Newsroom

There are a number of ways to keep informed about COG, its members, and programs. The Newsroom feed lists news releases and highlights as well as TPB News articles. A variety of content is also available through digital subscriptions.  

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COG's Podcast: Think Regionally

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COG's podcast, Think Regionally, raises awareness about metropolitan Washington's biggest challenges and focuses on solutions. The podcast, which is hosted by former Washington Post columnist Robert McCartney, features local government, business, and non-profit leaders talking about a variety of timely topics, including the region's economy, racial equity, transportation, housing, and climate change.

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Newsroom Archives

  • Region Forward Blog

    Funneling housing growth to areas served by transit

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    Region Forward

    Recently the Center for Regional Analysis (CRA) at George Mason University published research quantifying the demand for housing in metropolitan Washington. The results suggest the region will need to create 640299 new housing units to accommodate about one million net new jobs forecasted between 2010 and 2030.

  • Region Forward Blog

    Land Use Proposals in Metro Washington Generate Controversy

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    Region Forward

    Land use isn’t something that regularly finds itself at the forefront of most peoples’ minds. However because it’s something that impacts everyone’s daily life in a very direct way when the topic of land use does come up folks tend to have very strong opinions about it.

  • News Release

    Capital Area Foreclosure Network Launches Bilingual Mobile Text Messaging Campaign

    The service will provide those in or worried about foreclosure with access to advice, reminders, and alerts through their mobile phones in either Spanish or English. The goals of the campaign are to increase the number of homeowners and renters that get help from a nonprofit housing counselor, and decrease the number of people who drop out of counseling.

  • Region Forward Blog

    Clean energy's (non-environmental and non-climate) benefits

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    Region Forward

    In a weird way among the most frequent themes we return to on this blog when discussing the environment and climate change are the non-environmental and climate benefits of taking action on these issues. Even if we decide to completely neglect the moralistic arguments put forth by environmentalists and/or the scientific evidence put forth by researchers for why we should diversify our energy sources and reduce greenhouse gas emissions there are still two huge reasons to do so: economic growth

  • Region Forward Blog

    Urbanism increasing in DC's suburbs

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    The three largest jurisdictions in the region (Fairfax Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties) are planning for dramatic transformations and showing that density transit and mixed-use development are not antithetical to the suburbs.

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