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March,  2013 News

• 3-31-13 Washington Post:  Beneath the surface, the Beltway crumbles
• 3-31-13 Association of Defense Communities:  Air Force Looks to Grow EUL Program
  • 3-28-13 U.S. Air Force Civil Engineer Center:  Enhanced Use Leases provide Air Force alternative funding
• 3-30-13 Baltimore Sun:  Maryland adds 10,500 jobs in February -- State is 9,000 jobs away from regaining pre-recessionary base
• 3-29-13 Gazette.Net:  Despite sequester, FDA’s White Oak construction continues -- But federal budget cutting could mean headaches for area landlords
• 3-28-13 Washington Examiner:  Examiner Local Editorial: Bethesda 'Death Lane' should be DOA
  • 3-28-13 Bethesda Now:  Examiner Editorial: Do Away With Rockville Pike ‘Death Lane’ — The ever provocative Washington Examiner editorial board yesterday came out against the State Highway Administration’s proposed extra lane for Rockville Pike at Cedar Lane. The Board labeled it a “death lane,” because an independent traffic analyst hired by residents against the project concluded it would cause safety issues in a merge area. SHA officials at the March 19 meeting cited in the editorial denied that, saying the designed merge area is standard throughout the state and country.
• 3-28-13 Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  TBI Awareness Month: Walter Reed Bethesda Furthers Education, Treatment
• 3-28-13 Gazette.Net:  Therapy dogs take over the Silver Spring Civic Building
• 3-28-13 Bethesda Now:  Pike & Rose Provides Update On First Phase
• 3-28-13 Transportation Nation:  With Plans Drawn, Maryland’s Purple Line Scares Some Business Owners
• 3-28-13 Gazette.Net:  Business owners near Fort Detrick worry about gate closure -- Opossumtown Pike entrance to be closed Monday in a money-saving move
• 3-27-13 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Wounded warriors can't find parking for treatment at Walter Reed
  • 3-27-13 WJLA/ABC7 TV:  Walter Reed Medical Center patients say parking is hard to find
• 3-27-13 Gazette.Net:  Gate changes at Forest Glen Annex
• 3-27-13 Washington Post:  Silver Spring Transit Center’s inspectors ran poor concrete tests, report says
  • 3-27-13 Washington Post:  (SLIDE SHOW)  Concrete concerns at Silver Spring Transit Center -- An independent study has found multiple design and construction failures
• 3-27-13 Bethesda Now:  Construction Gallery: Woodmont Triangle
• 3-27-13 Gazette.Net:  Mom-and-pop stores still thriving in Bethesda -- Customer service cited as key to survival
• 3-26-13 Gazette.Net:  Activists say transit priority essential to traffic relief -- Montgomery County planners refine master plan language
• 3-26-13 Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness: Response to Congress, First Submission under Section 731 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 -- Plan for Reform of the Administration of the Military Health System -- The estimated cost of report or study for the Department of Defense is approximately $3,380 for the 2013 Fiscal Year. This includes $600 in expenses and $2,780 in DoD labor.  (Generated on 5 March 2013; Reference ID: 7-3B32E05)
• 3-26-13 Washington Post:  Charles Lane commentary -- Tricare the untouchable
• 3-25-13 Montgomery County Dept. of Transportation:  Who to call for Residential Parking Permit enforcement issues
• 3-25-13 Montgomery County Government:  Department of Transportation Seeks Resident Involvement; New Brochure Details Opportunities for Public Input
• 3-25-13 Bethesda Now:  New Westin Hotel Plan Goes To Planning Board Next Week
• 3-25-13 Gazette.Net:  Montgomery County’s population reaches 1 million -- Migration suggests rebounding housing market, planner says
• 3-25-13 Hampton Roads Virginian-Pilot:  Consultant hired to protect state from base closures
• 3-25-13 United States Air Force:  DOD requires more base closings, official says
• 3-25-13 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  DoD in denial about budget future, experts say
• 3-25-13 Baltimore Sun:  Fort Meade VA Outpatient clinic advances effort to serve women veterans -- New $4.7 million clinic to be dedicated Monday
• 3-24-13 Baltimore Sun:  Recession changed course of population growth in metro Baltimore
• 3-24-13 Maryland Capital Gazette:  Outpatient clinic for veterans to open at Fort Meade
• 3-24-13 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Popular Capital Bikeshare program expands in Va.
• 3-23-13 Maryland Capital Gazette:  Fort Meade seeks members for environmental board
• 3-23-13 Washington Post:  Real Estate -- House of the Week: National Park Seminary condo for $870,000
• 3-22-13 Gazette.Net:  Cardin warms to Frederick alderman’s I-270 bus lane idea -- Senator offers help to study bus shoulders between counties
• 3-22-13 Bethesda Patch:  Former Arlington Road Post Office Set To Be Demolished -- A five-story building with 140 residential units and street retail is planned for the site.
• 3-22-13 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Daunting task: Saving the life of a hero at Walter Reed
• 3-22-13 Fort Detrick Standard:  Gate Changes at Fort Detrick and Forest Glen Coming April 1
• 3-22-13 Fort Detrick Standard:  Brains! National Museum of Health and Medicine Entertains and Educates During Brain Awareness Week
• 3-22-13 Fort Detrick Standard:  Forest Glen Annex to Hold Building Manager’s Forum
• 3-22-13 Washington Examiner:  Smart growth key to Montgomery County's future
• 3-21-13 U.S. Department of Defense:  Uniformed Services University Ranks Among Top Medical Schools
• 3-21-13 Washington Post:  Capital Business --  Former Walter Reed hospital sparks interest from nine developers interested in building town center
• 3-21-13 Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  NSAB All Hands Call Discusses Sequestration, Command Climate
• 3-21-13 Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  NSA Bethesda Project Aims to Make More Sidewalks ADA Compliant
• 3-21-13 Gazette.Net:   Rockville holds hearing on plan for the Pike -- Some residents concerned about height of buildings allowed in draft plan
• 3-20-13 Bethesda Now:  Many Not Ready To Give Up Traffic Lanes For Bus Rapid Transit
• 3-20-13 Bethesda Now:  Rockville Pike Residents Angry Over Proposed Extra Lane
• 3-20-13 Gazette.Net:  Plan for new Rockville Pike lane angers locals -- Residents claim extra lane will do little to ease congestion
• 3-20-13 Montgomery County Dept. of Transportation:  More engineering-based pedestrian safety improvements
• 3-20-13 Gazette.Net:  Walkers and drivers share blame in accidents -- In the past 30 days, there have been nine victims in five separate accidents in Montgomery County
• 3-20-13 Bethesda Now:  Metro Bus Bay Shutdown Could Mean Big Changes
• 3-20-13 Bethesda Now:  White Flint Downtown Committee Finalized
• 3-20-13 Washington Post:  Silver Spring Transit Center unsafe and unusable without major repairs, officials say
• 3-20-13 Odenton-Severn Patch:  Fort Meade Outlines Details on Furloughs -- Officials reach an agreement with a labor union on one-day-a-week furloughs, which could kick in April 26 and extend to September
• 3-19-13 Frederick News-Post:  Detrick gate closing amid budgetary concerns -- Will save as much as $10,000 weekly
• 3-19-13 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  Pentagon releases furlough time table
• 3-19-13 Gazette.Net:  Montgomery Planning Board rejects first draft of Bus Rapid Transit -- Next draft will include language on why decisions were made, Cole says
• 3-19-13 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Bus rapid transit: Will it solve traffic problems in MoCo?
• 3-19-13 Washington Business Journal (VIDEO):  Montgomery County to market itself with video on land, in the air
• 3-19-13 Gazette.Net:  Break out the brains: students learn neuroscience at National Museum of Health and Medicine -- Museum celebrates Brain Awareness Week with hands-on activities
• 3-19-13 Baltimore Sun:  Maryland gained 6,700 jobs in January; unemployment unchanged -- Unemployment rate is 6.7%, compared with national average of 7.9%
• 3-19-13 Washington Post:  Walter Pincus Fine Print column -- Closing military bases: Common ground on the wrong front
• 3-18-13 Bethesda Now:  Chevy Chase Lake Plan Encounters Criticism In First Council Worksession
• 3-18-13 Bethesda Now:  Bus Rapid Transit Could Mean Two Fewer Lanes For Rockville Pike Traffic
• 3-18-13 Bethesda Now:  Budget, Rockville Pike Discussions Coming Up
• 3-18-13 WTOP 103.5 FM:  As Iraq war winds down, retired Navy admiral wants troops remembered
• 3-18-13 Politico:  The delicate matter of base closures
• 3-17-13 WTOP 103.5 FM (Associated Press):  Vet who saved many in Iraq couldn't escape demons
• 3-15-13 Montgomery County Planning Dept.:  Montgomery County Population Surpasses 1 Million, Says Latest Census
• 3-15-13 Gazette.Net:  An oasis on Rockville Pike?
• 3-15-13 Bethesda Now:  Developers Promise ‘Landmark’ Building For Downtown Bethesda
• 3-15-13 Washington Business Journal:  Oversaturated: Greater Washington's glut of apartments -- Our rental market is about to get oversaturated. So why are developers still breaking ground? Everyone seems to agree it’s just a matter of time, but there’s disagreement about how bad the pain will be
• 3-15-13 Joint Base Andrews Gazette:  Outpatient surgeries coming to Joint Base Andrews
  • 3-15-13 Joint Base Andrews Gazette:  ‘We can rebuild him - we have the technology’
• 3-15-13 Joint Base Andrews Gazette:  Furloughs can begin April 26, DOD Comptroller says
  • 3-15-13 Joint Base Andrews Gazette:  Sequestration impacts ripple across Air Force
• 3-15-13 Federal News Radio 1500 AM (Associated Press):  Lawmakers say they oppose more base closings
• 3-15-13 Baltimore Sun:  Big I-95 project planned in Harford faces long delay -- $2 billion expansion, express toll lanes put on ice because of lack of funding
• 3-14-13 Maryland-National Capital Park & Planning Commission:  Planners to Present Countywide Transit Corridor Recommendations to Planning Board -- In some areas, such as Rockville Pike, where forecast ridership is as high as 2,500 people per hour in rush hour in the peak direction, planners recommend creating median busways by reducing the existing six traffic lanes to four
• 3-14-13 Bethesda Now:  County Responds To Recent Series Of Pedestrian Collisions
  • 3-14-13 Bethesda Patch:  Map: 12 Pedestrian, Bike Collisions in Montgomery County This Year -- See where pedestrian and bike collisions happen
• 3-14-13 Association of Defense Communities:  Witnesses Reveal No News on Pentagon’s BRAC Intentions
• 3-14-13 United States Army:  BRAC: Paring Army infrastructure would sharpen warfighters' edge
• 3-14-13 Washington Post:  Walter Pincus Fine Print column -- Military rethinking leads to some hard choices
• 3-14-13 Washington Post:  D.C. metro area population growth slows
• 3-14-13 Bethesda Patch:  Purple, Red Lines Could Yield 7,000 Construction Jobs -- Officials are readying Maryland's workforce, but funding for the light rail projects still remains uncertain
  • 3-14-13 Baltimore Business Journal:  Maryland to train workers for planned Red, Purple line projects
  • 3-14-13 Gazette.Net:  O’Malley’s gas tax bill faces bumpy road in Frederick County -- Proposal could limit funding for road work, angering local elected officials
• 3-14-13 Gazette.Net:  Hazmat crews cleaning up chemical spill at Bethesda naval facility -- Facility evacuated during cleanup
• 3-14-13 U.S. Department of Defense:  Furloughs Could Affect Army's Behavioral Health Care
• 3-14-13 MSN Real Estate (Forbes):  America's wealthiest neighborhoods -- Ever wonder where the wealthiest enclaves in the country lie? According to the latest data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, these 10 top the list
• 3-14-13 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Fix needed for U.S. 1 traffic 'nightmare' between Quantico and Fort Belvoir
• 3-13-13 Bethesda Now:  Video Rendering Of Pike & Rose In White Flint
• 3-13-13 Bethesda Now:  Pearl Street Down To One Lane As Bethesda Office Construction Ramps Up
• 3-13-13 Bethesda Patch:  Does Wisconsin Ave. Need More Buses Between Bethesda and Friendship Heights? -- Many attendees of the Land Use/Transportation Committee of the Western Montgomery County Citizens Advisory Board meeting on Monday night agreed that more bus service is needed between these neighboring urban centers
• 3-13-13 ABC7 TV (Denver) (Scripps Howard News Service):  Medical advances come from lessons learned during wartime in Iraq and Afghanistan
• 3-13-13 U.S. Department of Defense:  DOD’s Top Doctor Details Sequester’s Effect on Health System
• 3-13-13 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  Military 'quality of life' to suffer under sequestration
• 3-13-13 Gazette.Net:  Bid to test unmanned aircraft key to St. Mary’s economic diversity -- Effort to win FAA designation under way
• 3-13-13 Gazette.Net:  Metro station escalators to be upgraded -- Contracts awarded for escalators, MetroAccess improvements
• 3-13-13 WTOP 103.5 FM:  U.S. 29, a popular alternate to I-95 in Maryland
• 3-12-13 Gazette.Net:  Crosswalks around Bethesda Elementary under scrutinty -- Locals demand change after mother, child are hit in crosswalk
• 3-13-13 Washington Post:  Pentagon creating teams to launch cyberattacks as threat grows
• 3-12-13 Association of Defense Communities:  Pentagon Not Likely to Gain Flexibility to Mitigate Sequester
• 3-12-13 Voice of America:  Sequestration Puts Malaria Vaccine Trial in Jeopardy
• 3-12-13 United States Marine Corps:  Energy drinks may offer morning boost, but could have adverse effects
• 3-12-13 Frederick News-Post:  A comeback community: CNN names Frederick among America’s top resurging towns
  • 3-12-13 CNN:  America's best small town comebacks
• 3-12-13 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  DoD furloughs to begin April 26, with almost no exceptions
• 3-11-13 Gazette.Net:  Chevy Chase Lake plans draw praise -- But residents knock plan for 150-foot-tall buildings
• 3-11-13 Gazette.Net:  Developers sketch new $50 million arena for Montgomery County -- Arena to be built near Shady Grove Metro Station
• 3-11-13 CNN:  Commuters give up the 'ball and chain'
• 3-11-13 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  Army promises improvements in evaluation of soldiers with PTSD
  • 3-11-13 Federal News Radio 1500 AM (Associated Press):  Combat stress felt far from front lines
• 3-9-13 Montgomery County Dept. of Transportation:  Public meeting March 27: Purple Line Neighborhood Work Group
• 3-9-13 Maryland Capital Gazette:  $875M computer center coming to Fort Meade
• 3-8-13 Gazette.Net:  Private sector to expand as federal cuts threaten jobs -- Study shows Montgomery County will lose 4,000 federal jobs, but businesses to add 44,000 throughout four years
• 3-8-13 Bethesda Patch:  Metro Eyeing Bethesda For 'Station Of The Future' Pilot Program -- Metro made the announcement Friday at a Chamber of Commerce task force meeting
  • 3-8-13 Bethesda Now:  Bethesda Leaders Optimistic About Metro ‘Station Of The Future’ Project
• 3-8-13 Navy Medicine Live blog:  New Governance Model for the Military Health System
• 3-8-13 Washington Examiner:  New Kensington plan centers around sidewalks, trees
• 3-8-13 Joint Base Andrews Gazette:  Time now to get smart on sequestration, furlough
• 3-8-13 Baltimore Sun:  Transportation Center to open at APG -- APG, Harford County, working to give employees alternate transportation options
• 3-7-13 Intelligence Community Campus-Bethesda (ICCB) Project Presentation to National Capital Planning Commission  (26 pp)
• 3-7-13 Association of Defense Communities:  GAO Offers Recommendations for the Next BRAC Round
  • 3-7-13 Washington Business Journal:  Inadequate BRAC planning led to ballooning costs, GAO finds
  • 3-7-13 Government Accountability Office:  GAO Report 13-149: Military Bases -- Opportunities Exist to Improve Future Base Realignment and Closure Rounds
• 3-7-13 Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  Walter Reed Bethesda Leadership Prepares for Sequestration
  • 3-7-13 Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  Sequestration And Furlough, The Financial Impact
• 3-7-13 Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  Wounded Vet Undergoes Successful Double-Arm Transplant
• 3-7-13 Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  ‘Heart of the hospital’ celebrates recent renovation
• 3-7-13 Gazette.Net:  Residents question plans to build 3,220 homes in southern Frederick County -- Open house brings out those concerned about growth in Monrovia, Urbana
• 3-7-13 Washington Examiner:  New MARC schedule upsets some long-distance riders
• 3-7-13 Washington Post:  Federal Diary -- Federal managers tell Congress budget cuts will hurt DOD’s mission and federal workers
• 3-7-13 Washington Post:  Walter Pincus Fine Print column -- A special budgetary place for Defense
• 3-7-13 Stars and Stripes:  Military health officials bracing for budget cuts
• 3-6-13 Gazette.Net:  Chevy Chase Lake: How big is too big? -- Developers, residents spar over scope of mixed-use project
• 3-5-13 Association of Defense Communities:  Sequestration Prompts Virginia Governor to Establish Military Installations Panel
• 3-5-13 Association of Defense Communities:  Army Needs BRAC Too
• 3-5-13 Washington Post:  Navy orders savings affecting employees, ships and more -- The Navy has said that in response to sequestration, it will start laying off temporary employees, slow down maintenance at Marine Corps depots and continue its earlier-announced hiring freeze and planning for furloughs of nearly all its civilian federal employees
• 3-5-13 Washington Post:  Washington has one of the highest levels of extreme commutes in the U.S.
• 3-5-13 Washington Post:  O’Malley proposes new tax on gas to shore up Maryland’s transportation fund
• 3-5-13 Gazette.Net:  Bethesda resource speaks volumes on health and healing -- National Library of Medicine a hidden treasure
• 3-4-13 Bethesda Now:  County Makes Changes To Bethesda, Woodmont Avenues Traffic Signal
• 3-3-13 Washington Examiner:  Chevy Chase Lake neighbors fight redevelopment
• 3-3-13 Baltimore Sun:  What went wrong at the Super Pond? -- Army says Underwater Explosion Test Facility was safe, until three deaths in less than a month
• 3-1-13 Washington Post:  Spending cuts create challenges for Army
• 3-1-13 Politico:  Pentagon plans to ask for base closures
• 3-1-13 Washington Post:  Montgomery’s ‘Mad Men’ modern buildings — are they worth protecting?
• 3-1-13 Washington Post:  Maryland congestion costs drivers $2,195 annually
• 3-1-13 Bethesda Patch:  Vision Takes Shape For High Rise At Old Georgetown Road, Commerce Lane -- Developers Kettler are planning a 15-story retail and residential building across the street from the Bethesda Metro
• 3-1-13 WHAG TV (Hagerstown):  EPA Wants to Test Land Surrounding Fort Detrick
• 3-1-13 ARLnow.com:  Underground McDonald’s Closes in Crystal City -- The closure comes as Crystal City faces higher office vacancies and fewer workers as a result of the Base Realignment and Closure Act (BRAC). As of January, almost 20 percent of Crystal City’s 12.5 million square feet of office space was vacant 

 

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