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County looks for balance in new general plan
In the next month, Howard County officials are hoping local residents will help vet a recently released draft of the county's new "Plan Howard 2030" general plan in a series of open houses and through an online comment portal. The document, an update...
Tags: Conservation, Public Transportation
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The keys to the car
One of the truisms of U.S. transportation planning has long been that each year, there will be more cars on the road. The logic of this is simple — as the population grows so does their need to get to places, and motor vehicles are by far the most...Tags: Passenger Cars, Amtrak, Public Transportation, Transportation, Republican Party
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A war on pollution, not rural Maryland
Don't be surprised if longtime "poop warriors" along theChesapeake Bay'sthickly populated Western Shore are not sympathetic to claims that builders in still-rural parts of the watershed should have unlimited use of septic tanks.
Those backyard sewage...Tags: Bodies of Water, Energy Saving, Population, Waste, Bodies of Water
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Haiti suffered in 1842 quake, too
Maryland WeatherSituated as it is on the edge of an active joint in the Earth's crustal plates, Haiti is no stranger to earthquakes. Baltimore Sun librarian Paul McCardell has pulled some clips from the Sun's archives of stories we published in......Tags: Earthquakes, Haiti, Martinsville (Martinsville, Virginia), Natural Disasters, Prisons
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Military bringing 'boon' and bust to Md.
Sun StaffON JUNE 3, on its front page, this paper - along with most others in the region - carried news that went to the heart of why we're not making good environmental progress. None of the articles mentioned the environment. They proclaimed only good news:...Tags: Wildlife, Productivity, Executive Branch, Endangered Species, Environmental Pollution
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Feeding the world, poisoning the planet
Sun StaffFirst of five articles AASEN, Netherlands -- Leopold Hendrick admits a visitor through the locked doors of the world's first bureaucracy dedicated to tracking and taxing animal waste, a kind of manure IRS. The government administrator apologizes for...Tags: Bodies of Water, England, Rivers, Skin Rash, Demographics
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Ehrlich comments made at expense of others
OUTSIDE Pimlico Race Course yesterday, there was Michael Steele, the lieutenant governor of Maryland. He was talking with a couple of horse breeders, Yu Wang and Richard Wang. This looked dangerous, and possibly un-American, as perceived by Robert L....Tags: Newt Gingrich, Minority Groups, Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Preakness Stakes
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Q&A: Ask the pediatrician! Dr. Diana Blythe answers your questions about kids' health
Have a question for Dr. Blythe? Write to her at AskThePediatrician@tribune.com
May 21, 2012
Q: My school-age children have been sick with colds lately and, because of conflicting information in the news, I'm still unsure about which over-the-counter...Tags: Bodies of Water, Time (magazine), Organic Foods, Seafood, Body Mass Index
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Saving bucks on bucks
Although Illinois officials have reduced the deer population by 14 percent over four years in an effort to control chronic wasting disease — in part through the use of sharpshooters — they are reconsidering their strategy.
The Department of...Tags: Conservation, Vaccines, DeKalb, Homer Glen, Prosecution
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March Madness, weather-wise
This year's late winter heat wave over much of the United States, dubbed "March Madness," has been cited as evidence that human-induced global warming is causing the climate system to stray far outside its normal range of variability. The thousands of...
Tags: Conservation, Marine Science, Global Change, NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament, Basketball
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Mailbag: Create open space at old City Hall site
The Newport Beach City Council is moving City Hall to a beautiful new site, and now they will vote on the use of the old site, possibly for residential development. Another recent plan calls for much of the public space to become a parking lot to...Tags: Political Systems, Horse (animal), Republican Party, Rentals, China
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