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Ann K. Crane, personnel director
Ann K. Crane, who went to the wrong place in Dundalk when applying for a job and ended up staying there anyway for nearly a quarter of a century, died Wednesday from heart failure at Oak Crest Village. She was 93. The daughter of immigrant Lithuanian...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Parkville, Dundalk
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Movie jobs are a 'House of Cards'
Gov. Martin O'Malley says the Netflix series "House of Cards" brought $140 million into the state's economy ("'Cards' a good deal, Md. Says," April 30). Where have we heard this before? In 2010 the Detroit Free Press reported that "Michigan's bid to...
Tags: Martin O'Malley, Jennifer Granholm, Freedom of the Press, Executive Branch, Harford County
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General Motors unveils its new electric motor in White Marsh
General Motors officially launched its new electric motor in White Marsh Tuesday, a milestone in U.S. manufacturing — and a key part of the company's bet that the electric-vehicle market is poised to grow. With production under way at the...
Tags: Plant Openings, Ellicott City, Labor Markets, Automotive Equipment, South Korea
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Detroit's decline
Since the Motown sound went silent -- except on oldies stations -- and General Motors and Chrysler (but not Ford) required life support from Washington, there has been little to recommend Detroit, Mich., to visitors, much less its residents. The...
Tags: The New York Times, Corporate Crime, Labor Legislation, Organized Crime, Kwame Kilpatrick
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Leaving Sparrows Point for jobs in other states
Joshua Polanowski was one of the first to go. He drove south in his 15-year-old GMC pickup truck, leaving behind freezing cold and a forever-closed steel mill for a balmy winter and a choice of manufacturing jobs. Forrest and Lacey Martin followed...
Tags: United Steelworkers, Plant Openings, Manufacturing and Engineering, Dundalk, Skype
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Who pays for electric cars?
In an article about how some employers allow their employees to charge their electric cars at work, reporter Lorraine Mirabella describes the General Motors plant in White Marsh where employees can charge their cars as an employee benefit during work...
Tags: Employees, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Passenger Cars, Hybrid Vehicles, White Marsh
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McCabe Avenue housing rehab project gets big financial lift
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation has awarded Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake a $1 million grant to rehab more than 50 dilapidated row houses in three struggling neighborhoods of Baltimore City, including Woodbourne McCabe, where 21...
Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Homes, Housing and Urban Planning, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Property
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Workplaces offer electric car charging for employees
Employees at General Motors' plant in White Marsh have an unusual workplace benefit. Anyone who drives an electric car can plug it in to charge while they work. At the plant, which produces transmissions and electric motors, workers can park their...
Tags: Employees, Employment, Nissan, Hybrid Vehicles, Google Inc.
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UMBC students use new media to document a dying industrial past
When Eddie Bartee started working at the Sparrows Point steel mill in 1955, about 35,000 men toiled at the eastern Baltimore County plant. Over the next four decades, he made a comfortable life for his wife and their six children as he moved through the...
Tags: Plant Openings, Anthropology, Colleges and Universities, Students, Culture
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Part four: Bankruptcy Inc.
Somewhere in the third year of Tribune Co.'s marathon Chapter 11 proceeding, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Carey looked out at a Delaware courtroom packed with high-priced attorneys and conceded the case had broken down into what he called a...
Tags: Seton Hall University, Bonds, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Financially Distressed Companies, Oaktree Capital Management
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Obama for president
Barack Obama has not been a perfect president. Millions are still suffering from a weak economy, vitally important issues like climate change and immigration remain all but unaddressed, and most disappointingly, the promise of a new politics to move us...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), Government Health Care, Same-Sex Marriage, White House
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Federal workers don't know sacrifice
After a 45-year career in the private sector, first with Bethlehem Steel, then with Harley Davidson Motor Company and ending with General Motors, I lost wages, medical benefits and pensions when these companies were not making profits. Federal workers...Tags: Employees, Bethlehem Steel
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