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Martin O'Malley is the 61st governor of Maryland and previously served as mayor of Baltimore City from 1999 to 2007. O'Malley defeated incumbent Republican Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. in the Nov. 7, 2006, election by a 6.5 percent margin. He was the only candidate to defeat a sitting governor in 2006. O'Malley's involvement in politics began at age 20, when he became a volunteer for Gary Hart's presidential campaign. While in law school, O'Malley further honed his skills as state field director for Barbara A. Mikulski's successful U.S. Senate race and later served as a legislative fellow in her office. O'Malley was elected to a seat on the City Council in 1991 and served until 1999, represent...
Martin O'Malley is the 61st governor of Maryland and previously served as mayor of Baltimore City from 1999 to 2007. O'Malley defeated incumbent Republican Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. in the Nov. 7, 2006, election by a 6.5 percent margin. He was the only candidate to defeat a sitting governor in 2006. O'Malley's involvement in politics began at age 20, when he became a volunteer for Gary Hart's presidential campaign. While in law school, O'Malley further honed his skills as state field director for Barbara A. Mikulski's successful U.S. Senate race and later served as a legislative fellow in her office. O'Malley was elected to a seat on the City Council in 1991 and served until 1999, representing Baltimore's 3rd District. As mayor, O'Malley's statistics-based accountability tool CitiStat won Harvard University's prestigious Innovations in American Government award in 2004. O'Malley is a 1985 graduate of The Catholic University. He earned his J.D. in 1988 from the University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore and passed the bar the same year. O'Malley is married to state District Judge Catherine 'Katie' Curran O'Malley, the daughter of J. Joseph Curran Jr., who served as Maryland attorney general from 1987 to 2007. Martin and Katie O'Malley live in the governor's mansion in Annapolis with their children, Grace, Tara, William and Jack. Aside from politics, O'Malley showcases his musical talents and heritage with his on-again, off-again Irish rock band O'Malley's March.
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Boniface appointed to state agricultural panel
Harford County Council President Billy Boniface has been appointed by Gov. Martin O'Malley to the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation Board for a four-year term. The Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation Board comprises a 12-...Tags: Local Authority
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Marylanders want to know: Where's my bailout?
A Prince George's County state senator says the Wall Street bailout came up a lot last weekend at the Maryland City Volunteer Fire Department's fall bazaar. People were wondering why they weren't getting bailed out. Some just shrugged. What'd you expect?...Tags: Marvin Mandel, Abraham Lincoln, Ben Bernanke, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Corrupt Practices
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Phelps gets a hometown welcome to Baltimore with parade, Star-Spangled salute
AP Sports WriterBALTIMORE (AP) _ Michael Phelps was formally welcomed home Saturday with a two-pronged celebration that began with a parade and ended with a fireworks show at historic Fort McHenry. Phelps was the focal point of the "Parade of Gold", which served as a...Tags: Michael Phelps, Awards and Prizes, Katie Hoff, Festive Event, Sheila Dixon
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Stone to return to former city school board post
A former Baltimore school board member got his old position back in an appointment announced yesterday by Mayor Sheila Dixon and Gov. Martin O'Malley. David Stone, 45, served on the board from 2002 to 2004, when he resigned to work as the school system's...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Sheila Dixon, Roland Park, Corporate Officers, Government
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Traffic restrictions expected for Phelps, Olympians celebration
By a Baltimore Sun reporterSaturday's celebrations of Michael Phelps and other local Olympians will cause significant traffic restrictions in Towson and near Fort McHenry in Baltimore. In Towson, Phelps' hometown, an afternoon "Parade of Gold" is planned for 3 p.m. Starting at 1:...Tags: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, M&T Bank Stadium, Towson University, Sheila Dixon, Fort McHenry
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Running things was simpler in City Hall
In an article titled "Stat Governor," the latest issue of Governing magazine ponders this: "Martin O'Malley ran Baltimore by the numbers. Can he make it work for all of Maryland?" Author Jonathan Walters observes O'Malley wresting stats out of criminal-...Tags: Katie Hoff, Family, William Donald Schaefer, Landforms, Caves and Caverns
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Surveillance was 'misguided'
Maryland State Police "over-reached" and disregarded civil rights when they spied on anti-death penalty and peace activists in 2005 and 2006, according to a report commissioned by Gov. Martin O'Malley and released yesterday.
Undercover troopers and their...Tags: National Security, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Law Enforcement, Safety of Citizens, Terrorism
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A life of 'selfless service to others'
As a child, Mickey Lippy dreamed of becoming a rescuer and pretended to fight fires with a vacuum cleaner hose and transport victims on an old TV stand that doubled as a makeshift gurney.
The Carroll County resident, who realized that aspiration by...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Timonium, Fires, Transportation Accidents, Government
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Spy games
The rights of free speech and assembly define who we are as Americans. They represent the founding principles of a democratic nation. And they should be respected and upheld and safeguarded not only by citizens but by the men and women charged with...Tags: Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Government, Human Rights, Punishment, Lawyers
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Rounding up the unusual suspects
Maybe while the four undercover state troopers - identified in a report released yesterday only as "T1" through "T4" - were wasting their time spying on a few peaceniks, other members of their unit were gathering intel on the kinds of people who...Tags: National Security, Defense, Safety of Citizens, Terrorism, Government
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Spying may have started earlier than police said
A Maryland State Police agent may have used an undercover alias to infiltrate a leftist Mount Vernon cooperative in January 2005 - two months before police say their secret monitoring of death-penalty activists began - according to documents released...Tags: Weather Underground, Law Enforcement, Government, Ralph Nader, Death Penalty
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GBC backs underground city Red Line plan
A leading business group is pushing a plan to build a light rail line between Woodlawn and East Baltimore that would include substantial tunneling to go underneath downtown and neighborhoods opposed to surface tracks. The Greater Baltimore Committee...Tags: Fells Point, Canton (Baltimore, Maryland)
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