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Md. schools concerned cuts will affect next school year
Federal education officials warned Wednesday of deep cuts to school systems such as Baltimore's if lawmakers fail to avert across-the-board spending reductions — leaving local schools uncertain how many teachers and programs they can retain next...
Tags: Labor Markets, U.S. Department of Education, Teaching and Learning, Budgets and Budgeting, Howard County
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Sequester is proof of Obama's incompetence
Regarding your recent editorial on the impending across-the-board cuts in federal spending, since the "sequester" plan originally was introduced by the White House, to call it a "GOP sequester" is a misnomer ("The GOP sequester," Feb. 22). If we had any...
Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Harry Reid, Elections, Barack Obama
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Where is the Democrats' plan to avoid sequestration?
Chicken Little is alive and well writing editorials for The Sun ("The GOP sequester," Feb. 22). The world will apparently come to an end when the sequester, better known as budget cuts, goes into effect on March 1. These budget cuts are apparently far...
Tags: Government Health Care, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Government Debt, Parties and Movements, Barack Obama
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Obama initiative aims to unravel mysteries of human brain
The White House proposed a sweeping new initiative Tuesday to map the individual cells and circuits that make up the human brain, a project that will give scientists a better understanding of how a healthy brain works and how to devise better treatments...
Tags: National Institutes of Health, Diseases and Illnesses, Health Insurance Cost, Alzheimer's Disease, Medical Research
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Social Security braces for budget cuts, frustrated public
Checks will arrive on time, but nearly every other task the Social Security Administration performs — from answering phones to determining eligibility for claims — will be delayed if Congress fails to stop steep federal budget cuts from taking...
Tags: National Institutes of Health, Barbara A. Mikulski, Benjamin L. Cardin, Government Debt, John Boehner
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Maryland becomes a liberal paradise
If you're a liberal living in Maryland, there's been plenty of reason to smile lately. The Old Line State continues to beat a steady path toward leading a new vanguard of progressive policy and politics in the United States. Let's start with last...
Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Martin O'Malley, Elections, Same-Sex Marriage, Barack Obama
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It's the 'Obama sequester'
I guess many of The Sun's readers are of the "low information" type who are not exposed to counter-points that would rebut the mantra of the left ("The GOP sequester," Feb. 22). Let me explain. Never in the history of this great nation have we gone four...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Harry Reid, Elections, Budgets and Budgeting
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Why the press must continue to challenge Obama on access
The Baltimore SunSince his golf outing with Tiger Woods, President Obama has been battling with the press over access. And things only look to get more contentious this week as we move toward sequester Friday. Here's a look at a wide-ranging discussion of the issues...Tags: Robert L. Gibbs, MSNBC (tv network), CBS Corp., Tiger Woods, CNN (tv network)
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Can the GOP reverse the damage done by Iraq?
Is the Iraq war to blame for the mess we are in? Now, I should qualify that question by explaining "mess" and "we." By "mess," I mean the dawn of Barack Obama's second term, the predictably catastrophic rollout of Obamacare, the exploding debt and...
Tags: Rand Paul, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Parties and Movements, Iraq War (2003-2011)
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Out of the White House and onto the dole
In this era of huge federal debt and fiscal dysfunction, it's less than heartening to learn from the Congressional Research Service that the nation's four living former chief executives got a total of $3.7 million in pensions and operating expenses last...
Tags: Finance, Pension and Welfare, George H.W. Bush, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
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Obama settles for half measures on gun control
For all the clamor from the White House and many in Congress to address the American scourge of gun violence, signs continue to point to a half-measure solution at best. President Barack Obama's State of the Union plea to the nation's lawmakers that the...
Tags: Patrick Leahy, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Personal Weapon Control, Dianne Feinstein, Barack Obama
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Romney's surprising post-mortem
After three months of licking the wounds of his defeat, Mitt Romney surfaced this week on Fox News with a somewhat unexpected rationale for his disappointing election outcome. What cost him the White House, he seemed to say, was what he loved to call...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Fox News Channel (tv network), Elections, Ann Romney
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