perfection' Is Goal for Overhaul of Highway Trust Fund
• 5-8-09 U.S. Army News Release:  Study focuses on combat nightmares
• 5-8-09 WTOP 103.5 FM News Radio:  Are doors closing on federal funding for Metro?
• 5-8-09 Baltimore Business Journal:  COPT plots huge BRAC business park -- Columbia REIT one of few to keep building in region
• 5-7-09 Washington Post (Associated Press):  Dulles Rail Project Gets $77M in Federal Money
• 5-7-09 U.S. Department of Defense News Release:  Defense Department Budget Request Pushes Reform
• 5-7-09 Washington Examiner:  Wins, losses for D.C. in Obama budget
• 5-7-09 NNMC Journal:  Movers and Shakers -- U.S. Army Medical Corps Colonel Leon Moores, Deputy Commander for Integration at the National Naval Medical Center
• 5-7-09 NNMC Journal:  This Week at Bethesda
• 5-7-09 NNMC Journal:  Integration improving Bethesda’s Radiology Department
• 5-7-09 NNMC Journal:  Did You Know? -- Commuter Connections
• 5-7-09 WRAMC Stripe:  Course focuses on PTSD effects on families
• 5-7-09 WRAMC Stripe:  Walter Reed celebrates 100 years of service to the nation -- Honoring a century of Warrior Care
• 5-7-09 U.S. Department of Defense News Release:  DoD Releases Fiscal 2010 Budget Proposal
  • 5-7-09 OVERVIEW OF THE DOD FISCAL 2010 BUDGET PROPOSAL
  • 5-7-09 SUMMARY CHARTS OF THE DOD FISCAL 2010 BUDGET PROPOSAL
  • 5-7-09 U.S. Department of Defense Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Request
• 5-7-09 Congressional Quarterly CQ Today:  Budget Proposal Would Boost Defense Spending and Eliminate Weapons
• 5-7-09 Washington Post:  Obama Releases Details of $3.4 Trillion Budget Plan
• 5-7-09 Washington Post:  Up Next on N.Va. Transit: Planning for Everything -- Officials Propose Array of Projects
• 5-9-09 Fredericksburg (VA) Free Lance-Star:  Commuter ferry makes 'dry' run -- Commuter ferry does trial runs on the Potomac River this week
• 5-7-09 Stars and Stripes:  Army to test lighter gear and weaponry
• 5-7-09 Baltimore Sun:  Editorial: Little engines that could -- Our view: New locomotives are a help, but MARC's needs are a steep hill
• 5-7-09 Washington Business Journal:  Metro puts retail kiosks back on track
• 5-7-09 Movie Maker:  GI Film Festival Comes Out Fighting
• 5-7-09 Medical News Today:  PTSD Can Surface Up To 2 Years After Trauma
• 5-6-09 Governor Martin O'Malley News Release:  Governor O'Malley Unveils New "Green" Locomotives for MARC Commuter Rail Fleet -- O'Malley dubs locomotive the Senator Barb "Go Green" Express; Additional Double Decker Passenger Cars Also Entering Service
• 5-6-09 Army Times:  Study: Communities must do more for vets
• 5-6-09 Washington Post:  Studies Reject Proposals to Lessen Impact of Purple Line
• 5-6-09 USA Today:  Stressed troops take cues from ancient plays
• 5-6-09 Washington Examiner:  Dulles Toll Road fees to increase for Metrorail project
• 5-6-09 Greater Greater Washington blog:  For Montgomery's future, look to Arlington
• 5-6-09 U.S. Army News Release:  Pursuit of mental health care keeps warriors strong
• 5-6-09 Baltimore Sun:  MARC says new locomotives will boost capacity and reliability
• 5-6-09 Gazette.Net:  Plans changed for Woodmont East -- Offices will be built instead of hotel near Capital Crescent Trail
• 5-6-09 Gazette.Net:  First phase of Twinbrook Station moving along well, developer says -- Apartments, retail could be open by early to mid-2010
• 5-6-09 Gazette.Net:  County residents given a chance to speak out on growth -- Planning staff will be at two May meetings
• 5-6-09 Gazette.Net:  Montgomery County garages could get pay-by-phone parking -- Pilot program would allow Bethesda drivers to feed meters using cell phones
• 5-6-09 Gazette.Net:  Chevy Chase says new bike path may be dangerous -- Town says Crescent Trail alternative would require road safety improvements
• 5-6-09 Gazette.Net:  Matthew Henson Hiker-Biker Trail to open Saturday -- Dedication ceremony will celebrate completion of pathway through state park
• 5-6-09 WTOP 103.5 FM News Radio:  HOT lanes construction to pump billions into economy
• 5-5-09 United Press International:  Health News -- Injured Marines at risk for abnormal bones
• 5-5-09 Minneapolis Star Tribune:  Vietnam veterans are falling ill, but why now? -- For Vietnam veterans, new medical problems are surfacing many decades after they served in faraway Asia
  • 5-5-09 Minneapolis Star Tribune:  Medical help for veterans
• 5-5-09 Baltimore Sun:  Rethink flawed Red Line proposal -- Commentary by Robert C. Keith, member of the Red Line Citizen's Advisory Council
• 5-5-09 Congressional Quarterly CQ Politics Today:  Spurred by Gates, Congress May Consider Overhauling Military Health Care
• 5-5-09 Washington Post:  D.C. Council Okays Dedicated Funding for Metro
• 5-5-09 Military.com:  Military Spouses Meet with Pelosi
• 5-5-09 Washington Examiner (Associated Press):  Army study of soldier-involved homicides out soon
• 5-5-09 MSNBC:  Military Families Feel Disconnected
• 5-5-09 Journal of the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay:  Region's growth problem only getting larger -- Advocates push for controlling growth, not just managing it
• 5-5-09 U.S. Air Force News Release:  Transition assistance experts hone job-assistance skills
• 5-5-09 Medscape Today:  American Academy of Neurology 2009: Imaging Study Shows Blast Injury May Cause Brain Inflammation
• 5-5-09 WTOP 103.5 FM News Radio:  Metro predicts fare increase in 2011
• 5-5-09 WTOP 103.5 FM News Radio:  Drivers slowed near Telegraph Road
• 5-5-09 Baltimore Sun:  Mixed-use Howard project moves forward
• 5-4-09 Forbes:  America's Top 25 Towns To Live Well -- These regions boast cultural amenities, pro-business environments, highly educated workforces and enviable salaries
• 5-4-09 Washington Examiner:  Prince William begins testing ferry service
• 5-4-09 MSNBC:  Obey on Obama, Leo Durocher, Nixon: David Obey hopes President Obama isn't Leo Durocher -- or Richard Nixon -- In an off-camera meeting with reporters in his ornate office, the grizzled House Appropriations Chairman said he was giving President Obama essentially everything he wanted -- and then some -- in the approximately $94 billion 2009 supplemental appropriations for Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Pandemic Flu legislation to be presented Thursday.
  • 5-4-09 House Committee on Appropriations:   Obey Statement: 2009 Supplemental Appropriations for Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Pandemic Flu
  • 5-4-09 House Committee on Appropriations:  Summary: 2009 Supplemental Appropriations for Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Pandemic Flu
• 5-4-09 Washington Examiner:  Obama gets big war spending bill -- with strings attached
• 5-4-09 MarketWatch (Business Wire):  Fitch Rates M-NCPPC (Montgomery County, MD) $13.9MM GOs 'AAA'; Outlook Stable
• 5-4-09 Washington Post:  Transit Project's Location At Issue -- Montgomery Plans To Put Bus Depot In Frail Watershed
• 5-4-0 National Journal:  Expert Blogs: Transportation -- Should Fuel Taxes Pay For Alternative Transportation?
• 5-3-09 Huntsville (AL) Times:  BRAC cost needs more federal aid, official says
• 5-3-09 Washington Post:  Are Zigzag Markings a Jolt From Roadway 'Hypnosis'? -- Loudoun Wants Drivers to Slow Down
• 5-3-09 Annapolis Capital:  DISA ramps up recruitment in county
• 5-3-09 WTOP 103.5 FM News Radio:  Local job fair Thursday in Loudoun County
• 5-2-09 Washington Examiner:  Report: Metro eyeing funding to help aging system
• 5-1-09 WTTG/FOX5-TV:  Walter Reed Celebrates 100 Years
• 5-1-09 U.S. Department of Defense News Release:  'Home of Warrior Care' Hits Century Mark
• 5-1-09 U.S. Department of Defense News Release:  Testimony details Pentagon, VA plans for wounded warriors
• 5-1-09 The Trucker:  Contractor competition for road projects driving down costs, LaHood tells Congress
• 5-1-09 WTOP 103.5 FM News Radio:  Plans in gear for a new commuter parking lot
• 5-1-09 Baltimore Business Journal:  Maryland secures $42M in federal funding for BRAC
• 5-1-09 Area Development Online:  Bioscience Companies Showing Signs of Strength and Making New Investments -- Although the financial crisis has battered many bio firms, there are still signs of strength and new investments on the horizon to sustain this sector’s vitality.
• 5-1-09 Washington Post:  Expect Some Bumps On the Road to Better Highways
  • 5-1-09 Washington Post:  (Graphic) Transportation Projects on the Way -- Several transportation projects will disrupt the flow of traffic throughout the region this summer. Work will affect travel in the District, Maryland and Virginia. Phase one of the two-year, eight-phase rehabilitation of the 14th Street bridges begins this month. Workers will repave and refurbish decaying areas of the bridge decks
• 5-1-09 Washington Post:  Greater Washington 2050 Coalition: Poll Finds Schools, Safety Top Area's List -- Residents, Especially in N.Va., Call Transportation Major Long-Term Concern
• 5-1-09 Washington Post:  Development Approved Near Trail
• 5-1-09 Washington Business Journal:  Federal Contracting -- As Defense Department budget changes, local contractors adjust
• 5-1-09 Gazette.Net:  BioWatch: Biotechs ramp up efforts to wipe out TB, malaria -- Aeras opens new plant; Sanaria to launch phase 1 trial
• 5-1-09 Asbury Park (NJ) Press:  White House: Ft. Monmouth closure not under review
• 5-1-09 All Headline News:  Wounded Troops Experiencing Abnormal Bone Growth From Bomb Blasts
• 5-1-09 U.S. News & World Report:  Medical Attention for Soldiers Suffering From Stress Disorders and Brain Injuries -- Post-traumatic stress disorders and brain injuries are the signature injuries of today's wars
• 4-30-09 Tampa Tribune:  Many Holocaust survivors live with PTSD
• 4-30-09 Engineering News-Record:  House Panel Charts Early Stimulus Progress
• 4-30-09 Washington Post:  Metro Board Votes to Avoid Cuts With Rainy Day Fund
• 4-30-09 WTOP 103.5 FM News Radio:  Four Metro bus routes eliminated in Maryland
• 4-30-09 Congressional Quarterly CQ Today:  Billions More Sought for Highway Bill
• 4-30-09 Congressional Quarterly CQ Today:  Transportation Grants May Go to Ports and Freight
• 4-30-09 Washington Examiner:  Al Ritter commentary -- How's that BRAC working out?
• 4-30-09 Washington Examiner:  Metro directors decide to tap rainy day fund, cut four routes
• 4-30-09 Washington Examiner:  Study gave addicts morphine, then cut them off to see effects
• 4-30-09 Washington Examiner:  Walter Reed touts 100 years of military health
• 4-30-09 Popular Mechanics (May 2009 issue):  Virus Hunters: Inside Maryland's New Biosafety Level 4 Lab -- The swine flu has killed more than a hundred people in Mexico with reports of at least 40 infections in the United States. Could the flu cause a pandemic? Health researchers don't think so now, but the Center for Disease Control still suggests Americans take precautions by washing hands, covering coughs and staying home if taken ill. Behind closed doors, the NIH continues to study dangerous diseases of all varieties, preparing to stop the next outbreak before it begins. PM got an early inside look at American's newest infectious disease research laboratory, to see how scientists study the world's deadliest pathogens.
• 4-30-09 Washington Times:  Voice of the Third Estate -- The rise of military bloggers
• 4-30-08 Frederick News-Post:  Detrick residents upset about response to yellow water
• 4-30-08 Frederick News-Post:  VA hosting job-seeking workshop for veterans
• 4-30-09 Maryland Daily Record:  Private clubs are changing along with the firms that they serve
• 4-30-09 U.S. Army News Release:  Health care, communication top retiree concerns
• 4-30-09 NNMC Journal:  Branch clinics to realign, change
• 4-30-09 NNMC Journal:  This Week at Bethesda
• 4-30-09 NNMC Journal:  Subspecialties a success through integration
• 4-30-09 NNMC Journal:  Did You Know? -- Commuter Connections
• 4-30-09 NNMC Journal:  What's Hot in BRAC?
• 4-30-09 NNMC Journal:  Bethesda's FY 2009 Annual Plan progresses
• 4-30-09 WRAMC Stripe:  Commanding general celebrates rich legacy of Walter Reed, looks forward to bright future
• 4-30-09 WRAMC Stripe:  Sergeant Major of the Army salutes Walter Reed for 100 years of service, talks Year of the NCO
• 4-30-09 WRAMC Stripe:  Officials answer WTB town hall queries
• 4-30-09 WRAMC Stripe:  Walter Reed looks to the future planning to carrying on legacy
• 4-30-09 Fort Detrick Standard:  USAMRIID: Supporting improved diagnostics in Sierra Leone
• 4-30-09 Fort Detrick Standard:  Institute of Research leads the way in malaria research
• 4-30-09 Wall Street Journal:  An Affordable Fix for Modernizing Medical Records
• 4-29-09 Washington Post (Associated Press):  Transportation chief cites stimulus money success
• 4-29-09 Washington Examiner:  Van Hollen urges Metro to reject service cuts
• 4-29-09 Washington Examiner:   Rider advisory group urges Metro openness on budget
• 4-29-09 Washington Examiner:  Government injecting veterans with cocaine for drug addiction research
• 4-29-08 Frederick News-Post:  Detrick residents advised to boil water
• 4-29-09 Bloomberg.com:  Munis Slide for Fifth Day as California Agency Raises Yields
• 4-29-09 U.S. Army News Release:  Walter Reed marks 100 years of warrior care
• 4-29-09 U.S. Army News Release:  SMA (Sgt. Maj. of the Army) salutes Walter Reed for 100 years of service
• 4-29-09 WTOP 103.5 FM News Radio:  Metro discusses budget woes on Capitol Hill
• 4-29-09 U.S. Department of Defense News Release:  Retro Space Crew Module Undergoes Tests at Navy Facility
• 4-29-09 Washington Post:  Dr. Gridlock's Get There blog -- Metro Board to Review Rider Pleas
• 4-29-09 Gazette.Net:  Montgomery takes case for schools waiver to state -- Without it, more layoffs, cuts, possible 40-day furloughs on way, Leggett says
• 4-29-09 Gazette.Net:  Residents want bike, walking paths near Navy Med campus -- Neighbors say BRAC officials should look at traffic solutions that don't focus on cars
• 4-29-09 Gazette.Net:  Berliner proposes more Metro stops in Bethesda -- Councilman wants SHA to study adding new stops between Grosvenor-Strathmore and White Flint
• 4-29-09 Gazette.Net:  Hopkins: Suburban expansion to proceed -- Purchase of hospital will not affect construction, officials say
• 4-29-09 Gazette.Net:  Transportation committee weighs bus service cuts -- Leventhal: ‘We have to choose the least worst' option
• 4-29-09 Gazette.Net:  Planning Board overrules staff on potential MARC location -- Board split on where to put elementary school in sector
• 4-29-09 Gazette.Net:  Civic activist dies on way to hearing -- Goldstein mourned as ‘pillar' of community
• 4-28-09 Associated Press:  Top lawmaker wants mileage-based tax on vehicles
• 4-28-09 Maryland Daily Record:  O’Malley says Inter-County Connector is on track
• 4-28-09 Southern Maryland Online (Capital News Service):  Despite Some Positive News, Direction of State's Real Estate Market Unknown
• 4-28-09 Army Times:  VA advance funding one step closer to reality
• 4-28-09 Air Force Times:  VA recovery coordinators are vital, vets say
• 4-28-09 Washington Post:  Tributes pour in for MoCo activist Wayne Goldstein, dead at 56
• 4-28-09 New Urban News:  Federal program excites smart growth advocates -- DOT and HUD announce a joint effort to merge land use and planning to improve livability
• 4-28-09 Baltimore Sun:  Clandestine defense hub prepares to open at UM -- Research site to develop tools to fight future threats
• 4-28-09 Washington Post:  Marking Milestones -- At 100-Year-Old Walter Reed, Soldiers Receive Purple Hearts
  • Washington Post:  Walter Reed and Beyond: A Washington Post Investigation -- Walter Reed and Beyond follows the care and treatment of the men and women who came home from battle in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.  It examines the promises made, and realities lived, in the aftermath of war
• 4-28-09 Huntsville (AL) Times:  Half of Army Materiel Command staff headed here -- All 1,200 positions will be in Huntsville by late 2011, and at least 40 percent, "and maybe 50 percent," of the Washington-area work force will move with AMC
• 4-28-09 Washington Business Journal:  New owner won’t speed up Suburban Hospital’s expansion plans
• 4-28-09 WTOP 103.5-FM News Radio:  Program lets you pay parking meters using your cell phone
• 4-27-09 University if Maryland News Release:  It's Official: U.S. Intel Unit Gets Permanent Home at M-Square -- IARPA Dedication Brings Critical Mass to Park
• 4-27-09 New York Times:  U.S. Steps Up Effort on Digital Defenses
• 4-27-09 Washington Examiner:  Maryland officials to use light rail as placeholder in Purple Line plan
• 4-27-09 Gazette.Net:  Johns Hopkins won't change Suburban plans -- Purchase of hospital will not affect expansion, officials say
• 4-27-09 Gazette.Net:  Montgomery officials take their case for education waiver to state board -- Without it, more layoffs, cuts, possible 40-day furloughs on way, Leggett says
• 4-27-09 Gazette.Net:  Civic activist Wayne Goldstein dies -- Was headed to testify at hearing
• 4-27-09 Baltimore Sun:  MTA proposes new Quick Bus routes -- Minor changes also planned; public meetings scheduled
• 4-27-09 WTOP 103.5 FM News Radio (Associated Press):  Zipcar bringing car-sharing to public sector
• 4-27-09 WTOP 103.5 FM News Radio:  Potomac River ferry will be tested next week
• 4-27-09 Maryland Daily Record (Associated Press):  MTA to discuss bus route changes at meetings
• 4-27-09 Maryland Daily Record (Capital News Service):  State’s home sales show some life
• 4-26-09 Washington Examiner:  Metro holding $13.7M in reserves while proposing service cuts
• 4-26-09 Baltimore Sun:  Canton residents oppose transit plan -- But light rail line down Boston Street has official backing
• 4-26-09 Arlington (VA) Sun Gazette:  County Seeks Its DARPA Money from State
• 4-26-09 The Times of London:  Scores of troops traumatised by Afghan war
• 4-25-09 Washington Post:  Hopkins Acquires Suburban Hospital -- Campus Expansion to Be Reviewed
• 4-25-09 Inside NoVA.com:  Seeking a high end for Prince William retail
• 4-25-09 New York Times:  'Green' Freight Rail System -- Letter to the Editor from Ed Hamberger, President and Chief Executive, Association of American Railroads
• 4-25-09 Stars and Stripes:  Tom Philpott's Military Update -- Health record plan may open VA to all veterans
• 4-24-09 WTOP 103.5 FM News Radio:  Legislation could move Metro closer to dedicated funding
• 4-24-09 Journal of Commerce:  Oberstar Keeping Transport Bill on Fast Track
• 4-24-09 American Heart Association News Release:  Combat veterans may have poorer long-term quality of life than non-combat veterans
• 4-24-09 New York Times:  In Reversal, Army Ends Delay on Lightweight Armor
• 4-24-09 Congressional Quarterly CQ Today:  Transportation Groups: Next Six-Year Highway Bill Could Cost $1.4 Trillion
• 4-24-09 Inside NoVA.Com:  Parking problems challenge Fort Belvoir
• 4-24-09 Washington Post:  Transportation Secretary Is the Stimulus Package's Biggest Republican Fan
  • 4-24-09 Washington Post:  (VIDEO) New Voices of Power: Interviews with Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, including:
    • Obama's Vision for Ground Transportation
    • How Stimulus Dollars Are Decided
• 4-24-09 Washington Post:  Graham to Offer D.C. Bill On U.S. Funding for Metro
• 4-24-09 Washington Business Journal:  Stimulus research fuels Johns Hopkins job fair
• 4-24-09 WTOP 103.5 FM News Radio:  Buglers give every veteran a proper final send off
• 4-24-09 Gazette.Net:  ICC, college projects feel budget crunch -- But lawmakers say shortfalls will be covered in fiscal 2011
• 4-24-09 Gazette.Net:  Jobless rate is up, but just a bit -- Sales tax collections plunged nearly 10 percent last month
• 4-23-09 U.S. Department of Defense News Release:  Air Force doctors use virtual reality to treat PTSD
• 4-23-09 Medscape Medical News:  Brains of Veterans With and Without PTSD Differ, Imaging Study Shows -- Findings May Have Future Implications for Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment
• 4-23-09 WBAL-TV 11 (Baltimore):  Job Fair Helps Boost Post-Military Careers
• 4-23-09 Washington Business Journal:  Sanaria to begin human trials of malaria vaccine
• 4-23-09 WRAMC Stripe:  The real 'Bionic Man' -- Wounded Warrior first to use next-generation powered legs
• 4-23-09 WRAMC Stripe:  Centennial celebration begins Monday
• 4-23-09 WRAMC Stripe:  Residency program a success through integration
• 4-23-09 NNMC Journal:  Deputy Commander for Integration’s Column
• 4-23-09 NNMC Journal:  This Week at Bethesda
• 4-23-09 NNMC Journal:  Did You Know? -- Commuter Solutions
• 4-23-09 NNMC Journal:  What's Hot in BRAC?
• 4-23-09 Washington Informer:  Prince George's Black Chamber of Commerce Celebrates 8th Annual Gala
• 4-23-09 Gazette.Net:  Clearing up BRAC -- Letter to the Editor from Asuntha Chiang-Smith, Executive Director of Governor's Subcabinet on Base Realignment and Closure
• 4-23-09 Washington Post:  In Change, City Will Cover Metro Fees for Late Night Games
• 4-23-09 Asbury Park (NJ) Press:  E-mail drive launched in effort to save fort
• 4-23-09 PoliceOne.com:  PTSD can attack years later -- Even with no previous symptoms
• 4-22-09 U.S. Department of Defense Military Health System News Release:  Grant to Support Identification of Medical Needs for Service Members with Combat Injuries and Their Families
• 4-22-09 Washington Examiner:  Online ride-sharing tool expanding beyond only workday needs
• 4-22-09 Southern Maryland Online (Capital News Service):  Md. Fears Census Undercount Could Curtail Federal Funds
• 4-22-09 Coalition for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans (CIAV) News Release: National Coalition for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans to Convene in DC to Improve Care for Military and Veteran Community, Families, and Survivors
• 4-22-09 Northeast Baltimore County Booster:  County rolls out BRAC welcome mat -- Northeast likely to attract new workers
• 4-22-09 Washington Post:  A Pentagon Cyber-Command Is in the Works
• 4-22-09 Washington Post:  Dr. Gridlock's Get There column -- Budget Cuts Pit Bus Riders Against Drivers
• 4-22-09 Gazette.Net:  Elrich: Rapid bus system may ease BRAC traffic -- Councilman says transportation network could move more new employees than Purple Line
• 4-22-09 Gazette.Net:  New developments proposed for Woodmont Triangle -- Plans submitted for high-rise apartment, office buildings
• 4-22-09 Gazette.Net:  Kensington sector plan update goes forward -- Recommendations include connecting areas separated by roads, train tracks
• 4-21-09 Washington Post:  Dr. Gridlock's Get There column -- Montgomery Considering Bus Fare Increases
• 4-21-09 Business Wire:  Fitch Rates $110MM Maryland Dept. of Transportation Bonds 'AA'
• 4-21-09 Washington Post:  (scroll down) Maryland Briefing: Montgomery County -- Leggett Recommends $31 Million in Cuts
• 4-21-09 Washington Post:  Environment: Private Wells Surveyed in Fort Meade Area -- Army Assessing Potential Risk to Residents Near Contaminated Monitoring Sites
• 4-21-09 Washington Post:  5-Cent Hikes Better Than Bus Cut Idea, Many Riders Say
• 4-21-09 San Antonio Business Journal:  Air Force awards contract to help Brooks unit move to D.C. area
• 4-20-09 Columbia (MD) Flier:  Ulman budget includes layoffs, furloughs -- Spending cut by 4 percent; 'crucial core priorities' funded
• 4-20-09 Maryland Daily Record:  Plan would put cars on O’Donnell, trucks on Boston
• 4-20-09 Gazette.Net:  Leggett: It could have been worse -- Looking back on '09 session, Montgomery County Executive pleased
• 4-20-09 WMAR/ABC2-TV:  New Jobs Coming to Baltimore County
• 4-20-09 Annapolis Capital:  BWMC (Baltimore Washington Medical Center) expands west county medical services -- Health Services at Arundel Mills to serve growing population
• 4-20-09 Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) News Release: Supporting Servicemembers with Combat Injuries
• 4-20-09 Washington Post:  Marc Fisher column -- Most Livable City: Bethesda?
• 4-20-09 WTOP 103.5 FM News Radio (Associated Press):  Army settles with EPA over Aberdeen fuel storage
• 4-20-09 Federal Times:  DoD applies telework, subsidies to ease BRAC moves
• 4-20-09 Chicago Public Radio WBEZ 91.5 FM:  Therapists Use Internet to Treat Reluctant Veterans
• 4-19-09 Stars and Stripes:  Defense vision center planning on track after delays
• 4-19-09 Washington Examiner:  Riders rebel against proposed bus cuts
• 4-19-09 WRC/NBC4-TV:  District Discord With Md., Va. Could Cost Metro $1.5 Billion -- Legislation needs to be in sync for release of funds
• 4-19-09 Washington Post:  D.C. Out Of Sync On Metro Funding -- Va., Md. See Alike, But City Wants Vow From Congress
• 4-19-09 Washington Post:  Tysons Braces for a One-Two Punch
• 4-19-09 Wilmington (DE) News Journal:  Editorial -- Del. officials must stay focused on mission ahead with BRAC
• 4-19-09 Politico:  Napolitano regrets "politicization" of report
• 4-18-09 Frederick News-Post:  Jobs available at Fort Detrick
• 4-18-09  Providence Journal:  Gates says U.S. must adapt to new enemies
• 4-18-09 Washington Post:  Roger K. Lewis Shaping the City column -- Standing in the Way of Smart Urban Development
• 4-18-09 Washington Post:  Eco-Agenda Goes the Next Mile on 3 Wheels
• 4-17-09 PBS Blueprint America Report on the Infrastructure Crisis:  The No. 13 Line Blog -- Reauthorization 2009: The Year of Transportation
• 4-17-09 New York Times:  Lightweight Armor Is Slow to Reach the War Zone
• 4-17-09 Congressional Quarterly CQ Today:  Overhaul of Military Health Care System Possible This Year
• 4-17-09 Air Force Times:  TBI screens need to get specific, report says
• 4-17-09 Washington Times:  Homeland issued 'extremism' report despite objections -- Napolitano apologizes to veterans offended by report
• 4-17-09 Wall Street Journal:  Veterans a Focus of FBI Extremist Probe
• 4-17-09 Wall Street Journal:  U.S. Commits $13 Billion to Aid High-Speed Rail
• 4-17-09 Washington Business Journal:  Fed to invest $13 billion in nationwide high-speed rail project
• 4-17-09 Washington Post:  Extremism Report -- Napolitano Offers Apology to Veterans
• 4-17-09 Washington Post:  For Army Amputee, 2 Steps Forward -- Iraq Veteran and Walter Reed Officials Praise Advances in Smart Prosthetic
• 4-17-09 Washington Post:  Federal Diary column -- Government Union Battles West Point Over Privatization of 300 Jobs
• 4-17-09 Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) News Reklease:  AFIP Director's Message: Continuing Excellence in Customer Service -- As many of you know, the road ahead for disestablishing the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) and the standing up of a Joint Pathology Center (JPC) continues to be a road that includes many potholes, an occasional detour here and there, rest areas that are far and few in between, and roadside signs that are often as contradictory as they are frequent: Stop. Go. Yield. Right of Way. No U Turn.  What has not changed is the fact that the BRAC law will disestablish the AFIP in 2011.
• 4-17-09 Gazette.Net:  DBED fund sliced by $6 million -- Money helps companies grow or move to state
• 4-17-09 Gazette.Net:  On the DOT: Porcari pick draws widespread praise -- Obama nod to state transportation secretary a ‘real surprise'
• 4-17-09 Wilmington (DE) News Journal:  Aberdeen draws Delaware officials
• 4-17-09 Fredericksburg (VA) Free Lance-Star:  Route 3 Widening OK'd -- State Route 3 project funded with federal stimulus money
• 4-17-09 Forbes (HealthDay News):  Poor Health Linked to PTSD Risk Among Vets -- Risk highest for those with low mental and physical scores, study says
• 4-17-09 New York Times:  Gates Takes His Case for Military Budget on the Road

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