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Retirees face the risk of outliving their money
Until recently, retirement planning focused mostly on helping workers accumulate savings. Now, the Treasury Department is tackling another aspect: making sure retirees don't run out of money. The department last week proposed two regulations to make...Tags: Employment, Employees, Insurance, Employment Opportunities, Employment
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Good-bye paper savings bonds
Technology has overtaken the U.S. savings bonds. After this year, you will no longer be able to buy a paper bond. All purchases will be made electronically. By going totally electronic, the government is expected to save $120 million over five years.
You...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Bonds
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Advocates, lawmakers plan fight to restore commuter tax break
Commuter advocates and Maryland lawmakers say they will fight to renew an expiring tax credit that benefits mass-transit users, including MARC riders.
Current federal law allows commuters to withhold up to $230 in pre-tax income each month that can be...Tags: Barack Obama, Commuting, Justice System, Tax Credits, Public Transportation
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Attorney: Manning showed signs of distress in Iraq
Military prosecutors building a case against the 24-year-old Army soldier accused of sending hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks sought to show Saturday that Pfc. Bradley Manning had access to the secret documents and the ability to...Tags: Minority Groups, Iraq, WikiLeaks, Justice System, Fort Meade (military base)
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Perryville has $1.3 million surplus, audit says
A representative with the accounting firm Weyrich, Cronin and Sorra reported that the town of Perryville ran a surplus of $1.3 million for the financial year that ended June 30. Reporting on the town's audit for the spending year, the representative...Tags: Festive Events, Local Government, Finance, Business Enterprises, Penn National Gaming
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Feds target mortgage modification scams
The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has teamed up with the Treasury Department and — this is a mouthful — the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program — to shutter mortgage modification...Tags: Mortgages, Companies and Corporations, U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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Feds investigating BWI flights to Cuba
It was undoubtedly exciting news: Baltimore would become one of the few spots in the U.S. offering flights to Cuba, a Communist nation largely off-limits to American travelers.
But one critical item had been overlooked: the paperwork.
The Florida travel...Tags: Advertising, Companies and Corporations, Fines, Havana (Cuba), County Road 46 (Suffolk, New York)
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We probably shouldn't attack Iran, but we shouldn't tell them that
Should we bomb Iran for plotting to blow up a Washington, D.C., restaurant in order to assassinate the Saudi ambassador?
Probably not.
Should Iran be worried that we might?
Absolutely.
And yet, within hours of the Justice Department charging...Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Military, Israel, Ronald Reagan, Foreign Aid
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Wells Fargo moves into a city it helped devastate
This weekend you may notice former Wachovia branches around Baltimore getting a makeover, swapping out their old logos for brand new Wells Fargo signs. While Wells Fargo has been busy promoting the new and improved services customers will receive,...Tags: Housing and Urban Planning, Foreclosures, Interior Policy, Minority Groups, Wachovia Corp.
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Post Office took shape through rain, sleet, bankruptcy, deaths
Last week we discussed the incarnations of the Westminster Post Office — but there are more stories to tell. In 1934, folks began to wonder if the "new" post office at the corner of Longwell Avenue and East Main Street would ever be finished. Of...Tags: Long Island, Financially Distressed Companies, Bankruptcy
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BWI flights to Cuba to start in March
A Tampa-based company plans to begin offering flights next spring from BWI-Marshall Airport to Cuba, where travel has been restricted since 1961, shortly after Fidel Castro took power and nationalized U.S.-owned businesses.
But visitors shouldn't count...Tags: Judaism, Companies and Corporations, Air Transportation, Baltimore County, 2010 Census
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Federal workers fret over debt talks
As the president and the speaker of the House intensified their debate over raising the nation's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling Monday night, the real world impact was reflected among Maryland federal workers like Jacqueline Hamilton. After 44 years of...Tags: Republican Party, Medicare, Barack Obama, Baltimore County, Government Health Care
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