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December, 2014 News 

• 12-30-14 Montgomery Community Media:  Roshdieh: ‘Our Road Network is Essentially Built Out’
  • 12-29-14 Bethesda Now:  Acting MCDOT Director Says There’s No Room For New Roads In MoCo
• 12-30-14 U.S. Department of Defense Armed with Science blog:  Soldier Uniforms of the Future May Detect & Neutralize Bio-Threats -- Scientists have developed synthetic peptides they believe will serve as great replacements for animal-grown antibodies currently used to detect biological hazards
• 12-30-14 Washington Post:  Two children’s book authors thought military ‘brats’ deserved a new name. The brats thought otherwise.
• 12-29-14 Huffington Post:  F. Kaid Benfield blog: The Greening of a Suburban Downtown -- If planners for Bethesda, Maryland fully realize a conceptual vision now being offered to community leaders and the public, the once-quiet but now-bustling suburb's downtown could become a nationally relevant example of urban sustainability
• 12-29-14 London (UK) Daily Mail:  Robo-hawks could be heading for the front lines -- Virginia-based Darpa want hawk, and insect drones, to be able to travel through buildings independent of communication with outside operators, and without relying on GPS
• 12-29-14 United States Army:  Army Reserve Soldiers offers aid to community during crisis -- The Army Reserve is often cited as a premier community-based force, providing life-saving and life-sustaining capabilities to the citizens it serves. On Dec. 8, the Maj. Gen. Benjamin L. Hunton U.S. Army Reserve Center did just that in the aftermath of a small plane that crashed into a local neighborhood here.
• 12-28-14 Military Times:  Tricare limits on purchase of prescriptions --ricare beneficiaries who take name-brand medications for chronic conditions must fill them at a military treatment facility or through the Tricare Mail Order Pharmacy system starting Oct. 1.
• 12-26-14 Bethesda Now:  Group Calls For New Way Of Thinking In MoCo’s Transportation Department -- A group of transit advocates, business leaders and environmentalists is calling for Montgomery County to find "a visionary leader" to change the way things are
• 12-25-14 Washington Post:  Downtown Bethesda could become ‘green’ community under next 20-year growth plan
• 12-24-14 Bethesda Now:  NIH To Close Rockville Pike Entrance Starting In January -- One of six Rockville Pike entrances to the National Institutes of Health's Bethesda campus will be closed for much of 2015 starting in January
• 12-24-14 Bethesda Now:  MoCo, State Come To Agreement On Controversial Stretch Of Old Georgetown Road -- Montgomery County says it's come to an agreement with the State Highway Administration on a stretch of White Flint area road that caused controversy earlier
• 12-24-14 Bethesda Magazine:  Local Business Leaders Send Letter in Support of Purple Line to Hogan
  • 12-22-14 Bethesda Now:  Developers Push Hogan To Back Purple Line -- A group of local developers and business leaders are banding together to convince Governor-elect Larry Hogan not to kill the Purple Line
• 12-24-14 Gazette.Net:  Montgomery school board concerned about school space in Westbard plan -- Redevelopment could mean more students, new school
• 12-24-14 Gazette.Net:  Amid regional competitors, Rockville’s Town Center looks to carry on
• 12-22-14 Bethesda Now:  County Finishes Woodglen Cycle Track In Pike District
• 12-22-14 Brookings Institution:  U.S. Military Health Care Reform -- On December 19, the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence hosted an event on military health care reform. Michael O'Hanlon provides a summary of the key highlights of the discussion.
  • 12-21-14 Military Times:  Budget experts: Move Tricare beneficiaries to Obamacare -- A group of congressional budget experts suggested the Pentagon trim its health budget by outsourcing beneficiary care
• 12-22-14 United States Army:  Drawdown impacting communities significantly, environment not impacted
• 12-21-14 Association of Defense Communities:  Budget Constraints Squeeze Funding for Road Improvements at Growth Bases -- Transportation requirements at a number of installations, including needs both on-base and outside the gates, are not being met due to severe constraints in military construction funding, according to the House and Senate Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations subcommittees
• 12-20-14 New York Times:  Military Hospital Care Is Questioned; Next, Reprisals -- Physicians, nurses and medical workers at military hospitals say they have been brushed off, transferred, investigated and passed over for promotion after they pointed out problems with care
• 12-19-14 Northern Virginia Connection Newspapers:  Widening Continues On U.S. Route 1 in Mount Vernon
• 12-19-14 Baltimore Business Journal:  Missile-hunting blimps are coming to Maryland -- The Army is planning to launch the first of two missile-detecting balloons known as aerostats in the coming days over Maryland's Aberdeen Proving Ground, kicking off a three-year evaluation of the technology
• 12-19-14 Association of Defense Communities:  No Draft Required: States Increasingly Volunteer to Support Military Installations, ADC Report Reveals
• 12-18-14 Bethesda Magazine:  Daytime Lane Closures Snarl Traffic in Bethesda -- Utility work on Wisconsin Avenue causes major back-ups
• 12-18-14 Gazette.Net:  Delaney favors toll lanes for Interstate 270 -- Legislators, business leaders talk about Montgomery, Frederick corridor
• 12-18-14 Bethesda Now:  In Westbard Update, Planning Board Addresses Contentious November Meeting
• 12-18-14 Baltimore Business Journal:  $120M in federal funding approved for Naval Academy cyber center in Annapolis -- It will house new cyber warfare courses and a cyber major at the academy
• 12-18 14 Washington Post:  Montgomery freezes most hiring, purchasing to narrow budget gap
• 12-18-14 Naval Support Activity Bethesda Journal:  Strategic Plan, Icon Put Patients at Center of WRNMMC’s Mission
• 12-18 14 Washington Post:  Commission says Hogan transition team member not covered by ethics law
  • 12-17-14 Washington Post:  Transit officials looking at possible interest conflict on Hogan transition team -- The Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) said Tuesday it was looking into a possible conflict of interest involving a member of Gov.-elect Larry Hogan’s transition team who is also part of a private-sector consortium competing for the long-term contract to design, build, operate and partly finance the Purple Line light-rail project
• 12-17-14 Bethesda Magazine:  County to Conduct Woomdont Avenue Pedestrian Safety Audit -- Officials to walk downtown Bethesda road today and Thursday to determine where pedestrian safety issues may exist
• 12-17-14 Gazette.Net:  Downtown Bethesda in 20 years? Speak now -- Planners welcome online comments through Friday
• 12-16-14 Washington Post:  Maryland budget shortfall swells after latest revenue estimates -- A state panel’s forecast adds to the challenges facing Gov.-elect Larry Hogan as he prepares to take office
• 12-16-14 Washington Post:  Hogan’s comments on ‘building roads’ bode ill for the Purple Line -- he incoming governor says his priority is “building roads,” not light rail lines
  • 12-13-14 Washington Post:  Robert McCartney column -- Larry Hogan sticks to hard line on need to cut spending, taxes in Maryland
• 12-16-14 Washington Post:  White Flint Mall owners: We’re not changing the name -- Mall's owners say they support re-naming area 'Pike District,' but will keep referring to mall project as White Flint
• 12-16-14 Bethesda Magazine:  JBG Unveils Proposal for New Office Building with Retail on Bethesda Avenue
• 12-16-14 Bethesda Now:  Pooks Hill Residents Say New High Rises Would Add To Traffic Problems
• 12-16-14 Gazette.Net:  Hearing examiner recommends denial of Costco gas station in Wheaton -- Proposed gas station ‘incompatible’ with neighborhood, official says
• 12-16-14 Gazette.Net:  Montgomery County to Olney: Bus plan doesn’t mean development -- But civic association still worried about proposal’s impetus
• 12-16-14 United States Army:  Army developing robotic insects?
• 12-16-14 Washington Business Journal:  Costcos don't live forever: How Pentagon Centre will be phased out -- Pentagon City will lose its Costco, but not until most of us are old and gray. -- Pre-Great Recession and pre-BRAC (which has driven Arlington's commercial vacancy rate above 20 percent), the first phase of the Pentagon Centre makeover called for 500,000 square feet of office in two buildings. The amended site plan instead pitches 714 residential units in the first phase, also in two buildings.
• 12-15-14 Forbes:  Fisher House Foundation: Helping Military Families In Time Of Need
• 12-15-14 United States Army:  450 scientists visit Army Research Lab 'Open Campus' -- In an effort to boost collaboration with academia and industry, the Army Research Laboratory hosted about 450 scientists from universities and private companies at its open house, Dec. 9-10, 2014
• 12-15-14 Marine Log:  NAVSEA plays a key role in ambitious NASA program
• 12-15-14 Baltimore Sun:  Boosters say growing Towson needs its own development rules -- Baltimore County officials have high hopes for Towson. Citing a number of projects on the horizon and $600 million in private development, County Executive Kevin Kamenetz last year predicted the county seat would become a "destination ... even better than Bethesda, even better than Silver Spring."
• 12-13-14 Washington Post:  Hogan, visiting Montgomery, asks for bipartisan support but makes no promises -- Governor-elect is noncommittal on big-ticket items the county says it needs to encourage new businesses
• 12-12-14 New York Times:  In an Amputee Clinic, Putting on a Happy Face -- Adele Levine, a former physical therapist in the amputee clinic at Walter Reed, writes that caring for wounded soldiers at the height of the Iraq and Afghan wars felt overwhelming at times. But she says clinic life was also happy, and surprisingly, funny.
• 12-12-14 Defense One:  Military Suicides Decline, But Continued Failures Hold Lessons for Future Wars
• 12-12-14 Bethesda Now:  New Friends of White Flint Director Says Area Is In ‘Transition Phase’
• 12-12-14 Bethesda Now:  Ideas For A Bethesda “Pearl District” Pick Up Steam
• 12-12-14 Washington Post:  Battle for Purple Line heats up as Hogan prepares to become Maryland governor -- Both advocates and opponents of the light-rail plan say they will appeal to the governor-elect’s business sense.
• 12-12-14 WJZ / CBS TV13:  MARC Will Have “Bike Cars” For Passengers
• 12-12-14 Fort Detrick Standard:  Fort Detrick Upgrading Gate Access Changes -- Visitors to Fort Detrick and Forest Glen Annex will be subject to a National Crime Information Center background check
• 12-12-14 United States Army:  Soldier uniforms may one day detect, neutralize biological threats -- Scientists at the Army Research Laboratory have developed and are producing in small batches synthetic peptides they believe will serve as great replacements for animal-grown antibodies currently used to detect biological hazards
• 12-11-14 Defense Systems:  Army's new Cyber branch looking to recruit talent -- With a new career field classification, the Army wants to attract 1,200 cyber warriors from within the ranks by the end of 2016
• 12-11-14 Bethesda Now:  Veterans Of Development Battles Talk About Past, Future Of MoCo
• 12-11-14 Bethesda Now:  White Flint Mall Will Keep Its Name Despite ‘Pike District’ Recommendation
• 12-10-14 Montgomery County Dept. of Transportation:   Chief Administrative Officer Tim Firestine Announces that Al Roshdieh Will be Acting Director of the Montgomery County Department of Transportation
  • 12-2-14 Montgomery County Government:  MCDOT Director Arthur Holmes, Jr. Announces his Retirement after 12 Years of Service to Montgomery County
• 12-10-14 Montgomery County Planning Dept.:  Montgomery County Planning Department Expands Data Base of Civic and Homeowners Associations to Strengthen Community Ties
• 12-10-14 Bethesda Now:  Brookfield To Present Its Concept For Bethesda’s Metro Plaza
• 12-10-14 Bethesda Magazine:  Bicyclist Advocacy Group Sees Positives in Bike Connections Proposed in Bethesda Downtown Plan -- Concepts released Monday show plans for new bike lanes and cycle tracks in Bethesda
• 12-10-14 Washington Post:  White Flint developers hope their new branding label of ‘Pike District’ lures shops
  • 12-9-14 Bethesda Now:  Naming Study Comes Up With ‘Pike District’ As Preference For White Flint Area
• 12-10-14 WTOP 103.5 FM:  A ghost mall in White Flint
• 12-10-14 Washington Post:  For MoCo Council, a budget forecast of cloudy with a chance of spending cuts
• 12-10-14 Baltimore Sun:  Federal spending bill funds Md. transportation projects
• 12-10-14 Gazette.Net:  In Chevy Chase, a good amphipod is hard to find -- Researchers comb Rock Creek for crustaceans that could derail Purple Line
• 12-10-14 Gazette.Net:  Roads being built for Black Hills and Symmetry projects west of I-270 in north Germantown -- Century Boulevard extension enables more development
• 12-10-14 Gazette.Net:  Olney civic group questions bus rapid transit motive -- Olney association concerned about impact on community
• 12-10.14 Washington Business JOurnal:  GSA lands $35M for 'civilian cyber campus' in massive spending bill -- The General Services Administration has been earmarked $35 million in the massive omnibus spending bill to plan and design a civilian cyber campus somewhere in Greater Washington
• 12-10.14 Washington Business Journal:  District to sign deed, take ownership of its first piece of former Walter Reed campus
• 12-9-14 Association of Defense Communities:  Funding for Past BRAC Rounds Drops under Omnibus
• 12-9-14 Bethesda Magazine:  Bethesda Study Finds Too Much Retail Space in Certain Downtown Districts -- Woodmont Triangle in particular has more than 200,000 square feet of surplus retail space compared to demand
  • 12-9-14 Bethesda Now:  Retail Study Says Major Roads Are Obstacles To Bethesda Businesses
  • 12-8-14 Bethesda Magazine:  Bethesda Downtown Plan Concepts Include Increased Density, Parks Network -- Building height increases are being pitched for affordable housing, emerging retail areas and near transit s
  • 12-8-14 Bethesda Now:  Planners Propose More Development, Parks For Downtown Bethesda
  • 12-8-14 Bethesda Magazine:  Bethesda Downtown Plan Seen as “Sculpting the Clay”-- Lead planner says updated master plan will adjust Bethesda to meet present-day needs and those predicted for the next 20 years
  • 12-5-14 Bethesda Now:  Retail Study Part Of Busy Upcoming Week For Bethesda Downtown Plan
• 12-9-14 Frederick News-Post:  Fort Detrick to require background checks for all visitors -- Visitors to Fort Detrick’s Forest Glen Annex in Silver Spring will be subject to the same criminal background checks and badge requirements
• 12-8-14 Anesthesiology News:  Widespread Chronic Pain Seen in Study of U.S. Military
• 12-8-14 Bethesda Magazine:  MoCo, PG Planning Board Chairs Press Hogan on Moving Ahead with Purple Line -- Letter from Anderson, Hewlett comes as Gov.-Elect Meets with Leggett this week
• 12-8-14 Washington Post:  Capital Business -- More biotechnology manufacturing coming to Maryland as life science firms expand
• 12-7-14 Military Times:  AMERICA'S MILITARY: A force adrift -- A military reporting series examining troops' depressed morale as the Afghanistan war ends and budget cuts threaten pay raises and job security
• 12-7-14 Association of Defense Communities:  Installations, Operational Energy Posts at DOD to Merge under Authorization Bill
• 12-7-14 Army Times:  Medical command opportunities sharply increase
• 12-6-14 Washington Post:  Federal contractors now find opportunities for growth in healing, not war
• 12-6-14 Washington Post:  In cutting budget proposal, Metro freezes a project aimed at improving bus service
• 12-5-14 Gazette.Net:  Pedestrian tunnel under Rockville Pike in Bethesda expected to begin construction next year -- Project would link Medical Center Metro station and Walter Reed in Bethesda
• 12-5-14 Bethesda Now:  Cycle Track Could Be Coming To Chevy Chase Lake
• 12-5-14 Gazette.Net:  Silverman resigns as Montgomery economic development director -- Says he is leaving to pursue career in private sector
• 12-5-14 WUSA TV9:  Revealed: What's driving commuters crazy on River Road?
• 12-5-14 Washington Post:  Cost of Silver Spring Transit Center repairs jumps another $21 million
• 12-5-14 Association of Defense Communities:  Changes in Defense Bill Should Spur Community-Installation Partners
• 12-4-14 Washington Post:  Metro board starts budget process that could present hard choices
• 12-4-14 Bethesda Now:  New Census Numbers Show Bethesda Commuters Still Prefer Driving
• 12-4-14 Bethesda Now: Local Dance Academy Makes Its Case For Leasing Empty Bethesda Park Building
• 12-4-14 Bethesda Now: Two High-Rise Apartments Proposed For Pooks Hill In Betheda
• 12-4-14 Bethesda Magazine:  County Officials Urge State to Speed Up Planning for Bus Rapid Transit Line -- Proposed BRT system on Rockville Pike remains a long way off
• 12-4-14 Washington Post:  Purple Line bid deadline delayed for Hogan decision
• 12-3-14 Washington Business Journal:  Children's bid for Walter Reed space takes a hit in compromise bill -- A compromise Defense authorization bill makes it tougher for the Children's medical system to get its desired land — but not impossible
• 12-3-14 Association of Defense Communities:  Justification Study for New BRAC Stripped out of Compromise Measure
  • 12-3-14 Marine Corps Times:  Compromise Defense authorization bill rejects 2017 BRAC round
• 12-3-14 Association of Defense Communities:  DOD Likely to Continue Pursuit of BRAC under Carter
• 12-2-14 Maryland Capital Gazette (Baltimore Sun):  Federal spending in Md. falls by $1.2 billion, new report finds
• 12-2-14 United States Army:  U.S. Army Research Laboratory establishes a Postdoctoral Association
• 12-2-14 United States Army:  Adelphi Army Research Laboratory to welcome visitors to Open Campus Open House Dec. 9-10
• 12-2-14 NBC News:  'Money's Running Out': Obama Pushes for More Ebola Cash -- President Barack Obama headed to the National Institutes of Health outside Washington Tuesday to laud U.S. efforts to fight the Ebola virus
  • 12-2-14 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Obama drawing attention to Ebola vaccine research
  • 12-2-14 Bethesda Now:  Bethesda Traffic Issues Possible Tuesday As Obama Visits NIH
• 12-2-14 Washington Post:  Walter Pincus Fine Print column -- Pentagon budget efforts trapped by a cycle of ‘madness’
• 12-1-14 Gazette.Net:  NIH open to comments on major expansion in Bethesda -- Agency wants to move 3,000 workers to Bethesda campus
  • 11-28-14 NIH Publishes Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on Master Plan Update; 30-day waiting, comment period begins
  • Final EIS  (584 pp)
  • Background on NIH Master Plan and EIS
• 12-1-14 Bethesda Now:  Leggett Promises More Transit, Faster Approvals For Development
  • 12-1-14 Montgomery County Gpvernment:  Inaugural Remarks by County Executive Isiah Leggett  (corrected version)
• 12-1-14 Montgomery County Government:  Leggett Congratulates Montgomery County Department of Transportation for Role in Developing Bill 33-13 to Improve Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety
• 12-1-14 United States Army:  'Greening Course' teaches civilian employees about Army, Soldiers' duties
• 12-1-14 Washington Post:  Metro wants more money; without it, officials say, rail service might be cut back
• 12-1-14 Washington Post:  Capital Business -- Editor’s Note: HOT lanes just one good sign for Stafford County
• 12-1-14 Baltimore Sun:  Politics, not safety concerns, hamper Eastern Shore wind project -- Commentary by Andy Bowman, president of Pioneer Green Energy, developer of the proposed Great Bay Wind Energy Center in Somerset County.
• 12-1-14 WTOP 103.5 FM:  New intelligence agency established -- The National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) debuts Monday as the U.S. intelligence community seeks to stay ahead of the aggressive evolution of complicated espionage, cyber and security threats
   
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