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Get your brain in gear at the HoCo STEM Festival
Calling all kids interested in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) related activities? The first annual HoCo STEM Festival is June 9, 1 to 4 p.m., at Howard Community College. This free community event is the brainchild of the Committee to...Tags: Teaching and Learning, American Cancer Society, White House, PTA, Under Armour Inc.
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Diversity and choice key for city schools
We share the editorial view that outgoing Baltimore City Schools CEO Andrés Alonso created a strong platform to sustain ongoing improvement in our schools ("School reform 2.0," May 12). But the editorial's call for more standardization around the system...
Tags: Academic Progress, Charter Schools
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State senator fires back at Franchot, defends Towson president
For those who may have lost count, the public drama surrounding Towson University’s desire to disband its baseball and men’s soccer programs has stretched 199 days. (Here’s our original story about the proposal.) Improbably, the...
Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Basketball, Towson University, College Basketball, Maryland Terrapins
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Five questions ... for Bill Burwell
Bill Burwell wants to see more Maryland firms competing globally. "We want to enable Maryland firms to win in overseas markets," said Burwell, director of the U.S. Commercial Service in Baltimore, the Commerce Department's trade promotion arm and part of...
Tags: Sales, NASA, International Relations, Economic Organization, Small Businesses
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EPA nominee a champion for public health
On Thursday, the U.S. Senate will hold a confirmation hearing on Gina McCarthy, President Barack Obama's nominee to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Over her decades of public service, Ms. McCarthy has demonstrated a strong commitment to...
Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, Environmental Cleanup, Gaithersburg (Montgomery, Maryland), Mitt Romney
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Federal firefighters push for shift-swap flexibility
When city or county firefighters have a family event or unexpected obligation pop up on a workday, their solution is familiar to most shift workers: They find a colleague willing to trade hours. But for the roughly 10,000 firefighters employed by the...Tags: Fort Meade (military base), Budget Control Act of 2011, U.S. Congress, Parties and Movements, Gaithersburg (Montgomery, Maryland)
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New U.S. rules seek cleaner gasoline
The Obama administration is expected to propose new rules today that would slash the amount of sulfur in gasoline, one of the most significant steps the administration can take this term toward cutting air pollution, people with knowledge of the...
Tags: American Petroleum, Passenger Cars, Global Warming, U.S. Congress, St. Paul Street
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End this outrageous 'black liquor' subsidy
Tim Wheeler's most recent article about the fight over black liquor in Maryland's renewable energy standard ("'Black liquor' bill resurrected," March 25) highlights the overwhelming need to reform our state energy policy. Over the last seven years,...
Tags: Paper and Product Packaging Industry, Baltimore County, Renewable Energy, Energy Saving, Alternative Energy
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Clocks to spring forward this weekend for daylight savings
Forward. It's more than a presidential campaign slogan. It's also a directive on the second Sunday of March — this weekend — for clocks in the United States to move forward one hour under daylight-saving time. This means more afternoon sun....
Tags: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Cyber help wanted
Nineteen thousand four hundred thirteen. Focus on that number. Like so many numbers in news articles, you might easily have skipped over 19,413. But this is an important number for what is happening in Maryland higher education. According to the Cyber...
Tags: Security, Teaching and Learning, Labor Markets, University of Maryland, College Park, University System of Maryland
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'Bring your own' devices pose challenges for government
Mika J. Cross, a human resources manager for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, sometimes uses a laptop issued by the agency. But she is far more likely to check email or collaborate with colleagues on one of her two personal computers. As someone...
Tags: Theft, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Technology, Public Employees
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Warming to the subject
As much as this week's bone-chilling temperatures might offer "cold" comfort to those who deny its existence, the threat of climate change earned a prominent spot in President Barack Obama's inaugural address on Monday. That was welcome, if overdue, given...
Tags: Global Warming, White House, U.S. Congress, Natural Disasters, Global Change
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