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John F. Guidera, Jesuit missionary
The Rev. John F. Guidera, a Jesuit missionary who lived in India for six decades while retaining close ties with his Maryland benefactors, died of septicemia May 16 in Jamshedpur. He was 86.
Born in Baltimore and raised in Govans, he was a 1943 Loyola...Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Govans, Colleges and Universities, Sepsis, National Aquarium Baltimore
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Preying on the poor
Individually, the poor are not all that tempting to thieves. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you'll be lucky to get bus fare to flee the crime scene. But the poor in aggregate provide a juicy target...
Tags: Fines, Banking, New York City, Theft, Prisons
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Romney: The ideal foil for Democrats' class warfare campaign
It was going to happen anyway, but Mitt Romney's wealth and history as a healer of troubled corporations doubly assures that this year's presidential campaign will see a return in spades to good old "class warfare." David Axelrod, President Obama's chief...
Tags: Occupy Wall Street, Theodore Roosevelt, Republican National Conventions, Manhattan (New York City), Parties and Movements
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Economic integration is the key
You couldn't tell from the Republican primary season so far, but education, as a campaign issue, should move to the forefront of voter concern as we approach the fall election. A College Board poll last month reported that two-thirds of voters in nine...
Tags: Minority Groups, Johns Hopkins University, Students, Charter Schools, Montgomery County (Maryland)
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Comptroller gives Schaefer award to Catonsville's Little Sisters of the Poor
The Little Sisters of the Poor at St. Martin's Home received the first William Donald Schaefer Helping People Award to be given out in Baltimore County on Monday. Comptroller Peter Franchot introduced the award this year to recognize efforts by...Tags: William Donald Schaefer, Catonsville, Baltimore County
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Building Baltimore's next economy
By several measures, metropolitan Baltimore's economy is doing better than fine. In 2010, median household income was nearly $15,000 higher than the national average, and during the last decade, real incomes grew even as they shrank nationally. Metro...
Tags: Business Institutions, Personal Income, Food Industry
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Poverty does not cause teen pregnancy
In her commentary on teen pregnancy ("Teen pregnancy is poverty's offspring," April 16), Susan Reimer perpetuates the justification that poverty is the primary reason teens engage in sex and become pregnant. This begs the question: Why, when we have...Tags: Section 8 (housing)
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'Next economy' envisioned for Baltimore region
A new report being released today calls on the Baltimore region to rethink economic development, pointing to a worrying trend: a mounting share of low-wage jobs shutting more and more residents out of the middle class.
The number of jobs in largely low-...Tags: Employment, Energy Saving, Port of Baltimore, Business, Federal Reserve
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Patricia T. "Patty" Rouse
Patricia T. "Patty" Rouse, who with her late husband, Columbia developer James W. Rouse, co-founded Enterprise Community Partners Inc. and who devoted her life to making sure that decent and affordable housing was accessible to all Americans, died...Tags: Roland Park, Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Hodgkins Disease, Family
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Church abandons the poor of Baltimore
The closure and sale of St. Peter the Apostle Church on Poppleton Street is, indeed, a great loss, both historically and architecturally ("Second-oldest Catholic church in city is being sold," Jan. 28). However, the ultimate tragedy is the insight this...Tags: Christianity, Roman Catholicism
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Digital libraries are the future
There are already tens of millions of e-book lovers, and their ranks are sure to be boosted by the latest iPad — along with improved Kindles, Nooks and their rivals.
My sister, the retired fourth-grade teacher, has finally succumbed; Dorothy...Tags: NAACP, Book, Apple iPad, Personal Income, White House
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The GOP's stealth tax increase on the poor
The conservatives in Congress are taking advantage of a semantic convenience when they insist on "no new taxes for anyone." It is based on the fact that the poorest Americans are excused from paying federal income tax in the first place, due to their...Tags: Republican Party
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