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Aberdeen mayor, council salaries could go up significantly
The salary for any future mayors of Aberdeen would be more than doubled and the salary for city council members nearly doubled, if a bill introduced by the city council Monday night is approved. The mayor would get a salary of $24,000 instead of the...Tags: Local Elections, Ethics, Values, Earth Day, Havre de Grace
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Future of Howard's contingent firefighter program remains unsettled
While Lisbon volunteer firefighters are moving forward as if the contingent firefighter program will remain in place come July, Howard County Fire Chief Bill Goddard said the future of the program has yet to be decided. "We're making progress, short...
Tags: Lisbon (Portugal)
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City schools budget includes new academic endeavors
Baltimore school officials unveiled a $1.174 billion budget plan Tuesday, which they said focuses on academics with a new science team to implement curriculum, programs for advanced students and a shifting of staff in the central office. Enrollment is...
Tags: Conservation, Students, Collective Contract, Teaching and Learning, Financial Aid
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Harford school board recognizes Education Hall of Famers
Two Hall of Famers came before the Harford County Board of Education Monday, but neither had played for the Orioles or the Ravens – although one of them once coached an Oriole who is in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Regardless, each were heroes to...Tags: Public Schools, Schools, Teaching and Learning, Aberdeen, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
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Fire department to cut diversity-minded recruitment division
A Baltimore Fire Department division developed to increase recruitment among black city residents and combat racial tensions within the department's ranks is set to be eliminated in a planned round of budget cutbacks. The move has caused concerns...
Tags: Minority Groups, Racism, NAACP, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Harford Stormwater Management Fund reduced to 10 percent
While Harford County property owners are set to get some relief, by having to pay 10 percent of a $125 annual stormwater fee, Department of Public Works officials must deal with only having 10 percent of their initially-allocated budget next year....Tags: Finance, Harford County
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The myths that undermine Medicare and Social Security
The talk in Washington and among opinion leaders around the country's budget issues today centers on "balance" and "responsibility." Many conservatives declare that these terms mean that there should be no new revenue, only spending cuts to programs...
Tags: Health Insurance, Finance, U.S. Congress, Health Insurance Cost, Congressional Budget Office
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Our biggest problem is not deficits
"Our biggest problems over the next 10 years are not deficits," President Barack Obama told House Republicans last week, according to those who attended the meeting. The president needs to deliver the same message to the public, loudly and clearly....
Tags: Republican Party, Unemployment, Finance, White House, Productivity
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Bel Air pondering changes to county's courthouse area
Bel Air town officials plan to replace the brick sidewalk and plantings along the Office Street side of the grounds of the Harford County Circuit Courthouse, and hope to convince county leaders to improve the courthouse grounds. "Our plan is to try to...
Tags: Local Government, Justice System, Energy Saving, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning
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Korean War veterans donate $1,000 to Harford Co. Public Library
A group of Korean War veterans presented a $1,000 donation to the Harford County Public Library Thursday in an effort to support library programs to commemorate this year's 60th anniversary of the end of the war. Six members of Maryland Chapter 33 of...Tags: Music, U.S. Army, Finance, Literature, Korean War (1950-1953)
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About 400 U.S. flights delayed as sequestration takes hold
Sequestration is starting to frustrate air travelers. About 400 flights were delayed Sunday because of air traffic controller furloughs, the Federal Aviation Administration said, and a few more interruptions were reported Monday, though the nation's air...
Tags: Republican Party, Federal Aviation Administration, Unemployment, Kennedy Airport, Jay Carney
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Baltimore County's balancing act
In Baltimore County, like much of Maryland, tax revenues have flat-lined. State aid for such things as road resurfacing is not much better. County workers won't be receiving cost-of-living increases for the fifth year in a row. Yet amid all this...
Tags: Taxation, Kevin Kamenetz, Baltimore County
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