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November, 2017 News
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- 11-30-17 WMATA: Metro wants your feedback on proposed transit facility changes at Bethesda, Silver Spring and New Carrollton, to improve access to the Maryland Transit Administration's Purple Line project
- 11-30-17 Montgomery County Dept. of Transportation: MCDOT Wins Grants for Four Bikeshare Stations and Safe Routes to School Program
- 11-30-17 Montgomery Community Media: Another Dockless Bikeshare Company Comes to Silver Spring
- 11-30-17 Bethesda Magazine: Proposal for Apartment Complex near Westfield Montgomery Mall Wins Planning Approval -- Project would redevelop site of closed Ourisman Ford dealership
- 11-30-17 Military.com: Poll: Military Retirees Unaware of Upcoming Tricare Changes
- 11-30-17 National Institutes of Health: NIH and partners launch HIV vaccine efficacy study -- Public-private partnership begins clinical trial in sub-Saharan Africa.
- 11-29-17 WTOP 103.5 FM: AAA: Commuters take liking to ICC with nearly 30M trips last year
- 11-29-17 WTOP 103.5 FM: Community leaders pledge growth along Purple Line
- 11-28-17 Bethesda Magazine: Land Purchase Cost for New Bethesda Park Might Be Reduced -- Agreement with state, sale of development rights could cut $8.5 million price in half -- The location at 4801 Bethesda Ave. is next to where Bethesda’s new Purple Line station is being constructed in the former Capital Crescent Trail tunnel underneath the Apex Building
- 11-27-17 Fast Company Co.Design: The Architecture Of 21st-Century Intelligence -- The modern intelligence agency hides in plain sight.
- 11-27-17 Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS): Transformation of Combat Casualty Care, Advances in Military Healthcare Focus of New Book: "Out of the Crucible: How the U.S. Military Transformed Combat Casualty Care in Iraq and Afghanistan”
- 11-27-17 Baltimore Sun: Maryland readies to use federal financing tool before GOP tax plan can end it -- For the Purple Line project, the state issued $313 million in private activity bonds for the 16-mile light rail line that will connect Bethesda to New Carrollton. Eliminating the bonds “would have a significant impact,” said Sen. Ben Cardin
- 11-26-17 Washington Post: Maryland transportation secretary raises new objections to LaHood plan for Metro
- 11-26-17 Washington Post: Montgomery shares designs for Bus Rapid Transit stations on U.S. 29
- 11-26-17 Stars and Stripes: Army borrows from Navy playbook to treat wounded patients in combat zones
- 11-24-17 New York Times: Vietnam: The Chemical War
- 11-23-17 WTOP 103.5 FM: Maryland focuses on next step in plans to widen Beltway, I-270
- 11-23-17 WTOP 103.5 FM: Md. transportation chief: Lawsuits mean delay in Purple Line opening
- 11-21-17 Bethesda Magazine: Business Notes: Four Projects Expected To Bring Office Space Boom to Bethesda -- Two new retailers open at Clarksburg Premium Outlets; state loses 5,500 jobs in October
- 11-21-17 Bethesda Magazine: Planning Board To Vote Next Week on ZOM Apartment Project in Bethesda -- Project would overhaul block of Arlington Road
- 11-21-17 Bethesda Magazine: Plans Brewing To Replace 7-Eleven, EagleBank Building in Bethesda with Residential Tower -- Developer to share information at Dec. 6 community meeting
- 11-21-17 Bethesda Magazine: State Senator Aims To Ease Pain of Purple Line Construction for Silver Spring Small Businesses -- Eclectic shops that line Bonifant Street expected to be affected
- 11-20-17 Washington Post: A guide for luring Amazon to your city — and what not to do -- Commentary by Mitch Daniels, president of Purdue University and former governor of Indiana
- 11-19-17 Stars and Stripes: Surgeons sitting idly during deployments may be leaving military patients at risk
- 11-19-17 WTOP 103.5 FM: Transurban: 495 Express Lanes save drivers millions of hours -- “A driver from (I)-95 to (I)-66 might say they save time, but a driver who heads north of the Dulles Toll Road would perhaps beg to differ,” WTOP Traffic’s Dave Dildine says
- 11-18-17 Military Times: Warrior Canine Connection seeks answers after contract is halted at Walter Reed, Fort Belvoir
- 11-17-17 WBAL/NBC4 TV: Central Maryland earns D grade for transportation -- Transportation Alliance releases findings
- 11-17-17 MCDOT: MD 355 Crossing Project Update: CONTROLLED BLAST & DAYTIME LANE CLOSURE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21
- 11-17-17 Bethesda Magazine: Developer Shares Plans for Artena Bethesda Apartment Project on Wisconsin Avenue -- Residential complex will be about 200 feet tall, contain ground-level retail
- 11-16-17 FactCheck.org: Trump Didn’t Cut Canine Program -- Q: Did President Donald Trump shut down a service dog training program for veterans? A: No. Walter Reed National Military Medical Center ended its contract with the program and told us that the president was not a factor
- 11-16-17 Bethesda Magazine: Transportation Secretary Shares More Details of Proposed I-270, Capital Beltway Widening Project -- Pete Rahn said American Legion Bridge will be improved, expects proposals from private companies in two years
- 11-16-17 Washington Post: Will the Purple Line make people healthier? -- previous studies have found that people who live near public transportation are generally more physically active because they often walk or bike to and from the transit stop, as well as to shop and make other trips
- 11-16-17 WTOP 103.5 FM: Review finds telework, mass transit, work close to home best ways to ease DC traffic -- Living closer to work or getting thousands more people to telework or ride transit were among the highest scoring ideas for the D.C. area’s future in a new regional review that suggests a new outer crossing of the Potomac River northwest of the clogged American Legion Bridge would do little to help regional congestion
- 11-15-17 Bethesda Magazine: Parks System Announces River Road Park Project Along Capital Crescent Trail -- Project partners plan to beautify, add seating at two-acre site
- 11-15-17 WTOP 103.5 FM: Metro funding is ‘No. 1 priority,’ Montgomery Co. lawmakers say
- 11-15-17 Washington Business Journal: Washington Adventist Hospital’s new White Oak campus has a name -- The $404 million Washington Adventist Hospital campus will be called the Adventist HealthCare White Oak Medical Center when it opens in the summer of 2019
- 11-14-17 Washington Post: Much of Virginia likes LaHood plan to replace Metro board, but D.C. and Md. have concerns, conditions
- 11-14-17 Bethesda Magazine: Israeli Tech Firm Chooses Bethesda for U.S. Headquarters -- Sesame Enable’s smartphone can be operated through head movements -- Sesame Enable’s headquarters, which opened in August, is near Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Rockville Pike
- 11-14-17 Baltimore Sun/Harford Aegis: Maryland transportation secretary reviews Route 22 upgrades with Harford leaders -- Federal funding has covered the majority of the cost of the project, which has been designated a BRAC improvement project to facilitate the anticipated growth of Aberdeen Proving Ground during the 2005-2011 BRAC process
- 11-13-17 Frederick News-Post: Army ordered to provide medical care to subjects of experiments at Edgewood, Fort Detrick
- 11-13-17 MCDOT: MD 355 Crossing Project Update: CONTROLLED BLAST NOV. 16 / LANE CLOSURES DAYTIME THURSDAY & FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16 & 17
- 11-13-17 SNOPES.com: President Trump Abruptly Shuts Down Dogs for Wounded Warriors Program? -- Sketchy articles about the Warrior Canine Connection and a canceled contract with Walter Reed Medical Center omitted key details..
- 11-11-17 WTOP 103.5 FM: Veterinarian gave therapy dog group booted from Walter Reed clean bill of health after ‘letter of concern’
- 11-11-17 WTOP 103.5 FM: Letter details complaints with program that pairs service dogs with vets -- An April 3rd letter from a military contract officer laid out several complaints about the performance of Warrior Canine Connection, the group that trains veterans to train service dogs for their fellow disabled vets.
- 11-9-17 WTOP 103.5 FM: Popular therapy dog program at Walter Reed contract halted over ‘patient care’
- 11-8-17 WTOP 103.5 FM: Program that pairs service dogs with veterans booted from Fort Belvoir and Walter Reed
- 11-13-17 Bethesda Magazine: Scores of Protestors March From Bethesda Church to Cemetery Site -- Demonstrators continue pressing county to protect, memorialize historic graveyard
- 11-12-17 New York Times: Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. to Its Core -- A serial leak of the agency’s cyberweapons has damaged morale, slowed intelligence operations and resulted in hacking attacks on businesses and civilians worldwide.
- 11-10-17 Fairfax County Times: Traffic safety campaign aims to make D.C. area residents ‘Street Smart’
- 11-10-17 Bethesda Magazine: School Notes: Board of Ed Members Say New School Site Selection Should Begin in WJ Cluster
- 11-9-17 Bethesda Magazine: Planning Board Signs Off on Land Purchase for New Park Near Bethesda Row -- County Council will now consider the $8.5 million acquisition
- 11-9-17 Bethesda Magazine: Metro Seeks Input on How Bethesda, Silver Spring Stations Should Connect with Purple Line Platforms -- Transit operator released detailed drawings to show planned connections
- 11-9-17 Bethesda Magazine: AC Hotel by Marriott Could Arrive in Downtown Bethesda As Soon as 2021 -- StonebridgeCarras said 219-room hotel will occupy about a quarter of mixed-use project
- 11-9-17 Montgomery Councilmember Hans Riemer: Montgomery County becomes first in the State to have green pavement markings on State highways
- 11-9-17 WAMU 88.5 FM: Who Has The Worst Drivers? Maryland, D.C. Or Virginia? The Answer May Lie With You
- 11-8-17 U.S. Department of Defense: USNS Comfort Restocks to Continue Post-Hurricane Care
- 11-8-17 Baltimore Sun: Md.: a transportation innovator?
- 11-8-17 WTOP 103.5 FM: Program that pairs service dogs with veterans booted from Fort Belvoir and Walter Reed
- 11-7-17 WUNC 91.5 FM (Chapel Hill, NC): Military Cities Strive to Protect Themselves From Possible Future Base Closings -- Though the federal government has no current plans to downsize the number of military bases, local communities aren't taking any chances
- 11-7-17 Maryland Reporter (Capital News Service): New Faces Part 1: Maryland’s changing faces often are from other countries -- Maryland’s foreign-born population has grown dramatically. Of the 10 most diverse cities in America, three are located in the state: Gaithersburg, Germantown and Frederick, according to a 2016 WalletHub study
- 11-6-17 Bethesda Magazine: County Parks System Looks To Buy Bethesda Property For Capital Crescent Public Park -- Planning board will review proposal to purchase 0.4 acres for $8.5 million
- 11-6-17 Defense One: It Took Comfort 39 Days to Get Pierside in Puerto Rico. That’s a National-Security Problem.
- 11-6-17 Artsy.net: How Art Is Helping Veterans Overcome PTSD
- 11-5-17 BayNet.com: How one man changed the landscape in Southern Maryland -- In 1996 the Base Realignment Act activities fostered a major consolidation of Naval Aviation Activities to Pax River that included the Research and Development function previously carried out in Warminster, PA along with activities from Trenton NJ and elsewhere. The Patuxent River Naval Air Station had become a world class campus known not only for Test and Evaluation of Aircraft but as a state of the art engineering complex that was unique worldwide.
- 11-4-17 Washington Post: Welcome to the D.C. suburbs, where the GOP tax plan could really hurt
- 11-3-17 United States Air Force: 3-D printing takes wounded warriors to a new dimension
- 11-3-17 Source of the Spring blog: Road closures starting for Purple Line construction
- 11-3-17 Baltimore Business Journal: These are Maryland's largest incubators and accelerators
- 11-3-17 U.S. Department of Defense: Maryland-based Army Reserve units train locally to deploy globally
- 11-3-17 U.S. Department of Defense: 175th Cyberspace Operations Squadron Facility Groundbreaking Ceremony
- 11-3-17 MCDOT: MD 355 Crossing Project Update -- Controlled Blasts Scheduled for MONDAY NOV. 6 AND WEDNESDAY NOV. 8
- 11-3-17 MCDOT: Ride On Public Forum to be Held on New US 29 Limited Stop Service to Begin in January
- 11-3-17 WTOP 103.5 FM: Is Metro system becoming obsolete?
- 11-3-17 Montgomery Community Media: State Officials Hear from County on Transportation Projects (Video)
- 11-3-17 Bethesda Magazine: Housing Commission Assures Protestors It Has No Current Plan To Build Near Westbard Burial Site -- Bethesda church wants historic African-American cemetery location memorialized
- 11-3-17 Joint Base Andrews Gazette: Malcolm Grow Medical Clinics and Surgery Center Parking Update
- 11-2-17 NSA Bethesda/Walter Reed NMMC Journal: Warrior Transition Brigade Kicks Off Warrior Care Month
- 11-1-17 Bethesda Magazine: County Leaders Set Sights on Eliminating Traffic Deaths, Serious Crashes By 2030 -- Two-year action plan includes 41-item checklist aimed at improving road safety
- 11-1-17 Washington Post: Metro’s decline becomes central legal question in Purple Line lawsuit appeal
- 11-1-17 Frederick News-Post: Proposed Metro budget would cost Maryland more
- 11-1-17 MCDOT: BUS RAPID TRANSIT (BRT) is coming to US 29 -- Montgomery County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) is hosting 3 Open Houses where residents can learn about the project, ask questions, and provide feedback to our staff
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