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November, 2014 News
- 11-30-14 Fayetteville (NC) Observer: Intrepid Spirit centers focus on brain injuries
- 11-30-14 Washington Post: U.S. effort to help build homegrown streetcar manufacturer falls short -- Despite federal support, a firm that built 18 cars for D.C., Tucson and Portland seems stuck in reverse
- 11-29-14 FOX News: The Mighty Moms of Walter Reed: Caring for children wounded in war
- 11-29-14 Baltimore Sun: Ruppersberger nearing end of run on House intel panel -- After 12 years on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence — including four as its top-ranked Democrat — Baltimore County Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger is facing a term limit that will likely end his time on the influential panel when the new Congress is sworn in next year.
- 11-28-14 Bethesda Now: First Experimental Ebola Vaccine Appears To Work, NIH Says
- 11-28-14 NIH Publishes Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on Master Plan Update; 30-day waiting, comment period begins
- 11-28-14 Bethesda Now: New Building Proposed For Bethesda Avenue
- 11-26-14 Federal News Radio 1500 AM: Art therapy opens up creative world for recovering soldier
- 11-26-14 Gazette.Net: Montgomery County income tax revenue falls $96 million short -- Officials: Federal sequestration partly to blame, spending could be affected
- 11-26-14 Fort Belvoir Eagle: Fort Belvoir gate policy improves security on post
- 11-25-14 Bethesda Now: Council Sets More Pedestrian-Friendly Rules For MoCo’s Urban Roads
- 11-25-14 Montgomery County Sentinel: Parents question safety of proposed Purple Line stop
- 11-25-14 Washington Post: Washington area seeks to break free from federal spending -- Mandated program cuts leaving gaping holes in revenue projections from Annapolis to Richmond
- 11-25-14 Baltimore Business Journal: Outgoing Howard County exec Ken Ulman: 'We may have to think more about bus rapid transit'
- 11-25-14 United States Air Force: Construction continues on largest ambulatory care center in the DOD
- 11-24-14 Gazette.Net: Rockville, Gaithersburg to meet with county on bus rapid transit plan -- Meeting to focus on routes planned for Md. 355
- 11-24-14 Bethesda Now: Westbard Plan Could Fix Bethesda’s Unseen Stream
- 11-24-14 Washington Business Journal: Leggett pitches 'development ombudsman' for Montgomery County
- 11-23-14 Cecil Whig: Study: Potential APG reductions move forward -- The Army is currently reviewing options to potentially shed up to 70,000 positions in order to meet goals set by spending levels mandated by the Budget Control Act of 2011. Officials have previously stated that APG could face as many as 4,300 job cuts at the installation of 22,000. Fort Meade in Maryland, as well as Fort Belvoir, Fort Lee and Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia also face possible reductions
- 11-23-14 The Hill: Military families blitz Congress over proposed benefits cuts
- 11-22-14 Washington Post: Leggett: Montgomery faces sharp limits on new spending
- 11-22-14 Southern Maryland News: Fort Belvoir Commuter Cebnter: New Program for Those Commuting to Fort Belvoir From Southern Maryland -- Makes Ridesharing Easier, Faster, and Smarter for Tens of Thousands of D.C. Area Residents
- 11-21-14 Baltimore Business Journal: Future in 3-D: How Aberdeen Proving Ground kicked off the 3-D trend in Maryland
- 11-21-14 Bethesda Now: Connecticut Avenue Improvements To Continue In Chevy Chase
- 11-21-14 Washington Post: Special Forces soldier, paralyzed in combat, opening rehab center
- 11-21-14 Washington Business Journal: (VIDEO REPORT) Dr. Kurt Newman of Children's National Health System on the status of the Walter Reed project
- 11-21-14 U.S. News & World Report University Directory: Military Medical School Students Endure Trial by Fire
- 11-21-14 Montgomery County Dept. of Economic Development: Montgomery County Launches Life Sciences Impact Grant Program to Retain Jobs and Stimulate Growth; $5,000 - 25,000 Grants Available for Business and Product Development
- 11-21-14 Bethesda Magazine: Bethesda Company Receives FDA Clearance for Brain Injury Monitoring Tool -- Device is designed to quickly assess possible head injuries in patients
- 11-20-14 U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi MD: Researchers test insect-inspired robots
- 11-20-14 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics: Army Research Lab to Host Open House for New Open Campus Initiative
- 11-20-14 Naval Support Activity Bethesda Journal: WRNMMC Leadership Hosts Town Halls Joint Commission, Construction Projects, Ebola Virus Preparedness Discussed During Meetings
- 11-20-14 Bethesda Now: New White Flint Post Office To Open Monday
- 11-19-14 Bethesda Now: Landscaping Effort Could Make White Flint Bloom
- 11-19-14 U.S. Department of Defense: USO to Exhibit Wounded Warriors’ Art Therapy
- 11-19-14 Bethesda Magazine: Breaking Down the Westbard Sector Plan Concept -- Details in the preliminary plan are causing concern in the Westbard community
- 11-19-14 Frederick News-Post: Few details available about Fort Detrick labs' biosafety sweeps -- In August, the White House sent a memo to the federal government’s deputy secretaries regarding biosecurity and biosafety. The memo came two months after dozens of employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta were accidentally potentially exposed to live anthrax bacteria. The CDC also announced a month after the potential exposure that two vials in a Food and Drug Administration storage room in Bethesda contained live smallpox virus.
- 11-19-14 Bethesda Now: Parks Announces Plowing Pilot Program For Capital Crescent Trail
- 11-19-14 Bethesda Magazine: Some Confused About Where to Park Along Woodglen Drive Cycle Track -- Issue surrounding new cycle track came up at Tuesday’s White Flint meeting
- 11-19-14 BayNet.com: Study finds Indian Head Tech Park property 'unsuitable'
- 11-18-14 Bethesda Now: Future Of Bethesda’s Metro Center Plaza Could Revive Old Controversy
- 11-18-14 Bethesda Now: Bethesda Once Again Named The Most Educated Place In America
- 11-18-14 Washington Post: Five steps to doom for Arlington streetcars
- 11-18-14 U.S. Army Research Laboratory: Army research team earns $500,000 research grant in Head Health Challenge II
- 11-18-14 Bethesda Magazine: New Name for White Flint District May be Presented Next Month -- Resident representatives concerned that developers are ignoring their input in choosing a name
- 11-18-14 Bethesda Magazine: Additional Designs Released for $1 Million-plus Quarry Springs Condos -- The River Road project on the Bethesda-Potomac line is expected to be completed by the end of 2015
- 11-18-14 Baltimore Business Journal: Long Red Line delay, slow growth likely in Maryland's future, economist says
- 11-18-14 WTOP 103.5 FM: Report: Blame Uncle Sam for congestion on your commute
- 11-18-14 Maryland Capital Gazette: Schuh reappoints two department heads, names military specialist
- 11-17-14 Gazette.Net: Capital Crescent Trail at a crossroads -- Officials worry about aboveground route in downtown Bethesda
- 11-17-14 Gazette.Net: Work progressing on proposed Corridor Cities Transitway linking Shady Grove and Metropolitan Grove -- First phase would serve Gaithersburg
- 11-17-14 Association of Defense Communities: Pentagon Will Request a New BRAC Round in FY’16 Budget, Hagel Indicates
- 11-17-14 Washington Post: Barbara Mikulski, first female chair of Senate Appropriations, returns to minority
- 11-16-14 Washington Post: Riding light rail and streetcars into better communities -- Commentary by Christopher Leinberger, Charles Bendit distinguished scholar and research professor of urban real estate at George Washington University’s School of Business and president of LOCUS (a project of Smart Growth America)
- 11-15-14 Washington Post: Where We Live: Maplewood-Alta Vista is a streetcar suburb in Bethesda that motors on -- In a Bethesda neighborhood that began as a streetcar suburb, the traffic is a reminder of the current century
- 11-15-14 Frederick News-Post: Medical waste from Ebola treatment at NIH processed at Fort Detrick
- 11-15-14 Washington Post: Clarksburg builders file suit, charging that MoCo improperly limited home construction
- 11-15-14 Cecil Whig: Susquehanna Workforce Network (SWN) signs partnership with APG for job seekers
- 11-14-14 Fort Detrick Standard: Blast Injury Program Leverages Expertise to Protect Against TBI
- 11-14-14 Washington Post: Transitway or toll lanes: How will Hogan relieve traffic in I-270 corridor?
- 11-13-14 Naval Support Activity Bethesda Journal: NSA Bethesda Construction Update
- 11-13-14 Wall Street Journal: Dengue Fever Researchers in Military Weigh Infecting Volunteers -- military scientists are considering resurrecting a research program that would infect healthy people with dengue fever, the potentially deadly mosquito-borne disease that has no known drug treatment
- 11-13-14 Washington Business Journal: Here's why BRAC and other Pentagon cuts Congress won't OK make sense -- Congress has not authorized a Base Realignment And Closure round since 2005. To the Pentagon's second in command, that's like the largest private sector companies being forced to maintain 24 percent of excess overhead
- 11-12-14 Military Times: New protocols at Walter Reed reduce medical errors
- 11-12-14 Washington Post: Timing of Hogan decision on Purple Line could cost Maryland -- If the governor-elect waits until after Jan. 9 to make a decision, it could end up costing the state $8 million to cancel bids
- 11-12-14 New York Times: Risk Model Seen as Reducing Military Suicides
- 11-12-14 Government Executive: One in Six Iraq, Afghanistan Veterans Might Have PTSD -- It could be decades before we know the depth of veterans' health problems
- 11-11-14 Bethesda Now: Nonprofit Working To Make Sure No Soldier Spends Christmas Alone
- 11-11-14 Air Force Times: For pilots, a high-tech hearing aid -- Pilots may soon be able to more clearly distinguish the multitude of important aural signals, voices and sounds competing for their attention in the cockpit
- 11-11-14 Baltimore Sun: Monument to women in military dedicated -- The Maryland Women in Military Service Monument in Cecil County will be dedicated during a ceremony on Tuesday
- 11-11-14 Baltimore Sun: Kathy Bates listened to Barbara Mikulski clips to learn Baltimore accent for "American Horror Story" role
- 11-10-14 Washington Post: Montgomery County to hire three new department heads: County Executive Isiah Leggett is expected to begin filling major posts in the coming weeks -- Leggett is expected to fill directorships in the departments of transportation, environmental protection, and housing and community development by early next year, replacing top officials who have been with him since the beginning of his first term in 2007.
- 11-10-14 Bethesda Now: Woodmont Plaza Gets A New Look At Bethesda Row -- One of Bethesda's most visible open spaces has a fresh look this week, a welcome sign for some who say the area has been a wasted asset
- 11-10-14 WHAG TV (Hagerstown): Extended Bus Routes For Western Marylanders -- The Maryland Transit Administration is extending bus routes in Western Maryland to accommodate area commuters
- 11-10-14 WTOP 103.5 FM (Associated Press): Md. plaza to be dedicated to veterans -- Montgomery County elected officials will dedicate a new plaza and light an eternal flame in honor of Maryland's war veterans
- 11-10-14 Defense One: How Three Veterans Uncovered the Iraq War's Biggest Untold Story -- Abandoned Iraqi chemical weapons wounded at least 600 U.S. soldiers. Telling their stories would be no easy feat.
- 11-9-14 Washington Post: One medical school’s ultimate test carries all the chaos of the battlefield -- At the nation’s military medical school in Bethesda, the final exam is full of explosions, screaming and blood
- 11-9-14 Washington Post: Five myths about military suicides -- It may not be linked to combat
- 11-9-14 New York Daily News: Disabled vets get a small piece of D.C.: American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial opened to little fanfare, but is a beautiful monument for wounded warriors -- Nation’s first tribute to disabled vets and their families was 2 decades in the making
- 11-8-14 Washington Post: Is Bethesda building worth more without McDonald’s in it? -- It turns out companies aren't that interested in renting space above the Golden Arches
- 11-7-14 WJLA/ABC7 TV: Downtown Bethesda construction projects frustrate locals -- Bethesda Regional Services Director Ken Hartman says the current pain is for long-term gain....
- 11-7-14 Bethesda Now: State Might Give MoCo Control Of Old Georgetown Road In White Flint -- Community and developer efforts for a more pedestrian- and bike-friendly Old Georgetown Road in White Flint appear close to getting some results
- 11-7-14 Bethesda Now: Cycle Tracks Could Be Key Part Of Capital Crescent Trail Through Bethesda -- Buffered cycle tracks could help Montgomery County transportation officials make the best of a dicey situation when it comes to a Capital Crescent Trail
- 11-7-14 NBC News: TODAY gets a rare exclusive look inside US Army’s Ebola lab in Fort Detrick, Maryland
- 11-7-14 Delmarva Now: Did Defense Department blow Somerset wind deal? -- Somerset Commissioners hit snag on wind turbine issue after objection by Dept. of Defense
- 11-6-14 Naval Support Activity Bethesda Journal: How Do You Commute? Take Annual Commuter Survey
- 11-6-14 TIME Magazine: Photo Essay -- Life After War: James Nachtwey’s Photographs From Walter Reed -- The TIME contract photographer visited the National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.
- 11-6-14 Bethesda Urban Partnership: New Circulator App Now Available
- 11-6-14 Bethesda Magazine: Planners Considering Recommendations to Make Norfolk Avenue into More Pedestrian-Friendly Street -- Changes could make it easier for outdoor dining space to spill into the street or create more space for local events
- 11-6-14 Gazette.Net: Chevy Chase keeping a close eye on downtown Bethesda development -- Creating parks, maintaining infrastructure seen as key to quality of life
- 11-6-14 Gazette.Net: Montgomery leadership to remain much the same -- Questions raised about future of projects under Hogan
- 11-6-14 Bethesda Now: Town Of Chevy Chase Agrees To Fund DNA Search For Endangered Species -- The Town of Chevy Chase Council on Wednesday agreed to fund a $20,000 search for the DNA of an endangered creek critter in streams and wetlands near the proposed Purple Line route
- 11-6-14 New York Times: More Than 600 Reported Chemical Exposure in Iraq, Pentagon Acknowledges -- Defense officials said they failed to recognize the scope of the reports from Americans who served in Iraq, or to offer them adequate care
- 11-5-14 Council on Foreign Relations: Janine Davidson military affairs column -- Congress: Can the Hill Finally Pass the 2015 Defense Budget?
- 11-4-14 U.S. Army Research Laboratory: Army's corporate research laboratory guides technology with sharper focus -- The U.S. Army Research Laboratory released its Science and Technology Campaign Plans for 2015 - 2035, Nov. 4, 2014, to support strategic land power dominance for the Army of 2030 and beyond
- 11-1-14 Washington Post: Bethesda townhouses tout convenience for those on the go, amenities that rise above -- Little Falls Place in Bethesda is close to the Metro and bike trails, and each townhouse features a rooftop terrace
- 11-1-14 Washington Post: Mini-D.C.’s: A small-city boom revitalizes downtowns once left for dead -- Walkable, urban mini-D.C.s are popping up nationwide, with Frederick, Md., a notable example
- 11-1-14 Washington Post: Pentagon’s plans for a spy service to rival the CIA have been pared back
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