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Planning a High-Density, Transit-Oriented Future for Waldorf, Maryland
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

When high-capacity transit comes to downtown Waldorf, Maryland -- as the Maryland Transit Administration has been discussing for several years -- local planners want the site to be ready to handle the new development that they hope will accompany it. A 2010 study funded under the Transportation P

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Infrastructure deficit, U.S.-China climate challenges, regional economic growth, and more!
Monday, May 14th, 2012

It’s been awhile since we’ve done a round-up of posts here at The Yardstick and since we’ve covered so many topics over the past couple of months, we thought we’d sum them up in case you haven’t had a chance to see them all: Metro Washington and the U.S. as a whole are suffering from a

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Montgomery’s Green Guide for Residents, Fairfax’s Environmental Agenda, and more Earth Month Highlights
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

Read the first and second round-up of Earth Month posts. Region Forward’s third and final week of celebrating Earth Month 2012 featured a collection of green initiatives from some of metro Washington’s largest and smallest jurisdictions. Montgomery County developed an online guide, My Gr

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Why is WRAG Talking About Regionalism?
Monday, April 30th, 2012

Tamara Copeland is President of the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers (WRAG). You can follow/contact her on Twitter @WRAGprez. Let's think of my block as a region. I've lived in my house - Copeland City - for more than twenty years. For all of that time, until last month, my house h

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Observations from China on Governance, Sustainability, Future Global Partnership
Friday, April 27th, 2012

This March, Jeff King, a Principal Environmental Planner at MWCOG, and Rick Cole, City Manager at the City of Ventura, California, traveled to the cities of Beijing, Xi'an, and Chongqing in China as part of the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) China Center initiative. As p

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How to solve our regional and national infrastructure deficit? (Part 2)
Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

This is part two of a two-part series on infrastructure funding and financing. Part one highlighted examples of our “infrastructure deficit” as discussed at a recent forum on regional and national infrastructure needs and part two focuses on infrastructure banks as potential ways to help better

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How to solve our regional and national infrastructure deficit? (Part 1)
Monday, April 23rd, 2012

In a globalized world, falling behind on infrastructure means falling behind economically. That’s a point we’ve made before here on The Yardstick and it was one of the key messages repeated by leaders at a recent forum on the potential for infrastructure banks to help solve our regional and nati

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Connecting people to the transportation planning process
Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

Twenty community leaders from around the Washington region recently attended a two-day workshop hosted by the Transportation Planning Board to learn about how transportation decisions are made in the region and how to become more involved in the decision-making process. Now in its sixth year, the

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Region Forward is Celebrating Earth Month!
Thursday, April 5th, 2012

What’s better than Earth Day? Earth Month! All April long, MWCOG will promote initiatives and events by its member jurisdictions that make metro Washington region greener and more sustainable. Here at The Yardstick on RegionForward.org, we’ll feature green and sustainability themed blog posts

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Innovation and Urbanism: A Winning Combination
Friday, March 23rd, 2012

How innovative is your metro area? Jonathan Rothwell over at The New Republic breaks down some new OECD data on inventors per capita and applications for patents by country and by metro area. Rothwell notes that ten metro areas, which comprise only about two percent of the world’s population, acco

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