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Dec 14, 2010

$58.8 million in grants will create jobs while easing congestion in the region

Dec 14, 2010

Last week in Chicago Brookings hosted a Global Metro Summit: Delivering the Next Economy a program that unveiled a powerful vision for the post-recession economy. This vision is characterized as export-oriented low carbon innovation-fueled opportunity rich and led by metropolitan areas.

Dec 13, 2010

Passenger rail accounts for a very small percentage of travel in the United States though this was not always the case. Passenger rail was the primary mode of intercity travel in the U.S. until the 1950s. Thereafter the car became king for shorter trips and airplanes for longer voyages. Passenger rail’s travel share may start to rise with the administration’s push to begin to bring American trains closer to the high-speed systems found in Europe and Asia. However this push will take time and persistence if it is to have a real impact on travel share and by extension help meet RF targets on reducing auto dependency and greenhouse gas emissions.

Dec 10, 2010

The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson recently compiled a photographic slideshow of the 30 most dynamic cities in the world using data from Brookings on growth in employment and income. Austin Texas is the only U.S. city to make the cut with the vast majority coming from Asia and Latin America. Montreal is the only other North American city on the list. What do you think of this listing? Is this the best way to measure dynamism?

Dec 10, 2010

Rushern Baker Prince George’s County’s new County Executive and Chuck Bean Executive Director of the Nonprofit Roundtable of Greater Washington discuss Region Forward at “One Region Moving Forward” the 2010 Annual Meeting and Awards Luncheon of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG):

Dec 9, 2010

Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker [pictured left] and Nonprofit Roundtable Executive Director Chuck Bean discuss Region Forward at COG Annual Meeting.

Dec 9, 2010

Maintaining a sense of community in light of new investment and lots of new residents can be tricky. In most instances where a neighborhood is severely blighted by high crime poor education appalling housing and inadequate access to health care it can be argued that a functioning community does not exist. In such cases it’s easy to see how investment aimed at improving these indicators will be beneficial for the neighborhood’s current residents as long adequate safeguards are put in place to

Dec 8, 2010

Falls Church Vice Mayor Snyder, who served as TPB Chairman in 2010, wins Scull Award. Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers wins COG's Partnership Award.

Dec 8, 2010

It’s no secret that metro Washington is full of college degrees. In fact it has one of the highest concentrations of college and advanced degrees in the country. Over at Urbanophile there’s a really interesting post complete with graphs and charts comparing the cities and counties with the highest “density of degrees” as well as the growth in the density of degrees relative to population growth in general.

Dec 7, 2010

Metropolitan Washington – made up of the District of Columbia Northern Virginia and Suburban Maryland – has about 5.3 million people. It’s one of the fastest growing metro areas in the country that’s not in Texas California or the southeast and its continued growth represents a national and international trend: the rise of global cities .