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Social control on black Baltimoreans must be made more transparent
I applaud the Maryland Court of Appeals' ruling that state police must give the NAACP access to internal affairs files on racial profiling complaints ("State police must turn over racial profiling complaints to the NAACP," Jan. 24). These cases...Tags: Sociology, Racism, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Lung Cancer, Heart Disease
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The budget: What to cut and what to keep
I totally disagree with Richard L. Ottenheimer's comments that Republicans are trying to blow up the economy ("Chickenomics: A winning GOP strategy?" Jan. 22). It's not a Republican or Democratic thing, it's an American thing, or just smart economics....
Tags: Finance, Parties and Movements, Republican Party
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Letter: Republican Party needs to focus its message, not change it
There has been much discussion in the weeks since the 2012 election about the Republican Party and its current state. Losing an election often prompts a lot of hand-wringing by the defeated party and rejoicing by those on the other side of the aisle....Tags: Public Officials, Parties and Movements, Republican Party, Mitt Romney, Government
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500 steelworkers turn out to receive United Way holiday meals
For years, Jeff Mikula collected United Way donations from his fellow steelworkers at Sparrows Point. On Thursday, he — and 500 former co-workers from the now-closed plant — stood in line to receive them. The Dundalk man, who worked as an...
Tags: Auction Service, Unemployment Benefits, Holidays, Layoffs and Downsizing, AFL-CIO
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Hampden Family Center plays Santa to children who need help at holidays
Blayr Callaway, 19, who is raising her 8-year-old niece as well as her 2-year-old daughter, was in a familiar setting, at the Hampden Family Center's annual Holiday Party. It's the center Callaway comes to throughout the year for social services ranging...
Tags: Union Memorial Hospital, Holidays, Roland Park, Anglicanism, Christianity
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Disabled Marylanders join class action over delayed benefits
Citing a severe and chronic backlog, advocacy groups have filed a class-action lawsuit accusing the state of failing low-income and disabled Marylanders by regularly taking nearly a year to approve medical assistance applications.
The lawsuit, filed last...Tags: Justice System, Diabetes, Health Insurance, Employment, Medicaid
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The hoax of 'entitlement reform'
It has become accepted economic wisdom that the only way to get control over America's looming budget deficits is to "reform entitlements." The accepted wisdom is wrong. Republicans trot out federal budget data showing a 32 percent increase in...
Tags: Finance, Unemployment Benefits, Health Insurance Cost, Health Insurance, Medicaid
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Hope, cynicism run high for second Obama term
— Four years after he rode into the White House on a message of change, President Barack Obama is set to begin his second term Monday amid lowered expectations and a sense that his re-election has done little to alter the nation's fractured...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Parties and Movements, Interior Policy, U.S. Department of Education, Gun Control
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Love grows among coal-mining poverty in Venus Theatre's 'Claudie Hukill'
"Claudie Hukill," on stage at Venus Theatre on C Street through Dec. 23, is a play about a poor family, struggling to survive hard economic times and personal tragedies in a West Virginia mining town. Set in 1972, the play is filled with generational,...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Newspaper and Magazine, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Physical Conditions, Metal and Mineral
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Glenwood/Glenelg/Dayton: Food pantry gets some help, but still needs more
The Glenelg United Methodist Church Food Pantry continues to serve over 30 families each month. The outreach has spread to Columbia and Elkridge, where it seems that word of mouth brings new visitors each month. In November, the food pantry gave out...Tags: Schools, Elementary Schools, Music Industry, Music, Holidays
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Marylanders brace for taxes as part of 'fiscal cliff' deal
Regardless of whether the president and Congress strike a deal or take the nation headfirst over the "fiscal cliff," federal taxes for some Marylanders will increase next year — and under some scenarios the pain could be worse than in other states....
Tags: John Boehner, Taxation, Unemployment Benefits, Income Tax, Apple iPhone
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Don't make kids bear the brunt of the fiscal cliff
As the federal "fiscal cliff" approaches, an important group of Marylanders with a lot on the line has been largely ignored: children. The stakes are immense, because the recession has been hard on Maryland children, with one out of every seven living...
Tags: Taxation, Unemployment Benefits, Annapolis, Barbara A. Mikulski, Fiscal Cliff
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