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Nov 16, 2011

Census of fleet also shows that trend towards SUVs has reversed dramatically. Key findings suggest that residents are responding to changing economic conditions, primarily the recession and rising gas prices.

Nov 10, 2011

Gentrification is an international reality. Just as the District of Columbia and other parts of this region experience the benefits of revitalization while also having to confront its consequences so too are other in-demand cities around the world.

Nov 9, 2011

Special COG Committee proposes new Regional Incident Coordination Program to ensure that area officials better coordinate decisions before and during major incidents. It also made recommendations on key issues such as employee release decisions, communication with the public, and backup power for traffic signals and critical facilities.

Nov 8, 2011

Tamara Lucas Copeland President of the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers (WRAG)

Nov 4, 2011

Andrews, who served as Chair of the Steering Committee on Incident Management and Response (IMR), discusses group's final report and key recommendation.

Nov 4, 2011

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.

Nov 2, 2011

Lisa A. Sturtevant PhD is Assistant Research Professor at the George Mason University School of Public Policy in the Center for Regional Analysis and Stephen S. Fuller PhD is the Director of the Center for Regional Analysis

Oct 31, 2011

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.

Oct 25, 2011

Infrastructure has been in the news a lot lately. Whether it’s the economic stimulus effect of building new mass transit lines or the safety hazards posed by crumbling bridges infrastructure is getting a lot of play by both the traditional media and the blogosphere.

Oct 21, 2011

There’s a multi-year multi-billion dollar regional effort underway in metropolitan Washington aimed at improving the quality of life of millions of people. No we’re not talking about Metrorail extension to Dulles.