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October 2012 News
- 10-31-12 Military.com: Plans to Build Specialized TBI Centers Underway
- 10-31-12 WTOP 103.5 FM: Where to donate leftover Halloween candy -- It's becoming a D.C. area tradition to donate extra Halloween candy to U.S. troops stationed overseas. Rebecca Kahlenberg is executive director of MoverMoms, a Bethesda-based non-profit. Six years ago, she came up with the idea for a massive Halloween candy collection called "Treats-4-Troops."
- 10-31-12 Gazette.Net: NIH details future expansion at Poolesville animal center -- Development study focuses on agricultural roots
- 10-28-12 Washington Examiner: Hopkins wins dispute over Germantown farm
- 10-26-12 Southern Maryland Newspapers Online: Pax River ending shuttle bus service to Bethesda
- 10-26-12 Washington Examiner: Montgomery planning board OKs White Flint plaza project despite school fight
- 10-25-12 Bethesda Now: Developer Details Old Georgetown Road Project
- 10-25-12 Walter Reed NMMC Journal: Commander's Column: Commuter Survey -- At most places it’s not something people think about regularly, but because of our location and the limited amount of space we have to work with, parking and traffic are a big deal and anything we can do to decrease the number of single occupancy vehicles coming to the base is important. To that end, we’ve invested a lot of time and effort into promoting alternative methods of getting to work. These include carpooling, public transportation, biking and walking.
- 10-25-12 Walter Reed NMMC Journal: Job Classification Review for DoD Civilians Focus of Town Hall
- 10-24-12 DOD Military Health System News Release: Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Outlines New Focus -- There will be three significant areas of focus - consistent with the Deputy Secretary of Defense's decision in March. The first is to establish a Defense Health Agency that will have the structure and authority to drive common clinical and business processes across the enterprise. The second focus area involves Multi-Service markets, and to provide additional authority in areas such as budget, work force and work load to a single market manager in designated markets. And finally, with the conclusion of the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) activities in the National Capital Region, we will transition to a more permanent organizational structure for the NCR. This will be done by establishing a NCR Medical Directorate within the Defense Health Agency, into which we will transition Joint Task Force CAPMED.
- 10-24-12 Washington Post: (VIDEO) On Leadership: Charles Scoville on learning from Walter Reed’s amputees
- 10-24-12 Bethesda Now: White Flint Sketch Shows Scope of Development
- 10-24-12 Annapolis Capital Gazette: Town hall meeting to focus on jobs at Fort Meade
- 10-23-12 Annapolis Capital Gazette: Fort Meade grows beyond BRAC
- 10-23-12 Washington Post: BRAC traffic in Alexandria: No ‘Carmageddon’
- 10-22-12 Washington Post: Wounded warrior retreat hits construction fundraising goal
- 10-22-12 Bethesda Patch: Bethesda Named ‘Bicycle-Friendly Community’
- 10-22-12 Bethesda Now: Broad Coalition Sets Hopes For Chevy Chase Lake
- 10-19-12 WRC/NBC4-TV: (VIDEO) Heading Off NIH Expansion Traffic Congestion -- Traffic congestion is common in front of the NIH complex in Bethesda. Now there's work going on to ease the traffic headaches before they get worse
- 10-19-12 Gazette.Net: Planning board considers expansions at NIH, NSA Bethesda -- Commissioner: ‘If I lived in this neighborhood, my main priority would be to get them to add no new parking’
- 10-19-12 Bethesda Now: County, Planning Officials Express Angst Over NIH, Walter Reed Redevelopment
- 10-19-12 Bethesda Patch: County BRAC Coordinator: Rockville Pike Traffic 'Dramatically Worse' -- A Navy traffic study doesn't offer a complete picture as to how traffic has worsened near Walter Reed Bethesda since the BRAC transition last year, according to county BRAC coordinator Phil Alperson
- 10-19-12 Bethesda Patch: Planning Board Commissioner Blasts NIH Parking Plan -- Bethesda campus, which employs 20,000, may see the addition of 3,000 workers over the next 20 years -- and planners want fewer employees driving to work
- 10-19-12 Gazette.Net: Testing to begin Monday at Forest Glen Annex contaminated site -- Carcinogens suspected at the Silver Spring location
- 10-19-12 Gazette.Net: Chevy Chase Lake public hearing sees hours of testimony -- Residents, public officials speak out about Chevy Chase Lake Sector Plan
- 10-19-12 Old Town Alexandria Patch: BRAC and Traffic: One Year and Counting -- City official calls transportation situation at Mark Center “a success story.” -- There are 3,800 parking spaces available at Mark Center. In December, Congress capped parking at the BRAC complex at 2,000 spaces as part of the 2012 Omnibus Appropriations Bill at the request U.S. Rep. Jim Moran (D-8th). Moran, along with Virginia Sens. Mark Warner and Jim Webb, worked to implement the parking cap until congestion around the site could be mitigated
- 10-19-12 Joint Base Andrews Gazette: Compromise reached on Andrews' growth
- 10-19-12 Bethesda Now: Part Two of Our Conversation With Ike Leggett
- 10-18-12 Bethesda Now: A Conversation With Ike Leggett -- This is part one of an interview with Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett, who spoke to Bethesda Now about traffic, White Flint development, the Second District police station and a number of other issues in Bethesda and the county
- 10-18-12 Washington Post: Next influx at NIH, Walter Reed requires traffic-control plan, Montgomery says
- 10-18-12 Walter Reed NMMC Journal: Make Your Voice Heard, with Commuter Feedback Survey
- 10-18-12 North County (San Diego) Times: Navy medicine fights rising costs -- Surgeon general visits SD as department grapples with chronic disease, budget
- 10-17-12 Potomac Patch: NIH, NSA Bethesda Campus Plans Set For Review Thursday -- A Chevy Chase Lake Sector Plan public hearing is also on the Montgomery County Planning Board agenda
- 10-17-12 Washington Examiner: NIH plans to move 3,000 employees to Bethesda campus -- Across the street from NIH, the military plans to replace five existing hospital buildings with a five-story building at Walter Reed, allowing the military to convert double-occupancy hospital rooms to single-occupancy rooms
- 10-17-12 Bethesda Now: Pooks Hill Project Takes Back Seat, Could Be Delayed For 18 Months
- 10-17-12 Edgewater-Davidsonville (MD) Patch: Davidsonville Park and Ride Set to Double in Size -- The State Highway Administration is scheduled to start a project next spring that would see 240 more parking spots come to the 210-space park and ride
- 10-17-12 Deadline Hollywood: ABC Buys Drama Inspired By Walter Reed Medical Center, Legal Female Buddy Show
- 10-17-12 Explore Howard.com: Find out about job opportunities at Fort Meade
- 10-17-12 Bethesda Now: Busy Bethesda Agenda Tomorrow At Planning Board
- 10-17-12 Bethesda Now: Bethesda, Medical Center Metro Stations Closed This Weekend
- 10-17-12 Gazette.Net: Community, Army investigate contamination at Forest Glen Annex -- Restoration Advisory Board to meet Oct. 18
- 10-17-12 Gazette.Net: Walkway planned along Purple Line for Capital Crescent Trail tunnel in Bethesda -- Five- to 7-foot wide path will not allow bike riding
- 10-16-12 Bethesda Now: Council Introduces White Flint Committee
- 10-16-12 Gazette.Net: Bumper to Bumper: New Gaithersburg community makes way for rapid bus transit -- Corridor Cities Transitway still in developmental stages
- 10-16-12 Annapolis Capital Gazette: West County Business: Area is growing fast
- 10-16-12 Gazette.Net: Planning board to review NIH, NSA Bethesda expansions and Chevy Chase Lake Sector Plan -- Items scheduled for Oct. 18
- 10-16-12 Colesville Patch: Tentative Locations Detailed for Downcounty Bikeshare Stations -- Some concerned about bike safety ahead of implementation of proposed bikeshare system, detailed at a Monday advisory board meeting
- 10-16-12 Bethesda Now: Bethesda Residents Criticize Bikeshare
- 10-15-12 Washington Post: Capital Business -- At Walter Reed site, officials push for a town center
- 10-15-12 Bethesda Now: Utility Work To Cause Lane Closures
- 10-14-12 Washington Examiner: Montgomery County not ready for 'gold' bus network, study finds
- 10-12-12 Washington Examiner: Surprise! D.C. congestion among worst in U.S.
- 10-12-12 Washington Post: Future Purple Line station in Bethesda would include trail access
- 10-11-12 Washington Post: Developers break ground on central Montgomery’s last large tract
- 10-11-12 Inside NoVA.com: Fort Belvoir commander talks transportation
- 10-11-12 Governing: Military Communities Brace for Sequestration Cuts
- 10-11-12 Walter Reed NMMC Journal: Modified Access to Building 17 Parking Garage
- 10-11-12 Washington Examiner: Montgomery lawmakers worry Purple Line has no future
- 10-10-12 U.S. Dept. of Defense News Release: Medical Intelligence Center Monitors Health Threats
- 10-10-12 Gazette.Net: Remember why the traffic’s bad in Bethesda -- Perhaps when waiting for the light near the hospital has anyone taken the time to look around and see the increased number of brave young men missing limbs that this facility strives to take care of?
- 10-9-12 Bethesda Now: County Announces New Car Sharing Locations
- 10-9-12 Association of Defense Communities: Md. Group Seeks Proposals for University Research Park Feasibility Study, Business Plan
- 10-8-12 Washington Business Journal: Bethesda intelligence campus plan advances
- 10-8-12 Montgomery County Government News Release: Go Montgomery -- Montgomery County Receives Grant for BRAC-Related Transportation Improvements
- 10-8-12 Montgomery County Government News Release: Go Montgomery -- Construction Alert in Bethesda: BRAC-Related Improvements Underway Through Early November
- 10-8-12 Gazette.Net: Pooks Hill Minor Master Plan Amendment will explore traffic, connectivity -- Planners will seek public input
- 10-6-12 Gazette.Net: Proposed expansion to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center criticized -- Residents voice concerns about traffic
- 10-6-12 Bethesda Now: Few Attend Walter Reed Expansion Public Hearing
- 10-6-12 Bethesda Now: 8300 Wisconsin Ave. Owners Seeking Environmental Cleanup
- 10-6-12 Gazette.Net: Sequestration threatens many Maryland businesses -- Economists say effects of substantial budget cuts will be felt not just by government contractors, but businesses as well
- 10-5-12 Washington Examiner: Navy says medical center expansion won't add much traffic
- 10-5-12 Bethesda Patch: Disaster Response Drill Planned Friday At Walter Reed Bethesda -- "Exercise Hekla" will have minimal impact on traffic near the base, county officials said
- 10-5-12 Bethesda Now: County: ‘Minimal’ Traffic Impact From Walter Reed Mock Disaster Drill
- 10-4-12 Bethesda Now: Planning Board Discusses Pooks Hill Apartment Proposal
- 10-4-12 FOX News: 6 promising advances to save soldiers' brains
- 10-4-12 Walter Reed NMMC Journal: Commuter Fair Brings Alternative Transportation Opportunities
- 10-4-12 Walter Reed NMMC Journal: WRNMMC Participates in First National Kidney Swap
- 10-3-12 Montgomery County Dept. of Transportation News Release: U.S. Department of the Navy public hearings October 4 and 11: Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Walter Reed Campus
- 10-2-12 Bloomberg News: Intelligence Exits Washington, Vacancies Rise: Mortgages
- 10-2-12 Washington Post: An app lets users study Einstein’s brain; magazine explores longevity research
- 10-1-12 Gazette.Net: Montgomery council approves zoning change for Battery Lane site in Bethesda -- Elrich: Project would decrease affordable housing
- 10-1-12 Association of Defense Communities: Navy Wounded Warrior Program Shifts to CNIC
- 10-1-12 Association of Defense Communities: Opposition Grows to Privatizing Exchanges
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