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Don't blame Fort McHenry for the sequester
Fort McHenry National Monument commemorates the Battle of Baltimore and Francis Scott Key's creation of The Star-Spangled Banner. There were more than 640,000 visitors to the fort in 2011, and they spent $44 million in the Baltimore area. Fort McHenry,...
Tags: Fort McHenry, Francis Scott Key, National Parks, Budgets and Budgeting, Gardens and Parks
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Park service says police furloughs no longer needed
The National Park Service has announced that it no longer needs to furlough U.S. Park Police. The announcement came after Park Police officers — who patrol the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and several sites in Maryland — had served three of...Tags: Fort McHenry, Layoffs and Downsizing, Defense, Trials, U.S. Congress
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The sequester gives Obama one more chance to blow it
In President Barack Obama's running argument with the Republicans in Congress over who's responsible for the legislative stalemate on Capitol Hill, he suffers self-inflicted wounds by continuing to run up the same white flag that undermined his own...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Layoffs and Downsizing, Elections, Economic Stimulus Plan, White House
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An Annapolis tradition, grounded
My town, Annapolis, is a special kind of college town. The students at the Naval Academy are distinctive not for their backpacks, ear buds and school T-shirts, but for their crisp summer whites and their somber dress blues. The midshipmen take off...
Tags: Graduation, Annapolis, Memorial Stadium, White House, Ceremonies
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Housing shows life; can the economy be far behind?
The latest indicator that the U.S. economy is on the upswing can probably be found on the street where you live: It's the "sold" sign planted in the neighbor's yard. Perhaps you hadn't noticed, but the real estate industry is not the moribund mess you...
Tags: Housing Industry, Nikkei, Japan, Government Debt, Labor Markets
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Transcript of Obama's remarks to U.S. Naval Academy graduates
Hello, Midshipmen! (Applause.) Well, thank you, Governor O'Malley, for your kind introduction and the great support that Maryland gives this Academy. To Secretary Mabus, Admiral Greenert, General Paxton -- thank you all for your incredible leadership of...
Tags: Afghanistan, U.S. Navy, White House, U.S. Congress, Hurricane Sandy (2012)
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Obama to address Naval Academy commencement
President Barack Obama will travel to Annapolis to speak at the Naval Academy commencement today, addressing the class at a time when the military faces complicated internal challenges the graduating midshipmen will soon inherit. It is the second time...
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Defense, U.S. Military, Chuck Hagel, Annapolis
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President's remarks at Ellicott Dredges
Remarks by President Barack Obama this afternoon at Ellicott Dredges in Baltimore, from the White House. THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Baltimore! (Applause.) Well, it is wonderful to see all of you. Give Duncan a big round of applause for the great...
Tags: U.S. Senate, John Sarbanes, Apple iPad, Computer Hardware, White House
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Veterans, advocates brace for cutbacks
The Maryland Center for Veterans Education and Training's Baltimore complex is full of neatly made beds and shining-clean floors, a military-like environment for homeless former service members working to get their lives back on track. Its executive...Tags: Rentals, Layoffs and Downsizing, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
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Obama's balanced plan to create jobs, cut deficit
President Barack Obama's Fiscal Year 2014 budget is a concrete plan to create jobs and cut the deficit. We do not need to choose between these two priorities. The president's balanced, compromise plan proves we can do both. The guiding principle...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Labor Markets, Budgets and Budgeting, White House, U.S. Congress
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Md. airport towers appear safe from federal cuts
Five air traffic control towers in Maryland that had been scheduled to shut down in June as a result of federal budget cuts are now expected to remain open, lawmakers said Wednesday — easing fears that the closures could back up flights at BWI...
Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Ray LaHood, FedEx Corporation, White House, U.S. Congress
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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: Layoffs and Downsizing, Elections, Air Transportation Delays, Chemotherapy, Health Treatments
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