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O's fans unhappy as WJZ cuts over to '60 Minutes'
John Lanahan Jr. was spending Sunday afternoon at St. Agnes Hospital with his father, who was recovering from an allergic reaction. The two Orioles fans planned to watch the game against perennial favorite Boston Red Sox. Then disaster struck. As the...Tags: Baltimore Orioles, Chris Davis, Hospitals and Clinics, Allergies, Deacon Jones
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Carroll County schools to impose higher standard for extracurricular eligibility
Carroll County Public Schools will implement a higher academic requirement next school year for high school students participating in extracurricular activities — a move that school officials said has been under consideration for some time, but...Tags: High Schools, Advanced Training, Students, Schools, High School Sports
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Constellation's three coal plants to find new owner by year's end
While Constellation Energy Group has a new owner in Exelon Corp., 450 workers at three coal-fired plants once owned by the Baltimore company are in limbo.
As a condition of its purchase of Constellation last month, the Chicago energy giant has...Tags: Baltimore County, Environmental Politics, Exelon Corp., Petroleum Industry, Finance
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Editorial: New option 'green' certification could aid tax credit process
Few will deny that "green" is good. In new home construction, that means an energy-conserving building is a worthy goal that deserves public support. In Baltimore County, that support also includes tax abatement. Since 2003, the Baltimore County Code...Tags: David Marks, House Building, Energy Saving, Tom Quirk
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EPA keeps heat on to reduce summer smog
Just in time for the start of ozone season, the Environmental Protection Agency officially reminds us that Baltimoreans are still breathing unhealthful levels of pollution in their air in late spring and summer. The city and its suburbs were among 45...
Tags: Lungs and Airways, Environmental Politics, Air Pollution, Human Body, Lobbying
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The Interview John Hauserman, Certified Financial Planner board ambassador
Financial advisers often have an alphabet of professional designations behind their names, but the dominant one remains "CFP," or certified financial planner.
The CFP Board, which sets the national standards for financial planners, has announced in the...Tags: Goldman Sachs, Personal Finance, Consumers, Values, Bernard Madoff
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Report: Baltimore's air cleaner, but still among most polluted
Baltimore's air is healthier to breathe than it used to be, but the region still has some of the nation's worst smog and soot pollution, according to the American Lung Association. In its annual report on the state of the nation's air, the advocacy group...
Tags: Lungs and Airways, Environmental Politics, Human Body, Air Pollution, Environmental Pollution
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Safeway, Giant to stop selling pink slime beef
Giant Food, the region's largest grocery chain, became the latest area supermarket Thursday to declare it would stop selling meat with the additive known as pink slime.
The Landover-based company is among a growing number of supermarkets pulling the...Tags: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Consumer Goods Industries, Shoppers Food & Pharmacy, Media Industry, Boneless Lean Beef Trimmings
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Wegmans to stop sellng meat with pink slime
Wegmans Food Markets Inc. said today they will also stop selling meat with an additive known as pink slime. Thebyproduct comes from fatty scraps leftover after steaks and roasts are cut from a cow. The meat bits are heated to soften them and then spun to...Tags: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Safeway Inc., Boneless Lean Beef Trimmings, Wegmans Food Markets, Inc.
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What's the standard for daylight hours?
Among Ben Franklin's most lasting legacies is a rite of spring in which most of us will partake this weekend: Setting our clocks ahead in anticipation of moving off Eastern Standard Time and onto Eastern Daylight Time, which we commonly call Daylight... -
Thousands offered on closing costs for city homes
Shandra Brown has a big goal: to buy a house before her 21st birthday in September.
On Saturday, she came to Belair-Edison with her mother, Rene, for a Healthy Neighborhoods event that highlighted resources available through the nonprofit, including a...Tags: Foreclosures, Homes, Windsor Mill, Energy Saving, Waverly (Baltimore, Maryland)
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GOP energy policy running on empty
The recent Senate vote on the Keystone XL Pipeline ("Senate rejects GOP effort to advance oil pipeline," March 9) demonstrates the pathetic Republican energy policy. First, it advocates opening up more offshore sites for oil drilling leasing despite the...Tags: Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, U.S. Senate, Republican Party, Petroleum Industry, Energy
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