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Bill would limit retirement benefits for some Balto. Co. workers
Some Baltimore County employees who retire in the future would receive smaller pensions under state legislation proposed by County Executive Kevin Kamenetz's administration. The measure, which has split the county's public employee unions, would save the...Tags: AFSCME, Judges, Justice System, Baltimore County, Kevin Kamenetz
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Workers 'outraged' by Kamenetz, former councilmen's pensions
The head of a Baltimore County public employees union says workers are outraged over the lucrative pension deals of County Executive Kevin Kamenetz and former councilmen Sam Moxley and Vince Gardina.
An amendment to a 2010 pension reform law allowed...Tags: Justice System, Layoffs and Downsizing, Kenneth N. Oliver, Cathy Bevins, Judges
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Government workers are not the 1 percent
Once again, Marta Mossburg displays her disturbing obsession with public employees, as she plays the apologist for the wealthiest Marylanders ("In Maryland, your taxes support many of the one percent," Dec. 7). Ms. Mossburg is again muddying the waters...Tags: AFSCME, Scott Walker, Annapolis, Interior Policy, Personal Income
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AFGE leader John Gage to retire
John Gage, who has served as president of the American Federation of Government Employees for nearly a decade, said Tuesday he intends to retire later this summer to spend more time with his family. "I have a growing family that I've kind of neglected,"...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Unions, Barack Obama, Civil and Public Service, White House
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Annapolis dines at federal taxpayers' expense
Gov. Martin O'Malleyand Maryland Democrats developed a creative yet questionable fix for their budget woes in a special session of the General Assembly last month. Governor O'Malley performed budgetary acrobatics by leveraging Maryland's geography and the...
Tags: Montgomery County (Maryland), Democratic Party, Regional Authority, Annapolis, Government
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Teachers take over Harford council meeting, plead for help
Harford County teachers took their protest over lack of raises and other contract issues to the county council meeting Tuesday night, packing the chamber in Bel Air as the council got ready to vote on the 2013 county budget. Before the meeting, dozens of...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Pension and Welfare, Budgets and Budgeting, Teachers, Annapolis
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Three city fire companies could close permanently
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake would permanently close three fire companies and could shut several recreation centers in an effort to close a $48 million gap in the city's $3 billion operating budget, according to city officials who have been briefed on...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Local Government, Edward L. Reisinger III, Government, Fires
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Federal workers take $15B hit in payroll tax deal
Federal employees will be required to contribute $15 billion toward the cost of extending federal unemployment insurance under a tentative agreement struck in Congress that would also maintain the 2010 payroll tax break, federal worker union officials...Tags: Montgomery County (Maryland), Christopher Van Hollen Jr., Justice System, Insurance, Unemployment
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Fed workers to help cover payroll agreement's cost
New federal employees would contribute more than triple the amount paid by current government workers for their retirement under an agreement reached in Congress, according to two Maryland lawmakers who helped craft the deal to extend a payroll tax...Tags: Parties and Movements, National Institutes of Health, Montgomery County (Maryland), Democratic Party, Christopher Van Hollen Jr.
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Obama proposes 'modest' federal pay raise
The White House has proposed a modest half-percent pay raise for civilian federal employees beginning next year — a move that would affect thousands of Maryland workers. If the across-the-board raise is approved by Congress, it would end a 2-year-...Tags: Montgomery County (Maryland), National Security, Jeff Sessions, Roscoe G Bartlett, National Security Agency
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Smoking programs not keeping pace
Most states, including Maryland, are not doing enough to protect the public from tobacco or prevent related disease, according to the latest assessment from the American Lung Associationdue out today.
In its 10th annual State of Tobacco Control Report...Tags: Medicaid, Health Insurance, Pharmaceuticals, American Lung Association, Health Insurance Cost
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Taking stock of Buck Showalter after a long year in Baltimore
In recent weeks, the man I call the most interesting manager in the world has looked like the most irritated manager in the world as he scowls away in the Orioles dugout. Then again, I would be pretty ticked off, too, if the Yankees put up double digits...Tags: Prosecution, New York Yankees, Baltimore Orioles, Dylan Bundy, Brad Bergesen
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