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May, 2014 News

• 5-31-14 Maryland Capital Gazette:  Fort Meade celebrates Bike to Work Day
• 5-31-14 Washington Post (Associated Press):  Md. light rail to reach areas of vacant homes
• 5-30-14 Gazette.Net:  SHA mulling Bethesda intersection redesign -- Reducing the curve could make the area safer, the agency says
• 5-30-14 Bethesda Now:  North Bethesda Market II Project Back On
• 5-30-14 Washington Post (Associated Press):  Md. state park hosts wounded veteran dog training
• 5-30-14 Fort Detrick Standard:  Forest Glen Child Care Provider Plays Key Role in National Accreditation Process
• 5-30-14 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  U.S. Cyber Command wants DISA to take greater role in DoD cyber defense
• 5-30-14 U.S. Department of Defense:  Diary of a Sergeant -- Harold Russell is an anomaly in film history. When Russell was cast in the classic film, "The Best Years of Our Lives," he had practically no acting experience.  Despite being the only person to win two Academy Awards for the same performance, Russell had no desire to be an actor. Moreover, Russell’s rise to stardom came in spite of two iron hooks that substituted for hands. In fact, his cinematic success was because of them.
• 5-30-14 Washington Post:  Maryland poaching start-ups left and right
• 5-29-14 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Cedar Lane in Bethesda to close for months
• 5-29-14 Naval Support Activity Bethesda Journal:  Director’s Column -- Eight months ago, the Defense Health Agency (DHA) was established by the Secretary of Defense.
• 5-29-14 Kaiser Health News:  FAQ: VA And Military Care Are Different, But Often Confused
• 5-29-14 Washington Post:  How Washington cyclists can stay safe as more bikes hit city streets -- “Whether you’re visiting, going to dinner here or you work here or live here, our goal is to make it a great environment to walk and bike,” said Dennis Leach, [Arlington] county’s transportation director. That’s why the county — along with the District, Alexandria and Montgomery County — pays WABA to hold cycling classes in the spring and fall.
• 5-28-14 Gazette.Net:  Concerns intensify over BRT’s effect on Olney businesses -- Leggett, SHA officials say project in early stages, no funding available
• 5-28-14 Association of Defense Communities:  Planning Group Tackles Regional Growth Concerns outside Aberdeen Proving Ground
• 5-28-14 Gazette.Net:  Silver Spring residents concerned with property plans for Purple Line project -- MTA says it is willing to work with owners to establish fair value
• 5-28-14 Washington Post:  Hagel orders review of Pentagon health-care facilities
  • 5-27-14 New York Times:  Army Ousts Commander of Hospital After Deaths
• 5-26-14 Washington Post:  As White Flint/North Bethesda area changes, officials wonder what to call it
• 5-26-14 Washington Post:  Family of Iraq veteran forms nonprofit center in D.C. to research unexplained illnesses
• 5-26-14 Entomology Today:  This Memorial Day, We Salute the Military Entomologists
• 5-24-14 Washington Post:  These wounded U.S. vets wanted closure. They found it back in Afghanistan.
• 5-23-14 Stars and Stripes:  DOD to save $60M by dropping recreational, excess sites in Europe
• 5-22-14 Naval Support Activity Bethesda Journal:  USU Research Days, Commencement Bring Educational Community Together
• 5-22-14 Washington Post:  Capital Business -- Montgomery County makes first cybersecurity investment in small firm poached from Virginia
• 5-22-14 Washington Post:  Fastest-growing American cities are mostly in the West. And then there’s Gaithersburg, Md.
• 5-21-14 Bethesda Now:  Green Mile Sidewalk Construction To Start In June
• 5-21-14 WJLA/ABC7 TV:  Chevy Chase to spend $804,000 in attempt to block Purple Line construction
• 5-21-14 Washington Post:  Cold Calculations: How a backlogged VA determines the true cost of war -- This story is the sixth in a multi-part "After the Wars" series examining the effects of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars on the 2.6 million American troops who served and fought.
• 5-21-14 The Hill:  A new BRAC round would boost readiness, save billions -- Commentary by William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy
• 5-20-14 Association of Defense Communities:  OEA Offering Support for Communities Dealing with Reductions in Defense Spending
• 5-19-14 Gazette.Net:  Road work on Rockville Pike slated to start soon -- Cedar Lane intersection work part of BRAC traffic mitigation
• 5-19-14 Montgomery County Government:  Leggett Joins Lieutenant Governor Brown, Federal Delegation, Local and State Dignitaries to Celebrate Start of Cedar Lane Intersection Improvement; BRAC Project Will Help Reduce Bethesda Traffic Congestion
  • 5-19-14 WJLA/ABC7 TV / Newscbannel 8:  (VIDEO REPORT)  Traffic relief on the way for Maryland commuters
  • 5-19-14 Bethesda Now:  Officials Celebrate Green Light For Bethesda Intersection Project
  • 5-19-14 Maryland State Highway Administration:  Lt. Governor Brown, Maryland Federal Delegation, County Executive Leggett “Green Light” MD 355 Intersection Improvement Project and Other 2014 Statewide BRAC Transportation Solutions -- Nearly $70 Million in State & Federal Transportation Funds Move Seven BRAC Transportation Improvement Projects Forward in 2014
• 5-19-14 Bethesda Now:  Photos Show Progress Of Bethesda Harris Teeter Project
• 5-19-14 Gazette.Net:  Town of Chevy Chase approves grant to fight Purple Line -- Friends of the Capital Crescent Trail to commission environmental study
• 5-17-14 Bethesda Now:  Planners Provide Hints Of Where Bethesda Development, Parks Are Headed
• 5-17-14 Baltimore Sun:  Gov. O'Malley vetoes wind project delay -- Congressional delegation warned project threatens military base
• 5-16-14 Bethesda Now:  Cedar Lane Closure Set For June 6 In Bethesda
• 5-16-14 Bethesda Now:  Capital Bikeshare Use Increasing This Spring, County Says
• 5-16-14 Forbes:  Congress Wastes More Money On Unneeded Military Bases Than Belgium, Sweden Or Switzerland Spend On Defense -- Commentary by Loren Thompson
• 5-16-14 Fort Detrick Standard:  Students Explore Neuroscience at Museum’s Brain Awareness Week
• 5-15-14 Washingtonian Magazine:  First Person: Rehabilitating Wounded Soldiers at Walter Reed -- Cosmo lost his legs to an explosion in Afghanistan. It was my job to get him walking on artificial limbs. But what if he didn’t want to? -- Adapted from "Run, Don’t Walk: The Curious and Chaotic Life of a Physical Therapist Inside Walter Reed Army Medical Center"
• 5-15-14 National Geographic:  The Dogs of War -- Out in front of America’s troops, combat canines and their handlers lead the way onto the most dangerous battlefields on Earth
• 5-15-14 Naval Support Activity Bethesda/Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  USU Corner -- Every year, the Uniform Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), the Department of Defense’s only military medical university, conducts a military medical field practicum (MMFP) exercise that serves as one of the final graded examinations for fourth year tri-service military medical students.
• 5-15-14 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Bike commuters have their own parking problems
• 5-15-14 Bethesda Now:  Town Of Chevy Chase To Pay For Purple Line Environmental Study
• 5-15-14 Bethesda Now:  Civic Activism Brings New Crosswalk To Huntington Parkway
• 5-15-14 Baltimore Business Journal:  The NSA wants fewer employees driving themselves to work during rush hour
• 5-15-14 Washington Post:  Below Montgomery County, work continues on little-noticed 5.3-mile water tunnel project
• 5-15-14 Washington Post:  Why costs often creep on public-works projects
• 5-14-14 Washington Business Journal:  B.F. Saul's big play in Rockville: A $62 million development deal
• 5-14-14 Gazette.Net:  Planning continues for Georgia Avenue Bus Rapid Transit -- Workshop to be held at Kennedy High School
• 5-14-14 Gazette.Net:  County cyclists invited to celebrate Bike to Work Day
• 5-14-14 Gazette.Net: (Capital News Service):  Defense companies target Maryland members of Congress
• 5-14-14 Gazette.Net:  Montgomery College’s Germantown campus morphing into science/tech park -- Renovations planned for outdated lab space
• 5-14-14 Gazette.Net:  Commuters in Clarksburg slow to catch free bus ride to Germantown MARC station -- County promoting free bus
• 5-14-14 WTOP 103.5 FM:  (AUDIO REPORT)  Invisible wounds: Couple struggles with scars of war
• 5-14-14 Washington Post:  The region’s possible transit future, in one map -- All Opinions Are Local blog commentary by Dan Malouff, an Arlington County transportation planner who blogs independently at BeyondDC.com
• 5-13-14 Washington Business Journal:  Here's why the GSA wants to build a sprawling cyber security campus
• 5-13-14 Bethesda Now:  Less Than 1 Percent Of Montgomery Commuters Bike To Work
• 5-12-14 Gazette.Net:  Purple Line to improve residents’ job access, researcher says -- Long Branch employment prospects to grow more than those in Bethesda
• 5-12-14 U.S. Department of Defense:  DOD Needs New Base Closure Round, Senior Official Says
• 5-10-14 Baltimore Sun:  Developers file $37 million federal suit over Fort Detrick contamination -- Say high TCE levels in groundwater have thwarted residential development
• 5-8-14 Bethesda Now:  Here We Go Again: White Flint, North Bethesda Or Something Else?
• 5-8-14 Bethesda Now:  What Should Your Bethesda Neighborhood Look Like?
• 5-8-14 Virginia Connection Newspapers:  Easing Overcrowded Roadway -- Commentary by Congressman Jim Moran
• 5-8-14 Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  Children of Wounded Warriors Will Remain at Bethesda Elementary
• 5-8-14 National Defense Industrial Association:  Information Technology Remains the Bane of Pentagon Procurement
• 5-7-14 Washington Business Journal:  Montgomery County office vacancy incentive program lands first tenant
• 5-7-14 Gazette.Net:  Bikers, walkers need to share the road, advocates say -- Better education one way to reduce collisions, advocates say
• 5-7-14 Gazette.Net:  Council leaning toward transit options instead of M-83 -- Transportation issue factor in upcoming election
• 5-7-14 StreetsBlog:  Mapping How Far You Can Bike Without Breaking a Sweat
• 5-7-14 Maryland Capital Gazette:  $2M grant could 'jump start' Odenton Town Center -- Federal funds sought to plan upgrades around MARC station
• 5-7-14 Baltimore Sun/Harford Aegis:  Chickens a threat to Aberdeen Proving Ground? City council member says they could be
• 5-7-14 WJLA/ABC7 TV:  3D printers build staggering potential in medical field -- At Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, a 3D printing lab creates all kinds of things – from shoulder parts to prosthetic ear molds to titanium cranial palates for soldiers wounded in IED blasts.
• 5-7-14 Wall Street Journal:  A Healing Art -- I recently witnessed the healing effects of music first hand. As part of their "National Initiative for Arts and Health in the Military," I was invited by Americans for the Arts to visit the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and participate in "Stages of Healing."
• 5-7-14 U.S. Department of Defense:  Warriors skate to success
• 5-7-14 ROLL CALL:  Pentagon Must Follow Lengthy Process to Shutter Bases, Cut Excess Military Infrastructure
  • 5-7-14 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  (AUDIO REPORT)  John Conger, Acting Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Installations and Environment -- Today is markup day for the National Defense Authorization Act in the House Armed Services Committee. Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) has already killed the idea of approving a round of Base Realignment and Closure this year. But the Defense Department sees the potential for some progress on another round of BRAC. John Conger, acting deputy undersecretary of Defense for installations and environment, talked to In Depth with Francis Rose about the effort the Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-Wash.) is making to push toward a BRAC round.
  • 5-6-14 ROLL CALL:  House Bill Lays Foundation for Future Base Closings
  • 5-6-14 Tacoma (WA) News Tribune:  Rep. Smith's base-realignment plan takes aim at cost overruns from 2005 commission
  • 5-6-14 Breaking Defense:  HASC Chair McKeon: Sorry, Mr. Smith, No BRAC
• 5-6-14 Baltimore Magazine:  Climbing: Maryland Moves To 7th in Bicycle-Friendly Ranking -- State improves four slots in annual League of American Bicyclists' report
• 5-6-14 Washington Post:  In pain and forced to use a wheelchair, a young woman opts to amputate her clubfeet
• 5-6-14 Bethesda Now:  ‘South Bethesda’ Residents Wary Of Master Plan Redevelopment
• 5-6-14 Officing Today:  DesignLab Tests Emerging Concepts in Office and Business Center Design
• 5-5-15 Bethesda Now:  New Renderings Show How Woodmont View Will Fit In On Battery Lane
• 5-5-15 Baltimore Business Journal:  Chesapeake Innovation Center hosts programs to help veterans, women become cyber entrepreneurs
• 5-5-14 Washington Post:  O’Malley to decide whether some wind turbine projects should be delayed until 2015
• 5-4-14 Washington Post:  Delivering on the promise of the Purple Line -- Commentary by Gerrit Knaap, director of the University of Maryland National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education
  • 5-4-14 Washington Post:  Robert McCartney Metro column -- New book by Purple Line activist Ben Ross blames suburban sprawl on status-seeking
• 5-3-14 Montgomery County Dept. of Transportation:  Pedestrian crosswalk stings by MCPD underway
• 5-3-14 Frederick News-Post:   Testing of groundwater at Detrick hits snag -- Community update postponed for Area B landfill
• 5-2-14 Montgomery County Serving Together: May 10, 2014 Veterans  Resource and Volunteer Fair
• 5-2-14 Bethesda Now:  County Has No Plans To Redevelop Bethesda Parking Lots
• 5-2-14 Baltimore Sun:  Howard County, Columbia Association consider bike share program for Howard
• 5-2-14 Washington Post:  Soldier who lost leg in Afghanistan vowed ‘I will return.’ This is what it took to get back
• 5-2-14 Washington Post:  Fence in the Purple Line’s path prompts Montgomery to fine trail advocate $500
• 5-2-14 WTOP 103.5 FM:  D.C. named one of the 10 most polluted cities in U.S.
• 5-1-14 WTTG FOX5 TV:  Quadruple amputee veteran visits D.C. school
• 5-1-14 Bethesda Now:  MoCo In Need Of More Pedestrian Safety Volunteers
• 5-1-14 Bethesda Now:  Bethesda Is The ‘Richest Small City’ In America, Says Website
• 5-1-14 Frederick News-Post:  Local residents air concerns at Fort Detrick biosafety expo
  
   
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