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Jun 30, 2015

Award winners Opower Inc., WeddingWire, and Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative were announced at Commuter Connections 18th Annual Employer Recognition Awards.

Jun 30, 2015

Fifty years ago today, on June 30, 1965, the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board was officially incorporated as the Washington region's federally designated metropolitan planning organization, or MPO.

Jun 25, 2015

Frank J. Principi is the Woodbridge District Supervisor for Prince William County, a post he has held since 2008. At the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG), Principi serves as a member of the Board of Directors and as Chairman of the National Capital Region Emergency Preparedness Council. Principi served as the chair of the COG Board of Directors for 2012.

Jun 24, 2015

The COG Human Services and Public Safety Policy Committee convened top executives from four WICs and WIBs-the Montgomery County Workforce Investment Board, Alexandria/Arlington Workforce Investment Board, D.C. Workforce Investment Council, and The SkillSource Group, Inc.-to paint a picture of the resources they provide to the area’s jobseekers and outline opportunities for greater collaboration among their agencies.

Jun 23, 2015

A long list of new transit services or significant enhancements slated to come online in the Washington region over the next few years were highlighted at a recent gathering of transit agencies and operators from across the metropolitan area.

Jun 16, 2015

When Al Grant arrived at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) in 1966, he brought with him a wealth of experience. The former chief bridge designer for the District of Columbia's Department of Highways and Traffic would lead COG's new transportation planning department and staff responsible for supporting the newly-minted Transportation Planning Board (TPB). Grant passed away in April.

Jun 16, 2015

Al Grant joined COG in 1966 to build and lead a team that would be responsible for supporting the newly established National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB). He served COG and the TPB for 21 years and was known for being professional, meticulous, and a skilled behind-the-scenes negotiator.​

Jun 11, 2015

Greater cooperation across borders on a variety of issues will be critical to the National Capital Region’s future economic success according to Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker III and Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett.

Jun 9, 2015

The great outdoors serves as the office for our region’s foresters, farmers, horticultural, and landscape professionals, and tick-borne diseases like Lyme pose a threat to these field personnel. However, an improved understanding of tick-borne Lyme disease has helped them to better recognize the risks and protections needed when performing field work.

Jun 9, 2015

Every three years the Transportation Planning Board carries out a regional vehicle "census" to determine the year, make, and model of nearly every car and truck registered in the Washington region. The analysis yields important information about the changing age and make-up of the region's vehicle fleet that helps the TPB refine its forecasts of future vehicle-related emissions of key air pollutants and greenhouse gases.