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Nov 19, 2013

Like other top officials across metropolitan Washington, school superintendents say the area’s demographic changes and rapid population growth are among their top issues.

Nov 18, 2013

Ron Kirby's mechanical pencil and block eraser never touched a draft of this issue of TPB Weekly Report. It's the first time that's happened in the nearly two years since we started publishing -- 91 issues in all.

Nov 18, 2013

Area leaders continue to move forward on projects to make solar power an option for more residents businesses and local governments. We’ve previously blogged about efforts in Arlington Frederick and Loudoun counties and in Charles County to create a strong long-lasting solar market in metropolitan Washington.

Nov 18, 2013

Washington Post feature remembering COG's Ron Kirby.

Nov 12, 2013

All of the officials and employees of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments and the Transportation Planning Board are devastated by the loss of our colleague, Ron Kirby. Dr. Kirby, one of the region’s leading experts on transportation planning, was a key figure in all aspects of our work on regional planning and collaboration. He guided the work of the Transportation Planning Board for more than 26 years.

Nov 6, 2013

Developing human capital in the Washington region is a key element of the Region Forward vision for a prosperous and livable greater Washington.

Nov 5, 2013

As 1.5 million people are set to move into the Washington region by 2040 affordable housing will become critical for maintaining an educated middle class workforce. Shared equity homeownership is a tool that local governments can use that allows homes to remain affordable to middle and lower income households on a long-term basis. It does this by preserving affordable housing in areas where rising prices are forcing lower income households out of the market such as in the high cost Washington​

Nov 4, 2013

More than 70 transportation planners, health policy advocates, and representatives from school districts across the Washington region came together on October 29 to discuss ways to make it easier and safer for children to walk and bike to and from school.

Oct 30, 2013

As promised in an earlier Yardstick post here are the results from our September 27 th event Economy Forward: Help Shape the Future of the Region. America Speaks an organization which captures opinion data with live electronic polling helped facilitate the gathering and recorded these instant survey results.

Oct 28, 2013

A lot goes into predicting how people will travel around the region decades from now.