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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: Employment Opportunities, Diabetes, Health Care Reform (2009), Conservation, Personal Income
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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: U.S. Congress, Income Tax, Barack Obama, John Boehner, Fiscal Cliff
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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: Pikesville, John Boehner, Interior Policy, U.S. Senate, Public Finance
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The other, more dangerous, cliffs
The "fiscal cliff" isn't nearly the biggest cliff we face -- if we're talking about dangerous precipices looming on the horizon. Here are three: The child poverty cliff. A staggering number of our children are impoverished. Between 2007 and 2011, the...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Fiscal Cliff, Medicare, Medicaid, Family
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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: U.S. Congress, Unemployment, Fiscal Cliff, U.S. House of Representatives, Personal Income
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A nun quietly rebukes 'I built that'
— Let's talk about the other speech. No, not Bill Clinton's 48-minute stemwinder to the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night that was so mesmerizing even Republicans praised it. Instead, let's offer a little nod of affirmation for...
Tags: Sociology, The Miami Herald, Barack Obama, Landforms, Mitt Romney
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The second debate: Obama wins on style, Romney on substance
In form, President Barack Obama came back strongly in Tuesday's debate with Mitt Romney, but substantively he continues to lag behind the Republican candidate. That's because the president has a record to defend, and it isn't a good one. Television being...
Tags: Elections, Barack Obama, Tom Coburn, Mitt Romney, White House
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Hunger pains
In the first two weeks after Hurricane Sandy battered the Mid-Atlantic region, leaving millions without power, relief agencies provided an estimated 4.9 million meals to the victims — the equivalent of 150 tractor-trailer loads of food. That was a...
Tags: Elections, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Nutrition, Thanksgiving, Barack Obama
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Congressional candidate profiles
MEET THE CANDIDATES When Marylanders head to the polls Nov. 6, they will elect members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in addition to casting their ballots for president. Dozens of people are running for a chance to represent the...Tags: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Viral Diseases and Infections, Conservation, University of Pittsburgh, Benjamin L. Cardin
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Mitt Romney's question-mark economy
We're closing in on Election Day, but the questions about what Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan would do if elected are only growing larger. Rarely before in American history has a presidential ticket campaigned on such a blank slate. Yet, paradoxically, not...
Tags: Elections, Robert B. Reich, Barack Obama, Labor Legislation, Paul Ryan
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Sun whistling past economic Armageddon
Any notion that The Sun is not liberally biased has been completely dispelled by this ludicrous editorial that portends to put a positive "spin" on an economy teetering on the precipice of financial Armageddon ("Doing better than 'fine,'" June 12)....Tags: Timonium
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Letter: Including low-income housing in high-end Columbia makes little sense
On Sept. 27, your papers published a bizarre story about professional low-income affordable housing advocates lobbying the Howard County government to include affordable low-income housing in the future high-end pricey Columbia downtown residential...Tags: Poverty, Personal Income, Whole Foods Market
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