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September, 2014 News
- 9-30-14 Gazette.Net: Bethesda to host Armed Forces Appreciation Day -- Irish restaurant recognizes Armed Forces Appreciation Day
- 9-30-14 Gazette.Net: FDA showcases latest $300M piece of the pie in White Oak -- Officials cite work of community leader in dedication ceremony
- 9-30-14 Washington Post: Purple Line’s estimated construction cost rises to $2.45 billion
- 9-30-14 U.S. Department of Defense: Woodson Praises Advances in Military Medicine
- 9-30-14 Bethesda Now: Purple Line Officials Discuss Effects Of Failed Apex Building Deal
- 9-30-14 Bethesda Now: Metro Removes Bike Lockers, Newspaper Boxes Before Escalator Project
- 9-30-14 WTOP 103.5 FM: Manassas Park wounded warrior receives specially adapted home
- 9-30-14 Washington Business Journal: Children's National already has some great labs. So why is it drooling over Walter Reed space?
- 9-30-14 Bethesda Now: Supporters Keep Pushing MoCo For Pedestrian-Friendly Road Design
- 9-29-14 Bethesda Magazine: SHA: Old Georgetown Road Needs Lanes to Handle Traffic Volume -- Department chief says controversial White Flint road design is a phase-in approach and grid network needs to be established before lanes can be reduced on roadway
- 9-25-14 Bethesda Magazine: Old Georgetown Road Design Causes Controversy -- White Flint nonprofit says design is inhospitable to pedestrians and bikers and doesn’t conform to the sector plan
- 9-30-14 Washington Post: Purple Line supporters drafting ‘community compact’ for 16-mile route
- 9-30-14 WFMD 930 AM (Frederick): New Report Finds No Evidence Of Cancer Clusters At Ft. Detrick
- 9-30-14 Washington Technology: 7 keys to DOD's huge health opportunity
- 9-29-14 Baltimore Business Journal: Maryland community colleges get $15 million for cyber job training -- Montgomery College in Rockville leads the consortium
- 9-29-14 San Antonio Business Journal: San Antonio’s Health Science Center unveils new Military Health Institute
- 9-29-14 Bethesda Magazine: Patient Exposed to Ebola Arrives at NIH in Bethesda -- American physician was volunteering at an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone
- 9-28-14 Marine Link: Shock Test Machine Saves Navy Big Bucks
- 9-28-14 Maryland Reporter.com: Still searching for solution to shortfall in transportation funding
- 9-28-14 The Olympian (Olympia, WA): DOD says it’s saving hundreds of millions of dollars because of joint basing; GAO remains unconvinced
- 9-26-14 NextGov: Bob Brewin's What's Brewin' blog -- No New VA Patient Schedule System Until 2020
- 9-26-14 Baltimore Sun / Harford Aegis: 22nd Chemical Battalion, in place since WWII, could leave Aberdeen -- Army is considering unit's future, but any departure before 2016 said to be unlikely
- 9-26-14 Fast Company: Could This Toy Persuade Military Men To Do Yoga? -- Yoga Joes are like G.I. Joes, but in yoga poses
- 9-25-14 Belvoir Eagle (Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation): New public meetings announced for Route 1 Multimodal Transportation Alternatives Analysis
- 9-25-14 Naval Support Activity-Bethesda Journal: Commander’s Column -- Last March I provided a construction update for key projects aboard Naval Support Activity Bethesda. Many of those projects have been completed and new/continuation projects have begun, so it’s time for another update.
- 9-24-14 PBS NewsHour (Associated Press): New report claims gender gaps for U.S. military health care and other services
- 9-24-14 FCW: Health IT -- DOD health agency embraces data standardization
- 9-24-14 Southern Maryland News: Land use study to bring county, town, base closer -- Consultant gathering data for later public input
- 9-24-14 Bethesda Magazine: Redevelopment of Church Getting Closer -- Christ Evangelical Lutheran names construction firm, financier
- 9-24-14 Gazette.Net: Hopkins names director of Rockville campus -- Johns Hopkins University named Leslie Ford Weber director of campus, government and community affairs for Montgomery County in Rockville
- 9-24-14 Gazette.Net: Developer purchases land for new Bethesda police station -- Rugby Avenue station will replace current building on Wisconsin Avenue
- 9-24-14 Gazette.Net: Proposed fence riles neighbors of Bethesda park -- Some fear losing scarce open space
- 9-24-14 Bethesda Now: Residents Pose Tough Questions At Westbard Kickoff Meeting
- 9-24-14 Bethesda Now: Assisted Living Facility Proposed For Woodmont Triangle
- 9-24-14 Gazette.Net: They’re walkin’, and talkin’, for a safer Bethesda -- Group wants to make Bethesda more pedestrian friendly
- 9-23-14 Washington Post: Dr. Gridlock: Metro escalator replacement worries some riders -- The job at Bethesda station is set to begin in October and could continue for two and a half years
- 9-23-14 Yahoo News: Inside The High-Tech Effort To Prevent The US Navy From Running Over Endangered Whales
- 9-23-14 Bethesda Now: Rock Creek Hills School Opponents Might Be Out Of Moves
- 9-23-14 AFCEA Signal Online: Cyber Has a New Look in the U.S. Army
- 9-23-14 Tacome (WA) News Tribune: Sources: Army drawdown could lead to closure of two-star medical headquarters at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) -- If approved, the plan would build two-star medical headquarters in the following locations (in addition to the one in Hawaii): Fort Belvoir, Va., to manage Army medicine for East Coast Army posts that fall under the command of the XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, N.C. That includes the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, N.Y. and the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky....
- 9-23-14 United States Army: Screenings, response plans can prevent suicide
- 9-23-14 Washington Post: An American sculptor’s masks restored French soldiers disfigured in World War I -- Wars still inflict such injuries. The face remains vulnerable, said Navy Capt. Gerald T. Grant, an expert at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. And facial prostheses, as they are now known, are still crafted for disfigured soldiers.
- 9-22-14 Montgomery County Dept. of Transportation: Leggett Seeks Applicants for Friendship Heights and Silver Spring Transportation Management District Advisory Committees
- 9-22-14 Gazette.Net: Officials work on zoning for new White Oak plan -- Public hearing slated for Tuesday before County Council
- 9-22-14 Washington Business Journal: Numbers don't lie: Virginia commercial real estate is hurting
- 9-22-14 WTOP 103.5 FM: Maryland and Virginia communities among best places to live -- 6. Columbia & Ellicott City, Md.
- 9-21-14 Government Executive Defense One: Review Finds Few Efficiences in the Pentagon’s Joint Basing Plan
- 9-21-14 Washington Post: After the Wars: Criminal or victim? -- Communities weigh how to deal with battle-scarred soldiers who do wrong after coming home
- 9-21-14 Washington Post: Nats or Orioles? In Washington, some families are a hardball house divided
- 9-20-14 Washington Post: North-White-Rock-Bethesda-Flint-Ville. It’s time to name this place -- Commentary by Lindsay Hoffman, Executive Director, Friends of White Flint
- 9-19-14 Bethesda Now: Town Of Chevy Chase Says Purple Line Ridership Analysis Should Be Public
- 9-19-14 Gazette.Net: Planning Board approves Silver Spring company’s expansion project --United Therapeutics hopes to begin construction on ‘net zero’ building next year
- 9-19-14 Maryland Capital Gazette: Route 175 project still needs about $30 million
- 9-19-14 WTOP 103.5 FM: Tough sledding: Wounded Warriors hit the ice
- 9-19-14 U.S. Department of Defense: Navy Surgeon General Discusses Signature Wounds of War
- 9-18-14 Bethesda Now: Bethesda Metro Escalator Replacement Could Last More Than 2 Years
- 9-18-14 Bethesda Now: New Census Numbers Show MoCo Continues To Grow
- 9-18-14 Cecil Whig: Turnout low for APG planning workshop
- 9-18-14 Naval Support Activity-Bethesda Journal: Code Green Exercise Sept. 25 to Test Preparedness
- 9-18-14 WTOP 103.5 FM: Traffic expected to change in the next 25 years
- 9-18-14 Baltimore Sun: Aberdeen, Army move ahead with plan for new APG water source
- 9-17-14 Government Executive: Erosion of DOD’s Technical Workforce Has Broad Consequences -- Commentary by Rear Adm. Michael Moran, commander of the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division and assistant commander for test and evaluation at Naval Air Systems Command, and Scott O’Neil, executive director of the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division and director for research and engineering at Naval Air Systems Command
- 9-17-14 Offshore, magazine of offshore technology, oil and gas E&P operations: Helical strake testing suggests path to VIV solution -- All of the experiments were conducted in the Rotating Arm Basin at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Carderock, Maryland
- 9-17-14 Bethesda Now: Developer Closes On Spot For New Bethesda Police Station
- 9-17-14 Gazette.Net: Westbard planning process begins in Bethesda -- Food truck rally scheduled at Bethesda shopping center
- 9-17-14 Baltimore Sun: Residents, stakeholders hear about land use study planned for APG
- 9-16-14 Bethesda Now: Mixed-Use Development Coming To Grosvenor Metro Station
- 9-16-14 Washington Post: U.S. military will lead $750 million fight against Ebola in West Africa -- High-level planning by top officials from the CDC, the Pentagon, the State Department, USAID and the National Institutes of Health has been taking place for some time about options for a U.S. response....
- 9-16-14 Federal Times: DoD health records effort 'not about technology'
- 9-15-14 Bethesda Now: Neighbors Object To Plans For Daycare In Bethesda Park
- 9-15-14 Bethesda Now: Supporters Honor Capital Crescent Trail Visionary
- 9-15-14 Washington Post: A virus hunter faces the big one: Ebola -- “It’s like he was trying single-handedly to stop this outbreak,” says Randal Schoepp, chief of the U.S. Army’s applied diagnostics branch at Fort Detrick, Md., who has worked with Fair in West Africa.
- 9-15-14 Washington Post: Obama push to hire veterans into federal jobs spurs resentment
- 9-12-14 Gazette.Net: Don’t like the name White Flint? How about Rocksy? -- New brand name for North Bethesda area could be chosen within weeks
- 9-12-14 Bethesda Magazine: Bethesda Fire Department Details Plans for Station 6 -- Four different ideas were presented from a residential building to doing nothing
- 9-12-14 Bethesda Magazine: Chevy Chase Named Most Affluent Town in Country -- Business Insider found the local enclave has a median income over $250,000
- 9-12-14 Gazette.Net: New apartment complexes boost downtown Wheaton -- The George, a 12-story tower, among the latest to line Georgia Avenue
- 9-12-14 Baltimore Sun: Surrounding areas to study land use relationship with Aberdeen Proving Ground -- Joint effort kicks off with workshops in Harford, Cecil, Kent counties Sept. 16-17
- 9-12-14 Baltimore Sun: More improvements to Route 40 in Aberdeen coming next year
- 9-11-14 Washington Post: Why driving through Bethesda will get worse before it gets better -- In about a year, construction will begin on a pedestrian tunnel beneath Wisconsin that will carry people between the Walter Reed campus and the bus stops at the Medical Center Metro station across the street. At the same time, farther south on Wisconsin, work will begin to reconfigure a major intersection where Wisconsin converges with Jones Bridge, Center Drive and Woodmont Avenue.
- 9-11-14 Washington Post: Purple Line cost estimate rises by $56 million, to a total $2.43 billion
- 9-11-14 Bethesda Now: UPDATED: Utility Work To Cause Road Closures In Woodmont Triangle
- 9-10-14 U.S. Department of Defense: Official: Military Input Keeps Medical Care Top-Notch
- 9-10-14 Bethesda Magazine: Zoning Change Would Only Affect Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad Site -- It would allow rescue squad to apply for zoning to develop up to 280 apartments on its site, but critics of change say it’s “a special law for a special case.”
- 9-10-14 Gazette.Net: Rockville called vital to bus rapid transit system -- Three major routes would run through city
- 9-10-14 Frederick News-Post: Fort Detrick Business Development Group formed
- 9-9-14 Washington Business Journal: Children's National makes big play for Walter Reed site, could reopen campus by 2015
- 9-9-14 Association of Defense Communities: $10M TIGER Grant to Reduce Congestion outside Ft. Meade
- 9-9-14 Bethesda Now: Luke’s Wings Raises More Than $30,000 For Wounded Warriors
- 9-8-14 Federal News Radio 1500 AM: DoD's strategy doesn't match its budget
- 9-8-14 San Antonio Express-News: As military shrinks, its footprint is still big in San Antonio
- 9-8-14 Bethesda Magazine: Planners Support Bank Proposal at Current Shell Location in Downtown Bethesda -- TD Bank is planning to build a bank at the intersection of Old Georgetown Road and Woodmont Avenue
- 9-7-14 Washington Post: Affluent Montgomery County has pockets of poverty, mostly in the east
- 9-6-14 Washington Post: More deadly pathogens, toxins found improperly stored in NIH and FDA labs
- 9-6-14 Baltimore Sun: Maryland ethics board reviewing contractor's Purple Line role, MTA says
- 9-6-14 Washington Post: Army surveillance balloons stationed in Maryland wont include spy cameras
- 9-5-14 Bethesda Now: Advisory Board Wants County to Make Some One-Way Streets Two-Way
- 9-4-14 FCW: DOD health record procurement to 'lead the way' on interoperability
- 9-4-14 Defense One: The Pentagon Is $200 Billion Short of What It ‘Needs’ for FY15, Study Shows
- 9-4-14 United States Army: Open Campus initiative allows open collaboration for Army Research Laboratory
- 9-3-14 Bethesda Now: Ride On Bus Route Rerouted Around Cedar Lane
- 9-3-14 Bethesda Magazine: Bethesda Fire Department Schedules Two Meetings to Discuss Station Redevelopment -- Public meetings scheduled for Sept. 11 and Sept. 18 at fire station
- 9-3-14 Baltimore Sun: State reports few new transportation projects, after last year's long list -- Annual draft budget report outlines $280 million in new projects
- 9-2-14 Washington Post: Landmark Tastee diner a comforting constant as ‘new’ Bethesda grows around it
- 9-2-14 New York Times: Smaller Military Hospitals Said to Put Patients at Risk
- 9-2-14 Bethesda Magazine: Planning Staff Recommends Approval of Expanded Montgomery Lane Apartment Project -- Proposal calls for 120 units, more than double the 48 previously approved in 2009
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