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Unions focus organizing efforts on service sector workplaces
After spending three decades at the Hyatt Regency Baltimore, Kevin Hux eagerly joined efforts this past year to unionize his workplace. "I joined this union to have some kind of voice and be protected," said Hux, 55, who started in housekeeping shortly...
Tags: University of Baltimore, Tourism and Leisure, International Longshoremen's Association, Labor Legislation, Elections
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Save the traditional married family
Healthy societies around the world throughout history have given marriage between a man and a woman special legal protection because of the recognition that it is the one institution that ensures the society's stable future through the orderly procreation...
Tags: Family, Marriage
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Maryland's blue crab season will likely have a slow start
April 1 is the official start to the blue crab harvest in Maryland. But don't reach for your mallet just yet. "It's not time for crabs," said Jessica Borowski, a manager at Midtown BBQ and Brew. "It's too cold out." The crabs seem to agree. The...
Tags: Labor Day, Annapolis, Conservation, Tangier (Accomack, Virginia), Energy Resources
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40% of older households in Md. ill-prepared for retirement, study finds
At an age when many workers are thinking about winding down their careers, Victoria Baldassano of Silver Spring says she can't afford to give retirement a thought. The part-time English professor at Montgomery College said her income has been too low for...
Tags: Retirement, Employees, Social Security, Finance, Pension and Welfare
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With online technology, buying and selling options abound
The last time Yasmin and Adil Degani bought a home, they took the traditional route. They went with a commission-based real estate brokerage to show them homes and guide them through the homebuying process. This time around, in an effort to save money...
Tags: Property, Banking, Homes, Media Industry, Realty
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The expat life: Going south of the border
In June 2009, my husband Sam and I slammed down the hatchback of our Honda CRV, the interior bulging with containers of Legos and books, school supplies and board games, and a box of shoes, a tin of Old Bay in the glove compartment. On the roof was a...
Tags: Tacos, Apple iPod, Trips and Vacations, Authors, IBM
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Catonsville High gets infusion of Japanese culture
Girls in bright yellows, pinks and reds and boys in deep blues and greens zoomed around a conference room at Catonsville High School Thursday in a frenzy to get changed between lunch and fourth period. The 20 students were not Catonsville Comets. They...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, Culture, Students, Ceremonies, Washington, DC
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Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Vienna for gay travelers
VIENNA, March 29 -- Vienna's opulent Habsburg-era coffee houses, architecture, palaces, operas, and other cultural institutions give the city an air of imperial grandeur. Yet the Austrian capital with 1.7 million residents is not stuck in the past,...
Tags: Personal Service, Vienna (Austria), Culture, Gays and Lesbians, Dining and Drinking
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'The Civil War and American Art' is one of the first in a wave of regional creative projects on the conflict
The lone Union sentry stands atop Federal Hill, outlined against an ominous orange/red sky. In the distance, the tops of the Washington Monument and several spires rise above the city, as straight and determined as the rifle held in the soldier's left...
Tags: Fine Artists, Baltimore School for the Arts, Gun Control, Colleges and Universities, Gays and Lesbians
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Consevancy invites you to hike and learn to read the landscape [Marriottsville/Sykesville/Woodstock]
The Howard County Conservancy hosts a weekend-long lecture and hiking series, "Sense of Place: Learning to Read Our Landscapes." Noted ecologist Tom Wessels, an emeritus professor at Antioch New England Graduate School, in New Hampshire, will be on hand...Tags: Good Friday, Religious Festivals, Easter, Sykesville, Patapsco
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Perry Hall High School prepares to celebrate first 50 years
At age 50, she's still big and beautiful. Beginning this year, Perry Hall High School will mark a half-century of existence with celebratory events stretching 14 months. "It's going to be a party," Principal George Roberts said. The scope of the...
Tags: Harford Road, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Daniel Borowy, Students, Judas Priest (music group)
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March arrives to celebrate Women's History and American Red Cross
It's March, dear readers! Will the old adage of lions and lambs ring true? Will we be in like a lion an out like a lamb, or in like a lamb and out like a lion? One never knows. Will March be traditionally windy? Hold onto your hat and we shall see....Tags: Relief and Aid Organizations, Christianity, Japan, Anglicanism, War of 1812
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