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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: National Government, Hospitals and Clinics, Nursing, Business, U.S. Army
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AP case fuels complaints on Obama whistle-blower policies
The Justice Department's secret review of Associated Press telephone records gives advocates for federal employees one more reason to doubt the Obama administration's full commitment to protecting whistleblowers, particularly those in national security...Tags: Public Employees, Labor Legislation, News Agency, Saturday Night Live (tv program), Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Veterans, advocates brace for cutbacks
The Maryland Center for Veterans Education and Training's Baltimore complex is full of neatly made beds and shining-clean floors, a military-like environment for homeless former service members working to get their lives back on track. Its executive...Tags: Rentals, Consumer Confidence, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Veterans Affairs
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APG testing could cause noise, vibrations off-post
The U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center, U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground plans to conduct a firing program beginning on or about Monday, May 20, and ending on or about Friday, May 24. This firing program is likely to generate...Tags: U.S. Army, Physiology, Aberdeen Proving Ground
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Military injustice
The recent study estimating that there may have been 26,000 cases of sexual assault in the military last year stirred a lot of tough talk from the Pentagon and the White House over the past 24 hours. But the question is whether that outrage will translate...
Tags: Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Air Force, Courts-Martial, Rape, Assault
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Bad faith and Benghazi
"Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night and decided they'd go kill some Americans? What difference -- at this point, what difference does it make?" That was how then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton famously...
Tags: Hillary Clinton, U.S. Department of State, Al-Qaeda, Libya, Benghazi
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Md. National Guard preparing final Afghan deployment
As the Maryland National Guard prepares for what could be its final deployment to Afghanistan, its commander sees a "pivotal point" in the nation's history. More than a decade of deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq and other battlegrounds since Sept. 11,...
Tags: Barack Obama, Iraq, Afghanistan, Armed Forces
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Pentagon reports sharp rise in sex assaults in military
The Pentagon estimated Tuesday that 26,000 members of the military were sexually assaulted last year, 36 percent more than a year earlier, in a trend so severe that senior officials warned it could threaten recruiting and retention of military personnel....
Tags: Trials, Courts-Martial, West Point, Rape, Assault
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Bracing for an invasion of tourists in Havre de Grace [Community]
Uh, oh, dear readers, the British are coming! Planned for many months, the War of 1812 re-enactment will reoccur this weekend (May 3-5) all over Havre de Grace. Unlike the surprise British attack on the city, May 3, 1813, during which it was sacked...Tags: Havre de Grace, Robert J. Lopez, Georgetown, Music, Cinco de Mayo
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F-35's manufacturers put civilians in 'cockpit'
Rep. Donna F. Edwards slipped into the F-35 cockpit — a stationary demonstration model — and gave the jet a simulated spin, trying out the controls, shooting down enemy aircraft over the Chesapeake Bay and executing a celebratory roll. "This...
Tags: Electronics, Boeing Co., Linthicum, Military Equipment, Budgets and Budgeting
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Eastern Shore wind project confronts eagles, Navy
A wind power project proposed on the lower Eastern Shore that's struggling to overcome objections from the Navy has a new, airborne worry — bald eagles. Federal wildlife biologists say the population of the once-rare national bird has grown so...
Tags: Somerset County (Maryland), Waste Management and Pollution Control, Endangered Species, Punishment, St. Mary's County
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Anne Arundel County Digest
Fort Meade spouse job fair The third annual Fort George G. Meade Military Spouse Job Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 8, at McGill Training Center, 8452 Zimborski Ave. on the post. The event is open to all military spouses,...Tags: Agriculture, Land Resources, Agricultural Research and Technology, Mother's Day, Employment
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