Recent Media Coverage

September 2006

• Transportation, environment key issues with BRAC.
  Joshua Stewart, Staff Writer, The Capital, September 27, 2006
• Reality Check Plus workshops tackle concerns over growth.  To listen, click here...
  Joel McCord, WYPR, September 26, 2006
• Officials Work to Fix Maryland Growth Problems.
  WBAL TV, September 26, 2006
• Marylanders favor preservation, report says.  Findings based on workshops held with residents, politicians, developers, planners on long-term growth.
  Timothy B. Wheeler, Sun Reporter, Baltimore Sun, September 26, 2006

August 2006

• Group focuses on future county growth.
  Mona Ridder, Cumberland Times-News, August 1, 2006

July 2006

• Searching for solutions. Creative strategies, policy changes, focused planning could help avert shortage. 
  Jamie Smith Hopkins, Sun Reporter, The Baltimore Sun, July 24, 2006
• When it comes to growth, are you a 'NIMBY' Nellie?
  Corinne Becker, The Examiner, July 17, 2006
• Smart Growth in Maryland: Facing a New Reality.
  Gerrit-Jan Knaap and Dru Schmidt-Perkins, Land Lines, Volume 18, Number 3, July 2006

June 2006

• Jobs and people are coming.  Where will we put them?
  Joe Nathanson, The Daily Record, June 23, 2006
• Mapping Out a Future For Southern Maryland.
  Dan Zak, Washington Post Staff Writer, The Washington Post, June 22, 2006
• Southern Marylanders look at how to handle new jobs, homes.
  The Enterprise, June 21, 2006
• An Exercise With Lego: Planning for Southern Maryland Growth.
  Anna Bedford, The Bay Net News, June 19, 2006
• Maryland gets a Reality Check.
  Getting There weblog, June 19, 2006
• Southern Maryland Plans Ahead for Impending Growth.
  Anna Bedford, The Bay Net News, June 15, 2006
• Getting ahead of the game. Workshop focuses on coping with region's projected growth.
  Timothy B. Wheeler, Sun Reporter, Baltimore Sun, June 10, 2006
• 'Reality' exercise tests planning skills.
  Andrew Schotz, The Herald-Mail, June 3, 2006

May 2006

• Event probes growth issues.
  Pete Macinta, Daily Banner, May 29, 2006
• Ways to grow.
  Editorial, Baltimore Sun, May 24, 2006
• Reality Check Plus to explore growth in Western Maryland.
  Cumberland Times-News, May 23, 2006
• State Planning Secretary Stresses Preparedness For Expected Growth.
  The Republican, May 18, 2006
• ‘Reality Check Plus’ to talk growth at Hyatt.
  Steve Nery, Staff Writer, The Star Democrat, May 17, 2006
• Reality Check to host session on growth.
  The Calvert Recorder, May 10, 2006
• Program will focus on Shore growth. (Letter to the editor.)
  John Wilson and Torrey Brown, Somerset Herald, May 10, 2006
• Predicting our future. Shore participants are invited to Reality Check Plus forum in Cambridge. (Guest comment.)
  John Wilson and Torrey Brown, The Star Democrat, May 7, 2006
• Project will plot future growth of Southern Maryland.
  The Independent, May 3, 2006

April 2006

• Reality Check Plus coverage.
  Clifford G. Cumber, Frederick News-Post, April 28, 2006
• Reality Check Plus to explore Southern Maryland’s growth.
  The Enterprise, April 26, 2006
• 'Reality Check' to offer growth vision for Maryland. (Letter to the editor.)
  John Bambacus, Cumberland Times-News, April 11, 2006

March 2006

• Center uses Legos to plan growth.  State planners prep for population influx of 1.5 million over 25 years.
  Jeremy Tam, The Diamondback, March 15, 2006
• Region's planning leaders to meet in June to discuss growth.
  Kevin Conron, The Calvert Recorder, March 2, 2006

February 2006

• Building a vision for growth in Md.  Builders, activists, officials to use game in attempt at development consensus.
  Timothy B. Wheeler, Sun Reporter, Baltimore Sun, February 24, 2006

January 2006

• Maryland population explosion?  U.S. Census Bureau expects total to reach 7 million in 25 years.
  Maria D. Martirano, Staff Writer, Cumberland Times-News, January 11, 2006