IN THE NEWS
Please report any bad links
October 2011 News
- 10-31-11 WRC / NBC4-TV: DOD Employees Face Fines for Illegal Parking -- Alexandria residents complain of DOD employees parking in their neighborhoods
- 10-31-11 Montgomery County Government News Release: County Council to Hold Public Hearing on Funding for Route 355 Crossing at Medical Center
- 10-31-11 Military.com: Belvoir Marks Completion of Med Facilities
- 10-31-11 Washington Examiner: Laurel Mall to be demolished for new town center -- And with Fort Meade nearby, developers want to attract new workers being shifted to the military base.
- 10-28-11 U.S. Department of Defense News Release: Belvoir Hospital Shows U.S. Loves Troops, Stanley Says
- 10-28-11 Gazette.Net: Maryland gas tax hike faces rough road, approval -- State says more than $12 billion in projects beckon -- More than 30 Baltimore bridges are deficient and the city’s roads need repair, Rawlings-Blake said, while Leggett emphasized the added transportation burden on the Bethesda area from the Base Realignment and Closure relocation.
- 10-28-11 Baltimore Business Journal: Little relief for BRAC congestion in Maryland
- 10-28-11 Washington Post: Capital Crescent Trail’s costs along future Purple Line rise
- 10-27-11 Fort Detrick Standard: Around Fort Detrick -- Forest Glen Access Control Points
- 10-27-11 Annapolis Capital: Editorial -- Our Say: Defense spending cuts should be a warning to county
- 10-26-11 Colesville Patch: Transportation and Gridlock Lead Concerns for White Oak Master Plan -- Residents wonder if more development will bring more traffic to the area
- 10-26-11 Gazette.Net: Bethesda homeowners fear losing yard to road project -- Rockville Pike widening a worry for those in Locust Hills
- 10-26-11 WTOP 103.5 FM: Montgomery County Council takes up faulty escalators
- 10-26-11 Washington Examiner: MontCo can't build itself out of gridlock, council told
- 10-26-11 Gazette.Net: Touring production at Round House examines life after war -- “ReEntry” tells the stories of veterans as they return from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
- 10-26-11 San Antonio Express-News: Medical Education and Training Campus (METC) Medical Logistics Team gets nat'l award
- 10-25-11 Association of Defense Communities: BRAC 2017 or Sooner?
- 10-25-11 Montgomery County Department of Transportation: Council Public Hearing November 1: Supplemental appropriation for MD355 Crossing at Medical Center
- 10-25-11 Washington Post: Federal transportation funding mandates — the coming Capitol Hill battle -- The looming Capitol Hill battle over transportation priorities in a budget-slashing era may have found its lightning rod issue: bike paths, pedestrian walkways and wildflowers planted by the side of the road.
- 10-24-11 Washington Post: Montgomery traffic stable, but still bad, report says
- 10-24-11 Washington Post: Downtown Bethesda braces for 3 years of tighter parking and more traffic
- 10-24-11 Washington Post: Capital Business -- For White Flint developers, time to urbanize Rockville Pike is now -- As real estate developers in Montgomery County pitch their plans to build new projects and neighborhoods, many use a similar refrain: It’ll be like Bethesda Row.
- 10-24-11 Washington Post: Capital Business -- Fort Meade BRAC moves complete, but development negotiations linger
- 10-22-11 Washington Post: Montgomery looks to busways to ease traffic
- 10-22-11 San Antonio Express-News: Years of combat are felt in San Antonio
- 10-21-11 Gazette.Net: Wal-Mart plans store in Rockville -- 80,000-square-foot location would replace part of strip mall
- 10-21-11 WMAL Radio: MoCo Competing with NoVa for BRAC Money
- 10-21-11 Military.com: Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) Celebrates Joint Basing Milestone
- 10-20-11 Gazette.Net: Montgomery County, state vie for $90 million for Bethesda BRAC projects -- Local congestion relief vies for piece of $300 million pie
- 10-20-11 Walter Reed NNMC Journal: NSA Bethesda Bids Malanoski Farewell, Welcomes Kass
- 10-20-11 Walter Reed NNMC Journal: Commanding Officer's Column -- Walter Reed National Military Medical Center is the Quarterdeck for all of military medicine
- 10-19-11 Huffington Post: Beyond The Battlefield: Unprepared For Wave Of Severely Wounded, Bureaucracy Still Catching Up
- 10-18-11 Washington Examiner: Feds to host public meeting on widening Route 1 near Fort Belvoir
- 10-18-11 Montgomery County Gpvernment News Release: “Maryland Transportation Infrastructure Needs” -- County Executive Isiah Leggett Statement before the Mary;and House Ways and Means, Appropriations, and Economic Matters Committees and Senate Budget and Tax Committee
- 10-18-11 WTOP 103.5 FM: (AUDIO REPORT) Md. Co. Execs: Business tax or feds for Purple Line funding? -- Leggett also said traffic in the county is going to get worse before it gets better. Roughly 1 million patients annually are expected at the new Bethesda Naval Center, for which the county does not expect to create any additional parking spaces. The executive encourages, instead, patients and employees to turn to mass transit
- 10-18-11 WTOP 103.5 FM: Poll: 4 in 10 area commuters spend more than 1 hr. in car
- 10-18-11 Montgomery County Gpvernment News Release: Public Invited to Free Resource Fair for Military Personnel, Veterans and Families
- 10-17-11 Bethesda Patch: Support Builds for Bethesda BikeShare -- Local leaders and community groups voice their support for the program
- 10-17-11 Washington Business Journal: Darcy project to start by year end in Bethesda -- StonebridgeCarras was expecting to take until early next year to start construction on the project, called Lot 31, due to moving utility lines for the Capital Crescent Trail. But Firstenberg, at a groundbreaking for an unrelated office building in the District’s NoMa neighborhood Monday, said StonebridgeCarras now hopes to break ground by November or December.
- 10-17-11 Government Executive: Flooded Walter Reed clinics to reopen Friday
- 10-17-11 Inside NoVA.com: BRAC management committee disolves, leaves partnerships in place
- 10-15-11 Washington Post (Associated Press): Lincoln murder bullet and other morbid oddities resettled at new military museum in Md.
- 10-15-11 Washington Post: 'Gargantuan large’ investment in infrastructure needed, experts say
- 10-14-11 WTOP 103.5 FM: WTOP's Bob Marbourg: Few options for 'fall crush' of traffic
- 10-14-11 New York Times: At war -- A War Injury With a Big Impact: The Plain Old Headache
- 10-13-11 National Public Radio: Rebuilding Soldiers Transformed By War Injuries
- 10-13-11 Walter Reed NMMC Journal: Kass to Relieve Malanoski as NSAB Commanding Officer
- 10-13-11 Walter Reed NMMC Journal: National Museum of Health and Medicine Reopens at Forest Glen
- 10-13-11 San Antonio Express-News: Military leaders cut ribbon on new SAMMC tower
- 10-13-11 Fort Detrick Standard: Welcome to IMCOM, Installation Management Command
- 10-13-11 Bel Air Patch: Beyond BRAC: Are Local Job Candidates Qualified to Fill New APG Jobs? -- Planning officials worry that higher education efforts are falling short
- 10-13-11 Dumfries-Stafford-Woodbridge (VA) PotomacLocal.com: BRAC Committee Releases Final Report
- 10-12-11 Government Executive: Water main break at new Walter Reed leaves three clinics 'unusable'
- 10-12-11 Gazette.Net: Some Walter Reed National Military Medical Center employees say parking plan is unfair -- Support staff says only top brass get spots at Bethesda military hospital
- 10-12-11 San Antonio Express-News: City applies for federal transportation grant
- 10-11-11 Gazette.Net: Bethesda streetscape project costs soar -- Road beautification could run $23 million
- 10-11-11 Washington Post: Walter Reed National Military Medical Center tests cancer rehabilitation model
- 10-10-11 Bethesda Patch: County, State Want $90 Million For Bethesda BRAC Improvements -- Bethesda is among several communities vying for $300 million in federal transportation funds
- 10-10-11 Annapolis Capital: Arundel Mills area continues to grow -- New retailers, jobs, development coming to mall
- 10-10-11 Forbes: Why Virginia's Become Mecca For Military Contractors
- 10-9-11 Inside NoVA.com: BRAC brings healthcare closer to home
- 10-9-11 Washington Examiner: Montgomery, Fairfax apply for millions in BRAC funding
- 10-7-11 Center Maryland: Mobility: the ultimate jobs issue -- Commentary by Donald C. Fry is president and CEO of the Greater Baltimore Committee
- 10-7-11 San Antonio Express-News: New ‘CoTo' makes SAMMC largest DoD hospital
- 10-7-11 Washington Examiner: Leggett wants $68m from feds for BRAC
- 10-6-11 Association of Defense Communities: Washington Community Applies for BRAC Transportation Funds at Lewis-McChord
- 10-6-11 Walter Reed NMMC Journal: Vanpools Now Available at NSA Bethesda
- 10-6-11 Walter Reed NMMC Journal: Chief of Staff for Integration & Transition -- ongoing projects currently underway
- 10-6-11 Washington Post (Associated Press): Army medical site in Silver Spring, Md., holding community meeting to explain its mission
- 10-5-11 Tacoma (WA) News Tribune: Lakewood seeks $5.7M to improve Madigan/I-5 traffic -- The City of Lakewood will apply for a $5.7 million federal grant to make short-term fixes to a congested interchange that connects Madigan Army Medical Center and Interstate 5
- 10-5-11 Annapolis Capital: Fort Meade center helps soldiers ease into civilian work force
- 10-5-11 Washington Post: The American military and civilians, worlds apart
- 10-5-11 Huffington Post: Walter Reed Reuse Plan Forum: Discussion Planned For Wednesday
- 10-5-11 Washington Examiner: Montgomery Council votes to cut construction spending
- 10-4-11 Montgomery County Council News Release: Montgomery Council Employees Collecting Items for Injured Military Personnel
- 10-4-11 Severn Patch: Fort Meade an Economic Engine for West Anne Arundel County -- BRAC is only the beginning of an anticipated growth surge that will continue to fuel opportunities for businesses and individuals for years
- 10-3-11 Baltimore Sun/Explore Harford.com: BRAC helps keep Harford economy afloat, economist says
- 10-3-11 TIME: Over 700,000 New Vets Seek Health Care, Half with Mental Problems
- 10-2-11 Washington Examiner: Hospital employees lose parking at Bethesda facility
- 10-2-11 Washington Post: John Kelly's Washington column -- The medical museum and all its moving (body) parts
- 10-2-11 WTOP 103.5 FM: BRAC increasing traffic jams near Fort Belvoir
- September, 2011 news
- August, 2011 news
- July, 2011 news
- June, 2011 news
- May, 2011 news
- April, 2011 news
- March, 2011 news
- February, 2011 news
- January, 2011 news
- December, 2010 news
- November 16 - November 30, 2010 news
- November 1 - November 15, 2010 news
- October 13 -October 31, 2010 news
- July 24-October 12, 2010 news
- May 21-July 23, 2010 news
- April 7 - May 20, 2010 news
- January 28 - April 6, 2010 news
- Nov. 17, 2009 - Jan. 27, 2010 news
- September 22-November 16, 2009 news
- July 23-September 21, 2009 news
- June 7-July 22, 2009 news
- April 17-June 6, 2009 news
- March-April 16, 2009 News
- January-February 2009 news
- mid-October-December 2008 news
- September - mid-October 2008 news
- July-August 2008 news
- May-June 2008 news
- March-April 2008 news
- January-February 2008 news
- November-December 2007 news
- late October 2007 news
- mid-October 2007 news
- early October 2007 news
- August-September 2007 news
- January-July 2007 news
Please report any bad links.
