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5 questions … for Tracy Balazs, president and CEO of Federal Staffing Resources LLC
Tracy Balazs, the president and CEO of an Annapolis-based staffing firm, was named Entrepreneurial Success of the Year last month by the Baltimore district office of the U.S. Small Business Administration. She founded the company, Federal Staffing...
Tags: Annapolis, Hospitals and Clinics, Small Businesses, Corporate Officers, U.S. Department of Defense
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Motorcade for injured military members to move through region
A motorcade of police vehicles escorting wounded military service members from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to New York City will cause roving lane closures on multiple area highways Wednesday morning, according to Baltimore Police....
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, New York City
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From Key Highway to Key West, Lemle bikes for cancer awareness
It's more than 1,300 miles from Key Highway in Baltimore to Key West, Fla. — a car drive lasting a couple days or a flight lasting a few hours. Or, in the case of Howard County Education Association President Paul Lemle, an eight-day bike ride....
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Livestrong Foundation, Charlottesville (Charlottesville, Virginia), Key West, Back Pain
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Wounded veterans' partners get scholarships to UMUC
Two weeks after Beverly Poyer married her husband in 2007, he was deployed to Afghanistan. When he came home a year later, she was thrust into a role she hadn't expected: caregiver. Army Spc. Max Poyer, exposed to frequent mortar blasts in Afghanistan,...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, University of Maryland, College Park, Awards and Prizes, U.S. Department of Defense, Colleges and Universities
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Sacrifices lead to prime opportunity for G.G. Smith
Moving around has always been a big part of new Loyola basketball coach G.G. Smith's life. As a child whose father, Tubby, was a rising star in the college basketball coaching ranks, Smith spent time growing up in college towns like Columbia, S.C.,...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Gary Williams, Kentucky Wildcats, National Collegiate Athletic Association, College Basketball
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Federal firefighters push for shift-swap flexibility
When city or county firefighters have a family event or unexpected obligation pop up on a workday, their solution is familiar to most shift workers: They find a colleague willing to trade hours. But for the roughly 10,000 firefighters employed by the...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Mark Wright, National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Congress
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Marylander who died of rabies contracted disease from kidney transplant
The first Marylander to succumb to rabies since 1976 developed the virus through a kidney transplant that took place more than a year before the Army veteran died of the disease in February, national health and defense officials said Friday. Tests...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Defense, Disease Prevention, Viral Diseases and Infections, U.S. Department of Defense
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Md. military bases brace for reductions
Midshipmen at the Naval Academy could spend less time training at sea, some gates into Fort Meade could be shut down and routine maintenance at military installations across the state could be delayed under federal budget cuts set to begin Friday....
Tags: Annapolis, Hospitals and Clinics, Washington, DC, National Security Agency, Job Layoffs
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VFW helping veterans collect VA benefits
Dawn Brown left the Navy after 15 years when she developed Hodgkin's lymphoma. She lost her job as a secretary at a Baltimore school about a month before she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She didn't know that her military service qualified her for...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Prince George's County, U.S. Department of Defense, Injuries and Wounds, Hodgkin's Lymphoma
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Injured soldier gets double arm transplant
Brendan Marrocco sometimes looks down at his arms and can't believe they really exist. Until six weeks ago, the 26-year-old didn't have arms. He lost both of his, as well as his legs, in the Iraq War when the armored vehicle he was driving ran over a...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Iraq, Germany, Injuries and Wounds, Hurricane Sandy (2012)
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Martin Guitar makes custom guitar for blind veteran
Lt. Brad Snyder holds the acoustic guitar in his arms for the first time, strumming a few random chords, then moving into a sampling of Neil Young. The sounds take him back to the nights when he was deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan and sat around a...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Awards and Prizes, Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Emergency Incidents, Tom Petty
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Blinded Naval officer gets custom Martin guitar
Navy Lt. Brad Snyder holds the acoustic guitar in his arms for the first time, strums a few chords, then moves into a sampling of Neil Young. The sounds take the Naval Academy graduate back to the nights when he was deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan and...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Awards and Prizes, Tom Petty, Emergency Incidents, Afghanistan
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