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Online sales tax bill should be improved, and passed
The U.S. Senate recently passed a bill that would allow states to require Internet retailers to collect sales taxes on behalf of local governments. This bill has flaws, but they could be fixed in the House. It should be passed. I don't like the idea...
Tags: Employees, Sales, Computer Networking and Internet, Robert H. Smith, U.S. Senate
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Congress flies blind
What does it require to get members of Congress to take action quickly and decisively on an issue of federal spending? Now we know. The possibility that they will be delayed in an airport terminal somewhere waiting for a flight out of town is apparently...
Tags: Barack Obama, Steny Hoyer, Breast Cancer, Budget Control Act of 2011, Chemotherapy
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Government, unions offer advice, answers on furloughs
As thousands of federal workers prepare to be furloughed, many are concerned about how to deal with a pay cut. Keith Everett, a chief steward with the American Federation of Government Employees, said his union held two meetings in recent weeks at...Tags: Fort Meade (military base), Taxation, Employment Opportunities, Finance, Government
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Why there's a bull market for investors and a bear market for workers
Last Friday, the Labor Department reported that 236,000 new jobs were created in February. That's good news -- but not nearly good enough. Even if this rate were to continue, which seems unlikely, the United States wouldn't be back to pre-recession levels...
Tags: Stock Market, Technology, Unemployment, Labor Markets, Money and Monetary Policy
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Corporate welfare for Lockheed Martin
At this time of severe cutbacks in government funding for food stamps, early childhood education and Meals on Wheels, some Maryland legislators are hard at work looking out for the welfare of one of the world's wealthiest corporations. Under a bill...
Tags: Pension and Welfare, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, U.S. Military, Maryland General Assembly, General Contracting
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Sequester vs. social justice: What would RFK do?
With the sequester now beginning, I find myself thinking about Robert F. Kennedy -- and 46 years ago, when I was an intern in his Senate office. The nation was going through a difficult time in 1967. America was deeply split over civil rights and the...
Tags: George W. Bush, International Military Interventions, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Mitt Romney, Ronald Reagan
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Bel Air payroll firm sued for allegedly keeping clients' tax payments
A Bel Air company that handled payrolls for many employers in the area is being sued by clients for allegedly stealing years of tax payments rather than sending them on to the tax collectors as required — leaving the companies on the hook....
Tags: Taxation, Trials, Employment Opportunities, Internal Revenue Service, Laws
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Food survey shows one in six Marylanders have gone hungry
Nearly one in six Marylanders did not have enough money to buy food their family needed at times during 2012, according to a report released Thursday by the Food Research and Action Center. Of those surveyed, 15.9 percent in the Baltimore-Towson area...Tags: U.S. Congress, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Safeway Inc.
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Md. man gets 121/2-year term in biodiesel credit fraud
A Perry Hall man was sentenced Friday to 121/2 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $42 million in restitution after being convicted of selling $9 million worth of fake biodiesel fuel credits to oil companies and commodities brokers. Rodney R....
Tags: Sales, Perry Hall, Justice System, Trials, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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City schools report card
The latest statistics from the Maryland State Department of Education show Baltimore City making steady progress toward increasing the number of students who finish high school. Last year city schools awarded 149 more diplomas than in 2011, and the city's...
Tags: High Schools, Students, Teaching and Learning, Graduation, Schools
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Singapore, a land without entitlements
SINGAPORE -- While the U.S. unemployment rate "dropped" to 7.7 percent last month -- a figure even The Washington Post acknowledged was due "in large part because the labor force fell by 350,000" -- here in this modern and prosperous city-state of...
Tags: Pension and Welfare, Employment Opportunities, Labor Markets, Government, Ethics
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After months of discussion, Aberdeen City council approves new ethics law
After postponing the vote from its Jan. 29 meeting, the Aberdeen City Council voted unanimously Monday to approve legislation updating the town's Ethics Ordinance. The amended ordinance was passed on the advice of city's lawyer, Fred Sussman, to bring...
Tags: Fines, Justice System, Harford County, Charity, Government
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