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Nov 13, 2017

November is National Adoption Month. This month highlights the need for families to foster and adopt youth in the foster care system. Find out what you can do to help.

Nov 9, 2017

Area officials on the COG Board of Directors approved a letter to U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady calling for the preservation of the state and local tax deduction (SALT) in the tax reform bill being considered by the committee.

Nov 7, 2017

With the holidays and lots of home-cooked meals around the corner, COG and its water utility partners on the Community Engagement Campaign (CEC) are reminding residents of the perils of putting meat fats, cooking oils, dairy products, and other food scraps down the sink.

Nov 7, 2017

To promote transit-oriented development (TOD) in the region, COG held a forum on November 2 to bring together elected officials, WMATA staff, real estate developers, and local government planning directors to share best practices and opportunities for collaboration. City of Falls Church Mayor David Tarter and Prince George’s County Council Chairman Derrick L. Davis, share their perspectives about TOD in this Q&A.

Nov 7, 2017

Every fall as the days get shorter, the TPB’s bicycle and pedestrian safety campaign, Street Smart, kicks off a period of ad campaigns and increased enforcement. This year, the program is launching new creative content for its messaging campaign. Here’s a peek behind the curtain to see how this new campaign came to be.

Nov 7, 2017

At its October 18 meeting, the Long-Range Plan Task Force discussed the process it will use to select initiatives from the ten being studied to recommend for the TPB’s endorsement.

Nov 7, 2017

Several TPB staff—including the TPB News team attended the Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations’ (AMPO) Annual Conference. We loved meeting other MPO staff from all over the country to swap ideas and be inspired. Here are a few things we took away from the conference.

Nov 3, 2017

Representatives from the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia launched a new Street Smart safety awareness campaign to warn drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians to be more alert as daylight saving time ends, bringing darker commuting hours.

Oct 24, 2017

At its October 18 meeting, the TPB approved an amendment to the region’s Constrained Long-Range Transportation Plan (CLRP), kicked off the solicitation of inputs for the new Visualize 2045 long-range plan, and approved five projects in the District of Columbia to receive federal Transportation Alternatives funding. Before approving the CLRP amendment, several board members expressed concern about Maryland’s design for replacing the Harry Nice Bridge, one of the projects in the amendment, urging ​