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The most qualified Harford school chief candidate works a mere two blocks away [Commentary]
Call me befuddled if you wish, but I still don't get the Harford County Board of Education's decision to name an interim superintendent for up to year while the board takes its time to find a permanent replacement for Robert Tomback. On Monday night,...
Tags: Local Elections, Government, Teaching and Learning, Regional Authority, Elections
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Boxing Obama in
Greater than the risk of being accused of criminality in the three scandals now gripping the Obama administration is the peril that the president's substantive agenda is being hopelessly knocked off track. The liberal Illinois senator who entered the...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Darrell E Issa, Government, Richard Nixon, White House
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Top O'Malley aide Guillory to leave governor's office
The Baltimore SunGov. Martin O'Malley's communications director and long-time aide Raquel Guillory will leave the governor's office at the end of the month for another job in state goverment. Guillory, who worked for O'Malley when he was mayor and in the State House, is...Tags: Government, Regional Authority, Martin O'Malley
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Gill sworn in as natural resources chief
Gov. Martin O'Malley swore in Joseph P. Gill as Secretary of Natural Resources Tuesday, replacing John R. Griffin at the top of the 1,200-employee agency. Griffin has been named to replace Matt Gallagher as the governor's chief of staff as of June 1....
Tags: Energy Resources, Conservation, Natural Resources, Government, Regional Authority
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Rawlings-Blake press secretary moves to Fire Department
The Baltimore SunMayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's press secretary is leaving the mayor's office to become the spokesman for the city's fire department. Ian Brennan, who also served as a spokesman for former Mayor Sheila Dixon, will replace Kevin Cartwright, who...Tags: Sheila Dixon, Local Government, Annapolis, Government, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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Fix city jail by tearing up officers' 'bill of rights'
I have followed national news reports of 13 correctional officer involved in partnership activities with inmates as well as four female correctional officers getting pregnant by inmates ("Alleged gang leader in poor jail conditions, his lawyer says,"...
Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), Government, U.S. Army, Prisons, Martin O'Malley
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Election season starts early [Editorial]
Maryland's primary may be 13 months away, but ready or not, the 2014 election campaign cycle is about to hit full stride. If it seems early, it is. With the primary now in June instead of September, new legislative districts, and an existing law that...Tags: Government, Ken Ulman, Howard County, Elections
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The cost of BGE reliability
Baltimore Gas & Electric certainly isn't likely to win any popularity contests. It secured a rate increase from the Public Service Commission in February — its second in the last three years — and turned around and filed a request for...
Tags: Pikesville, Global Change, Consumers, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Government
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Martin O'Malley makes it to the Oval Office -- But it's not the one in Washington
The Baltimore SunI saw it with my own eyes -- Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley standing centerstage Tuesday in the Oval Office. Only it wasn't the one in Washington. It did, though, make for a light but fascinating kind of political-pop-culture-meta moment. O'Malley...Tags: Government, Regional Authority, Robin Wright, Veep (tv program), Martin O'Malley
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Officials' phone records show political, personal contacts
Days before last November’s election, Gov. Martin O’Malley used his cellphone to call Jim Murren, the chief executive of MGM Resorts International in Las Vegas. The two talked for 11 minutes that Sunday. Not surprisingly, the topic was the...
Tags: Kevin Kamenetz, Bruce Springsteen, Government, Ken Ulman, Regional Authority
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$1 billion for new city schools: From non-starter to law
Baltimore schools chief Andrés Alonso went to Annapolis last year seeking approval for a bold $2 billion plan to replace many of the city system's crumbling buildings. The idea didn't even make it out of committee. Prospects still looked bleak in...
Tags: Michael E. Busch, Government, Teaching and Learning, Inner Harbor, Finance
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The newest thing in Maryland horse racing: optimism
The Kentucky Derby winner and oddsmakers' favorite for the Preakness Stakes isn't exactly a Maryland horse, but he's close — Orb is partially owned by a Baltimore County businessman, and his sire spent some time in Harford County. Attendance at...
Tags: Pimlico Race Course, Government, Horse and Harness Racing, Finance, Triple Crown
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