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Humane Society sterilized 209 cats last spring
The Humane Society of Harford County announced that it sterilized 209 cats last spring and summer through its "Free Feline Fix" program. The Harford County Council awarded the Humane Society a stipend for the program last spring to try to control the...Tags: Viral Diseases, Diseases
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GOP town hall meeting Tuesday in Glen Burnie
The Anne Arundel County District 31 Republican delegation will hold a town hall meeting so constituents can meet the legislators, hear about state and local government happenings, and offer input into community needs. The final meeting in the series will...Tags: Glen Burnie
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DEBATING SLOTS
In 23 days, Maryland voters will decide an issue that has vexed Annapolis lawmakers for years: whether to establish slot-machine casinos across the state in a bid to boost state revenues, save the horse-racing industry and stem the flow of gambling...Tags: Casino and Gambling, Casino and Gambling Industry, Tourism and Leisure, Gaming and Lotteries
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Open for business today
Sarah Rosario and other longtime Annapolis residents say they remember the demise of the old Parole Shopping Center pretty much as a slow fade, with retailers large and small slip-sliding away for years. The Kmart packed up and moved to Edgewater,...Tags: Whole Foods Market, John R Leopold, Starbucks Corporation, Fort Meade, Sales
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Operating on the budget
As the economy and tax revenues continue to fall, the time for trimming is at hand. Government cost-cutting can be deft, even helpful, surgery that leaves a fiscally challenged budget hardly feeling a thing. Or it can be butchery where a spending plan...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Government, Martin O'Malley, William Donald Schaefer, State Budgets
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Cuts across the board
Harford County Executive David R. Craig has asked department directors to trim this year's budget to address a nearly $7 million shortfall in its $900 million fiscal year 2009 budget. Each agency must cut five percent from its operating costs. Craig used...Tags: Unemployment, Budgets and Budgeting, Layoffs and Downsizing, State Budgets, Housing Industry
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Second Stimulus Plan Sought
Gov. M. Jodi Rell and U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney are among a growing number of officials asking the federal government to enact a second economic stimulus plan. Rell and Courtney have written separate letters to Washington leaders, saying Connecticut...Tags: Jodi Rell, Joe Courtney, Unemployment
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Connecticut Week In Review: Stocks Drop, Gay Rights Rise
Wall Street was the infernal engine that drove the news in Connecticut last week. At a stultifying debate in Nashville, the presidential candidates blamed one another for failing to recognize warning signs of the greed that has crippled credit markets...Tags: Wages and Pensions, Allianz AG Holding, Family, Government, Executive Branch
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Gay Marriage Ruling Ended Long Journey Of Soul
The Hartford CourantFor years, Beth Kerrigan tried to talk herself out of being gay. The daughter of devout Irish Catholics, Kerrigan kept her sexuality a secret from her family. She pretended the boys she windsurfed, skied and biked with were boyfriends. If female...Tags: Family, Civil Rights, Colin McEnroe, Marriage, Burlington
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Stronger financial reporting urged in NJ
Associated Press WriterNew Jersey lawmakers are being urged to more diligently police their own conduct by requiring more detailed disclosure of their financial interests. A bipartisan group of legislators in the Senate and Assembly wants to require lawmakers to list their...Tags: Gloucester (Gloucester, Virginia), Government, Corporate Crime, Fraud, Ethics
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Help Wanted: How WARN act applies to company closures
carrie.mason-draffen@newsday.comDEAR CARRIE: I work for a company that is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will be going out of business in 60 days. My head is spinning with questions. What are our rights? Is our job secure for these 60 days, or can we be laid off at any time before that?...Tags: Unemployment, Plant Closings, Unions, Financially Distressed Companies, Labor Legislation
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Some federal housing help is on the way
Even in the midst of all the housing gloom and doom, there is some good news: Federal dollars will soon buy foreclosed homes and preserve the value of the communities that surround them. If our counties and towns use this money well, it should at least...Tags: Homes, Steve Levy, Long Island, Rentals, Islip
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