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5 questions … for Tracy Balazs, president and CEO of Federal Staffing Resources LLC
Tracy Balazs, the president and CEO of an Annapolis-based staffing firm, was named Entrepreneurial Success of the Year last month by the Baltimore district office of the U.S. Small Business Administration. She founded the company, Federal Staffing...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Army, Conservation, Corporate Officers, SUNY Nassau Community College
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Amateur airplane builders aren't deterred by fatal crash
Wings stood off to one side. The propeller lay in a carton. But the main part of Carl Kesselring's pet project was clearly recognizable as an airplane in progress. "I don't have fear of getting in an airplane," he said, standing in a hangar in...
Tags: IBM, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Air and Space Accidents, Clarksville, Laurel
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Five Md. air traffic towers will remain open
Five air traffic control towers in Maryland that are part of 149 "low activity" towers nationwide will remain open through the end of the September, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced Friday. The towers, including those at Martin State...
Tags: U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Transportation, Air Transportation Industry, Baltimore County
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Investigators open probe into airplane crash that killed father and son
Federal investigators began examining Monday the wreckage of a two-seater, home-built airplane that crashed Sunday in Virginia, killing a man from Davidsonville and his son from Westminster, the father of 10 children. On Saturday, experimental...
Tags: Accidental Death, Timonium, Fort Detrick (military base), Air and Space Accidents, Cambridge (Dorchester, Maryland)
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The sequester gives Obama one more chance to blow it
In President Barack Obama's running argument with the Republicans in Congress over who's responsible for the legislative stalemate on Capitol Hill, he suffers self-inflicted wounds by continuing to run up the same white flag that undermined his own...
Tags: World War I (1914-1918), Budget Control Act of 2011, U.S. Senate, Interior Policy, Government
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Two Baltimore-area residents killed in small plane crash in Virginia
Two Baltimore-area residents were killed in a small plane crash in Virginia on Saturday, the Virginia State Police said Sunday. The men were identified as Berry Raymond Newgent, 73, of Davidsonville, and Thomas Berry Newgent, 51, of Westminster. Berry...
Tags: Accidental Death, Air and Space Accidents, Transportation Accidents
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Five questions for Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee cut his teeth on public-private partnerships 26 years ago as a Lehman Brothers executive in charge of financing projects in Asia. He put together a consortium of local investors to build a $1.8 billion, 12-mile toll road in Bangkok....
Tags: Hunt Valley, Maryland Department of Transportation, Annapolis, Government, Port of Baltimore
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Md. airport towers appear safe from federal cuts
Five air traffic control towers in Maryland that had been scheduled to shut down in June as a result of federal budget cuts are now expected to remain open, lawmakers said Wednesday — easing fears that the closures could back up flights at BWI...
Tags: Government Debt, FedEx Corporation, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Barbara A. Mikulski, Budget Control Act of 2011
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Congress flies blind
What does it require to get members of Congress to take action quickly and decisively on an issue of federal spending? Now we know. The possibility that they will be delayed in an airport terminal somewhere waiting for a flight out of town is apparently...
Tags: Breast Cancer, Budget Control Act of 2011, Unemployment Benefits, Chemotherapy, Air Transportation Delays
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BWI weather observers at risk in federal aviation cuts
While the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday approved a Senate plan to avoid furloughs of air traffic controlllers, positions responsible for weather observation at BWI Marshall Airport and other airports across the country are at risk. The Federal...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Weather Reports, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, U.S. Senate, Air Transportation Industry
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About 400 U.S. flights delayed as sequestration takes hold
Sequestration is starting to frustrate air travelers. About 400 flights were delayed Sunday because of air traffic controller furloughs, the Federal Aviation Administration said, and a few more interruptions were reported Monday, though the nation's air...
Tags: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, LaGuardia Airport, Jay Carney, Budgets and Budgeting, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport
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Aiming high in federal contracting
As federal agencies pull back on spending, 7Delta's strategy is thinking big. The Columbia information technology firm, which grew by focusing on work for one federal agency, is going after larger contracts and broadening its reach. It's a...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Business, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Healthcare Industry, Government Contracts
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