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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: Illegal Immigrants, Elections, Unemployment Benefits, Medicaid, Barack Obama
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Bel Air teen gets life sentence for August murder
Donnell Graham, the teenager who stabbed a Bel Air blind man to death last summer during a robbery in the victim's home, was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole. A large crowd showed up for Graham's sentencing hearing...Tags: Lawyers, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Government, Judges, Prisons
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Food stamp court battle ends as state steps up on-time record
After three years of intense scrutiny, a Baltimore judge has decided that the state had done enough to get poor Marylanders signed up quickly for food stamps, medical help and cash assistance — a decision that has advocates for the poor worried that...Tags: Employment, Judges, Baltimore County, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Employment Opportunities
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The new Jim Crow?
It is well documented that African-American and Hispanic men are arrested, convicted and jailed at far higher rates than whites, and that once they enter the prison system they usually serve longer terms as well. That's why the NAACP and the Maryland ACLU...
Tags: Minority Groups, Racism, Judges, Prisons, American Civil Liberties Union
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Life after college: high unemployment and depressed wages
They're facing high unemployment, depressed wages and loads of debt — and they're only in their 20s. Welcome to life after college.
Though the labor market is recovering slowly, graduates this spring have only slightly better chances of landing...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Demographics, Unemployment, Health and Safety at School, Colleges and Universities
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Baltimore targets 'food deserts'
More than a third of Baltimore neighborhoods don't have ready access to healthy foods, leaving one in five residents to rely on high-fat, high-calorie meals from corner stores and carryout restaurants, a new assessment shows.
City, academic and nonprofit...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Jones Falls Expressway, Diets and Dieting, Whole Wheat Bread, Restaurants
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Nonprofit transportation group convinces Giant to help it bus seniors to new store
Aleene Johnson was among a steady stream of seniors, some holding canes and reusable canvass grocery bags, who boarded a shuttle bus to the Rotunda Giant on March 15. Johnson, who lives in the Broadview Apartments on University Parkway, said she wasn't...Tags: Mary Pat Clarke, St. Patrick's Day, Mardi Gras, Belvedere Square, Public Transportation
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Food for Tomorrow
When Rodrigo Sutema and Dylan Goldberg started Food for Tomorrow - a project to raise money, food and awareness about hunger in Howard County - they anticipated it would last for about one month. More than a year later, the project is still going strong...
Tags: Schools, High Schools, Charity, Hurricane Irene (2011)
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The GOP's spendthrift ways
There's a tendency among some to shorthand the ongoing federal budget debate as between Republicans who want to reduce government spending and Democrats who don't. This isn't really the case, as recent actions in the House have demonstrated. On...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, White House, National Security, U.S. House Committee on Appropriations, Democratic Party
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Americans want cuts to the military, not the safety net
I'm appalled by the vote this week in the House of Representatives on the budget reconciliation bill ("The GOP's spendthrift ways," May 11). The House voted to cut spending on our social safety net, which protects the most vulnerable people in our...Tags: The Pentagon, Parties and Movements, Republican Party, Democratic Party
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Most rural Marylanders say, 'War? What war?'
Nobody asked me but . . .
This news, via MarylandReporter.com, might come as a shock to members of the General Assembly who believe the O'Malley administration is waging a "war on rural Maryland": A poll by OpinionWorks finds that 62 percent of...Tags: Elections, Taxation, State Income Tax, Wells Fargo & Co., Government
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Romney and class warfare
As the Republican presidential race moves to Nevada, land of roulette wheels, craps tables and slot machines, where dreams of quick riches are often broken, Mitt Romneycontinues to struggle with the political consequences of the millions he's made through...Tags: Elections, Warren Buffett, Republican Party, Newt Gingrich, Democratic Party
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