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New police commander no stranger to Towson
Even though he's barely been in charge of the Towson precinct for a week, Capt. Richard Howard is no stranger to operations there. When Howard was working most recently in the community resources division at Baltimore County Police headquarters on Joppa...
Tags: Armed Forces, Towson, Dwayne Johnson, Conservation
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Amateur airplane builders aren't deterred by fatal crash
Wings stood off to one side. The propeller lay in a carton. But the main part of Carl Kesselring's pet project was clearly recognizable as an airplane in progress. "I don't have fear of getting in an airplane," he said, standing in a hangar in...
Tags: Transportation Accidents, Clarksville, Broken Nose, IBM, Federal Aviation Administration
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Airline baggage and reservation change fees hit record, but you can avoid them
As you shop for airfare for your summer vacation, don’t overlook the cost of fees for bags or changing a reservation that can add quite a bit to your travel bill. Airlines collected a record $6.1 billion last year in these fees, according to the...
Tags: Transportation, Air Transportation, Southwest Airlines Co., American Airlines, Inc.
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Five Md. air traffic towers will remain open
Five air traffic control towers in Maryland that are part of 149 "low activity" towers nationwide will remain open through the end of the September, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced Friday. The towers, including those at Martin State...
Tags: Baltimore County, U.S. Congress, Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation
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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: Personal Weapon Control, Republican Party, White House, Layoffs and Downsizing, Budget Control Act of 2011
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Only an incompetent government would resort to a tactic like the sequester
The government's handling of the sequester is a perfect example of how inept it is ("Lawmakers ease airline delays," April 27). A business would lay off employees who are not essential to its operations. The government lays off the air traffic...
Tags: Air Transportation Delays, Pikesville
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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: U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Ray LaHood, Justice System, White House, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Southwest fined for late, incomplete action on consumer complaints
Southwest Airlines was fined $150,000 Wednesday for failing to respond to consumer complaints in a timely fashion, the Department of Transportation announced. Federal enforcement officers found that the Dallas-based airline did not answer "a large...
Tags: AirTran, Punishment, Consumers, Fines, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport
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First phase of $100 million BWI upgrade opens to passengers
The future of BWI Marshall Airport can be seen in the new sweeping terminal roofline that hints of something big, the panorama of glass that gives street-side passengers a view of arriving jets and a cavernous security checkpoint with nine stations and...
Tags: AirTran, URS Corporation, Ellicott City, Spirit Airlines, Concourse
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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: Steny Hoyer, Breast Cancer, White House, Chemotherapy, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Who should we furlough, air traffic controllers or Congress?
The average air traffic controller works 230 days a year and does a flawless job ("Sequester disrupts airline passengers," April 23). There have been no major airlines crashes in nearly a decade. The average member of Congress, on the other hand,...
Tags: U.S. Congress
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