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Bill would limit retirement benefits for some Balto. Co. workers
Some Baltimore County employees who retire in the future would receive smaller pensions under state legislation proposed by County Executive Kevin Kamenetz's administration. The measure, which has split the county's public employee unions, would save the...Tags: Baltimore County, Justice System, Judges, Employees, Pension and Welfare
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O'Malley builds on tax-raising legacy
The General Assembly's speedy embrace of Gov. Martin O'Malley's income tax increases this week cleaned up a political mess in Annapolis, but the rate hikes could come back to haunt the Democrat if he seeks national office when his time in the governor's...Tags: National Government, Budgets and Budgeting, Elections, Taxation, Chris Christie
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Youth violence, staff force spiked in 2011 at troubled juvenile detention facilities
In the J. DeWeese Carter Center in Kent County, youths would pick fights that sometimes turned into melees, recalled Rodney Stallworth, who spent four months there last year on a drug charge.
The detention system frustrated the 18-year-old East Baltimore...Tags: Carroll County (Maryland), Unions, Sex Crimes, Health and Safety at School, Baltimore County
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Mother stabs child at social services office; security questioned
Authorities are investigating Tuesday's security breach at a Baltimore social services office, which police said allowed a woman hiding a large kitchen knife in a bag to enter the building and stab her 8-month-old daughter.
The infant was wounded in...Tags: Domestic Travel, Injuries and Wounds, Social Services, Parenting
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State considers new pharmacy plan without Walgreens
State employees, retirees and their dependents could no longer fill their prescriptions at Walgreens under a contract being considered by Maryland's Board of Public Works.
The panel agreed Wednesday to defer action on the $2.4 billion five-year...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Drugs and Medicines, Employees, Employees, Government
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State looks at all-electronic toll collection
Maryland may eventually do away with tollbooths on the state's highways, bridges and tunnels and switch to electronic toll collection.
A preliminary report by the Maryland Transportation Authority concluded that converting its seven toll plazas is...Tags: U.S. Department of Transportation, Fort McHenry, Highway Transportation, Cecil County, Gaithersburg (Montgomery, Maryland)
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Kamenetz: Right but wrong
Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz's political blind spot on the issue of pensions apparently knows no bounds. A man who has secured for himself and some of his closest political associates a retirement benefit far beyond what ordinary county...Tags: Kevin Kamenetz, Local Government, Interior Policy, Labor Legislation, Pension and Welfare
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Job security not guaranteed for some Balto Co. unions
Earlier this year, Baltimore County promised job security through 2014 for members of three public employee unions, but county officials say they can't make the same guarantee for other labor groups. The Kamenetz administration is in talks with the...Tags: Unions, Baltimore County, Public Employees, Kevin Kamenetz, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Anne Arundel schools chief releases nearly $1 billion FY 2013 budget
The superintendent of Anne Arundel County's public schools has proposed a nearly $1 billion operating budget for the 2013 fiscal year, about $50 million more than the system was allotted this year.
"We have been good fiscal stewards of the money...Tags: Debt Market, Loans, Credit and Debt, Budgets and Budgeting, Anne Arundel County
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Advocates, union call for changes at mental hospital
Mental health advocates and labor union officials are calling for increased staffing and policy changes at the state's maximum security mental hospital — including a reassessment of how patients are paired as roommates — after one patient...Tags: Justice System, Mental Illness, Jessup (Anne Arundel, Maryland), Health and Medical Professionals, Judges
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Delaney puts up first television ad
John Delaney, a Democratic candidate in Maryland’s competitive 6th Congressional District, began running his first television advertisement Wednesday, a cable spot that highlights his middle-class roots, business background and focus on jobs. The...Tags: Elections, Television Industry, Primaries, Advertising
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Perkins hospital workers rally for more jobs
Workers at the Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center in Jessup held a rally Wednesday to urge state lawmakers to add more jobs at the troubled mental facility where three patients were killed in a 14-month span.
Gov. Martin O'Malley has included 93...Tags: Martin O'Malley, Murder, Hospitals and Clinics, Executive Branch, Conservation
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