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Wind energy needs union workers
There has been a lot said and written about a project labor agreement (PLA) being implemented for the proposed Maryland offshore wind energy project. When the time arrives for investments to be made in the construction of this critical project, there will...Tags: Renewable Energy, Reebok Ltd., Renewable Energy, Productivity, Business
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Protesters head to D.C. to decry economic inequality
Civil rights veteran Helena Hicks had walked much of the route already, many years ago — decades before the nation's capital memorialized the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in stone. Some things have changed dramatically since then, others not so...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Druid Hill, Racism, Labor Legislation, Westminster (Carroll, Maryland)
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Another labor group to back same-sex marriage
Maryland's AFL-CIO, a 300,000-member strong labor union, will back the same-sex marriage legislation, marking a key endorsement from a powerful political force in the state. The group last month passed a resolution supportive of gay unions, and will hold...Tags: Michael E. Busch, Family, Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Gays and Lesbians
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Baltimore officials kept close eye on Occupy
Brian C. Rogers, chairman of the Baltimore-based money management giant T. Rowe Price, works in the corporate office high-rise towering over an Inner Harbor park. And for weeks, the company overlooked a group of protesters beating drums, pitching tents...Tags: Ritual and Sacred Objects, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, T. Rowe Price, Media Industry, Menorahs
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Cummings launches probe of for-profit schools
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings said Monday he is launching an investigation into the salaries and bonuses paid to the top executives of for-profit colleges, noting that a majority of their revenue comes from students who are receiving federal tuition aid....Tags: ITT Educational Services Incorporated, Annapolis, Students, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning
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O'Malley: Benefits of Exelon-CEG merger go beyond rate credit
While Maryland business, labor and environmental groups backed a $1 billion settlement between Gov. Martin O'Malley and Exelon Corp. related to the Chicago company's buyout of Constellation Energy Group, not everyone was satisfied.
Merger opponent EDF...Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Regulatory Policy and Organizations, Energy Resources, Corporate Officers, Constellation Energy Group
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Occupy Baltimore protesters seek to remain until April
Occupy Baltimore protesters have asked city officials for permission to remain in an Inner Harbor park until April, according to an application submitted to the city.
Protesters delivered applications for permits to use the park to both Mayor Stephanie...Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Occupy Wall Street, Demonstration, Activism, Protest
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Congress creates a transportation time bomb
Tick, tick, tick.
The big political news of last week, the brief skirmish between House Speaker John A. Boehner and President Barack Obama over whether the president would address Congress on Wednesday or Thursday, was the classic sort of playground...Tags: Air Transportation, Republican Party, Road Transportation, White House, John A. Boehner
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District 10: Bill Marker
1. Please describe your educational and professional background and how it has prepared you to serve on the City Council.
I am a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (B.A. History) and the University of Maryland Law School (J.D.). I have lived near...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Unions, Pigtown, Annapolis, Employment Opportunities
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City voters head to the polls
BREAKING NEWS ALERT:
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake glided to victory in the Democratic primary Tuesday, securing the nomination for a full four-year term in the office to which she was appointed last year.
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Baltimore voters headed to the polls this...Tags: Joseph T. Landers, III, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Helen Holton, Elections
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Newcomer seeks at-large seat on Laurel City Council
In 1976 when Adrian Rousseau was 14 years old, he joined the Laurel Boys and Girls Club and participated in many club activities. That was a year after his family moved to the city from Washington, to get away from crime in his Northeast neighborhood,...Tags: Elections, High School Sports, NASA, Sales, Regional Authority
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CEO pay on the rise again
The pay cuts didn't last long.
Chief executives of publicly traded companies in Maryland and across corporate America saw their compensation rebound in 2010 as profits came back and the stock market recovered much of the ground it lost in the recession....Tags: Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., Annapolis, Corporate Officers, Constellation Energy Group, CEO Pay
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