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Sep 16, 2011

On September 16, National Journal brought together a group of political leaders and experts at Union Station to discuss the need to improve America’s aging infrastructure during a time of massive deficits and demands for fiscal restraint. COG Transportation Planning Director Ron Kirby was one of the featured speakers.

Sep 15, 2011

The National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB) is encouraging Washington area Hispanic residents to participate in its 2011-2012 Household Travel Survey. Spanish-language speakers were underrepresented in the previous Regional Household Travel Survey taken in 2007-2008.

Sep 15, 2011

Last year the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded MWCOG with a “Smart Growth Implementation Assistance” grant to develop a climate change adaptation plan for metropolitan Washington. To help guide the plan’s development the EPA and MWCOG recently held four workshops with local officials focusing on specific sectors likely to be impacted. This is a two part series based on those workshops. Part one focuses on the water and building sectors while part two focuses on the transp

Sep 15, 2011

Even as metropolitan Washington’s population continues to increase rapidly – growing by about 15 percent in the past ten years – crime in the region has decreased markedly. This is an incredibly important fact because no matter how hard we push to make the region better if the crime trend were pointing in the opposite direction other improvements would perhaps deservedly fade into to the background.

Sep 15, 2011

Tropical Storm Lee and Hurricane Irene flushed out the remaining algae. Earlier water contact advisories issued by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Stafford County, VA Department of Health are no longer in effect.

Sep 14, 2011

The October 15th event will provide free financial education and programming to residents of the District of Columbia, suburban Maryland, and Northern Virginia.

Sep 8, 2011

To meet our shared goals outlined in Region Forward better coordination of transportation and land use is essential. But before local governments can launch projects that promote transit-oriented development complete streets and bicycle and pedestrian safety they often need some support.

Aug 30, 2011

While catching up on some non-Hurricane Irene news yesterday we noticed an interesting set of articles presenting two problems – environmental and climate degradation and economic uncertainty – that can be solved through a common solution: promoting and creating green jobs.

Aug 26, 2011

Over the past few years a number of reports and articles have popped up discussing a trend that would have seemed completely unrealistic only a few years ago – the amount Americans are driving is continuing to decrease. Over at Ezra Klein’s Washington Post blog Brad Plumer points that the rate of driving is significantly off the peak reached in 2007 and questions the common assumption that this reduction will change course once the economy starts growing at a steady pace again.

Aug 24, 2011

Housing in America is undergoing a transformation. Lifestyle priorities and a renewed interest in urban walkable areas are making sprawling far-flung homes less attractive. Economic forces are also contributing to changing housing preferences.