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Residents who paid tickets want full audit of speed cameras
Matthias Manz isn't sure what to do. The Original Northwood resident's family received four speed camera tickets in the past three years and coughed up the $40 fine each time, trusting that the government wouldn't issue bogus citations. Now, with the...
Tags: Laws, Martin O'Malley, Government, Justice System, Montgomery County (Maryland)
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College still matters
Young people and their parents are rightly nervous these days about the economy. Many wonder whether their investment in a college education will pay off. Such worries are overblown. College graduates continue to do far better, even in this difficult...
Tags: Globalization, Science, Employment, Colleges and Universities, Employment Opportunities
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Hopkins pledges $10 million for neighborhoods
The Johns Hopkins University pledged Thursday to spend $10 million over the next five years to strengthen and stabilize neighborhoods near its North Baltimore campus. "The interests of our neighbors — safe streets, the elimination of blighted...
Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Station North, St. Paul Street, Colleges and Universities, Charles Village
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Aquarium generates more than $300 million for Maryland
Attendance at the National Aquarium this year is expected to tick up a little more than 1 percent to 1.33 million, but remains significantly below levels experienced several years ago before the recession. Still, an economic impact report to be released...
Tags: Sage, National Aquarium Baltimore, Tour Operations Industry, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Inner Harbor
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Don't confuse AWOL Board of Legislative Reference with Baltimore City Ethics Board
The Sun recently ran a front page, above-the-fold story under the headline, "Ethics Board Gone AWOL?" (Nov. 12). The story went on to report in some detail about the workings of the seven-member Board of Legislative Reference, a body established by the...Tags: Ethics, Values, Colleges and Universities, Johns Hopkins University
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Karen Lewand, preservationist
Karen Lewand, a preservationist and educator who launched a series of walking tours while establishing programs for children to learn about architecture, died of cancer Dec. 20 at her home in the Radnor-Winston section of North Baltimore. She was 67....Tags: Basilica of the Assumption, Chelsea (Staten Island, New York), Roman Catholicism, Colleges and Universities, Maryland Historical Trust
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Md. loses 3,100 jobs in November, Labor Department says
Maryland's economy shed 3,100 jobs in November, the latest U-turn in a bumpy year overshadowed by the fast-approaching "fiscal cliff," according to federal data released Friday. The U.S. Department of Labor also sharply revised downward its estimate...
Tags: Republican Party, Employment, Consumer Confidence, Unemployment, Employment Opportunities
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Harvey G. Alexander
Harvey G. Alexander, who founded and served as executive director of the Baltimore Film Festival and also read poetry on WBJC-FM, died Nov. 23 of pulmonary edema at Franklin Square Medical Center.
He was 77.
"I first got to know him in 1964 at Martick'...Tags: Libraries, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Radio, Annapolis, Colleges and Universities
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Kinyua guilty but not criminally responsible in Morgan beating
Months before he allegedly killed a family friend in Harford County, eating his heart and parts of his brain, Alexander Kinyua was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and believed reptilian aliens were coming to destroy Earth, a judge said Wednesday....
Tags: The Home Depot, Judges, Dismemberment, Justice System, Injuries and Wounds
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City's lucrative speed camera program dogged by problems
The Baltimore SunThe tractor-trailer hit 70 mph as it passed the Poly-Western high school campus on Cold Spring Lane, barreling down a turn lane at twice the legal speed limit. Or so the $40 citation claimed. Just before Falls Road, a pole-mounted speed camera clocked the...Tags: Mary Pat Clarke, Colleges and Universities, Judges, Xerox Corporation, Justice System
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Segregation suit reaches hands of federal judge
A lawsuit alleging that Maryland's historically black colleges and universities continue to suffer from policies that promote racial segregation is now in the hands of a federal judge, six years after it was first filed. U.S. District Judge Catherine C....Tags: University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Bowie State University, Colleges and Universities, Towson University, Morgan State University
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Leopold workers threaten suit over spying, harassment claims
Three of County Executive John R. Leopold's top aides have threatened to sue a co-worker for libel after she accused them of sexual harassment, spying and destroying documents. An attorney for the three aides wrote two letters to the co-worker...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Judges, Justice System, Witnesses, University of Maryland, College Park
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