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Lawmakers, education leaders spar over embattled tutoring program
State education leaders say proposed legislation that would force local school systems to continue funding a federal tutoring program could derail their efforts to gain relief from the mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act. Lawmakers are debating...Tags: Students, Teaching and Learning, Elections, Companies and Corporations, Prince George's County
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Harbor pollution going public, real-time
Boaters, anglers and anyone bold enough to swim in Baltimore's troubled harbor will soon be able to get timely information about whether they're risking an upset stomach or infection from splashing in water fouled with sewage leaks and other pollution....Tags: Fishing, Fort McHenry, Fells Point, Water Pollution, Water
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No deposit, no return: UM study says bottle laws curb litter
Some ideas just won't go away. Researchers with the University of Maryland have taken another look at bottle-deposit laws and found that they actually do reduce litter without undermining recycling of other waste items.
Asking consumers to pony up a...Tags: Inner Harbor, Baltimore County, Annapolis
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BBH sells W. Pratt Street campus for $3 million
Baltimore Behavioral Health Inc. has sold its West Pratt Street campus to an affiliate of the Abell Foundation for $3 million, according to a recently filed deed, a move that the struggling mental health clinic had long sought as a way to help stabilize...Tags: Government Health Care, Bank of America Corp., Laws, Hospitals and Clinics, Behavioral Conditions
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Good morning, Baltimore: Need to know for Friday
WEATHER
Today's forecast calls for partly sunny skies and a high temperature around 60 degrees. It is expected to be mostly clear with a low temperature around 40 degrees tonight.
TRAFFIC
Here are today's morning traffic issues.
FROM LAST NIGHT......Tags: Laws, Drama (genre), Abortion, Barack Obama, Hospitals and Clinics
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Abell Foundation grants $75,000 for tech community survey
The Abell Foundation, a decades-old Baltimore philanthropic institution that increasingly invests in technology startups to spur economic growth in Baltimore, said Monday it is paying $75,000 to fund a study to investigate the needs of the city's...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Burtonsville, Facebook, Companies and Corporations, Invention and Innovation
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Harbor cleanup plan stirs hope - what now?
Hope, humor and determination abounded at the unveiling today of the "Healthy Harbor" plan. Now comes the hard part - following through, so kids like 12-year-olds Dana and Diamond Johnson can feel safe swimming and fishing in Baltimore's waters by the...Tags: Fishing, Health Insurance Cost, Fells Point, Local Government, Jones Falls
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Local tech incubator launches accelerator program
The Emerging Technology Center, Baltimore's main incubator for technology firms, is hopping onto the latest trend in cultivating startups by launching its own accelerator program. Modeled after similar programs across the country, the ETC's "Accelerate...Tags: Locust Point, Company Privatization, Baltimore Development Corporation, Companies and Corporations, Startups
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Higher education politics
University System of Maryland Chancellor William E. "Brit" Kirwan, who is in the midst of gathering input on the question of whether the University of Maryland-College Park and the University of Maryland-Baltimore should be merged, says it would be a...Tags: Maryland Terrapins, Mike Miller, Restructuring and Recapitalization, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Basketball
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For the sake of victims' families, repeal the death penalty
I always thought murder was something that happened to other families. You read about it in the paper. You see the legal process unfold on TV. There's so much attention paid to certain murders that you assume the families going through their tragedy are...Tags: Murder, Crime Victims, Silver Spring (Montgomery, Maryland), Conservation, Death Penalty
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Catherine E. Pugh
1. Please describe your educational and professional background and how it has prepared you to serve as mayor.
I hold an undergraduate degree in business administration and my MBA, both from Morgan State University.
I have served as a banker, dean of...Tags: Casino and Gambling, Public Transportation, Teaching and Learning, Parenting, Sales
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Baltimore election had low turnout, high stakes
Here's what happened while you were sleeping on Tuesday. Or curing cancer, or searching the Internet for Scarlett Johansson pictures or whatever you were doing rather than voting:
The number of people who decide things in Baltimore, already a fraction of...Tags: Primaries, Denise Whiting, Elections, Local Elections, Cafe Hon
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