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Avoid toll increases by shifting priorities
The Maryland Transportation Authority recently announced its intention to increase automobile tolls throughout Maryland, including a per car increase in the Chesapeake Bay Bridge toll from $2.50 to $8 by 2013. According to the MdTA, the justification...Tags: Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Transportation, Finance, Energy Resources, Government
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Is anybody surprised that Rep. Harris votes against the bay?
In response to your editorial "No defender of the bay" (July 18), are you really surprised that Congressman Andy Harris voted against protecting the health of the Chesapeake Bay? You can expect every vote from the 1st Congressional District to be against...Tags: Elections, Maryland
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Irene weaker but still dangerous
Slightly weaker, but still a big, wet and dangerous storm, Hurricane Irene hit the North Carolina beaches early Saturday en route to a battened-down Delmarva Peninsula.
The state of Maryland, Anne Arundel County, and the cities of Baltimore, Annapolis...Tags: Chesapeake Bay Bridge, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Maryland State Fair, Cherry Hill (Baltimore, Maryland), Colleges and Universities
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Bay Bridge closed due to high winds
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge has been closed to traffic as of 7:35 p.m., after high winds due to Hurricane Irene exceeded 55 mph, according to the Maryland Transportation Authority. All other bridge and toll facilities are open, although there are wind...Tags: Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Hurricane Irene (2011), Weather Statistics
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WJZ, WBAL lead way in Saturday coverage of Irene
The Baltimore SunAll of Baltimore's TV stations deserve some credit for trying to provide area residents with the information needed Saturday to make sound decisions about how to best to deal withHurricane Irene. But once again, there were two tiers of coverage, and,...Tags: Television, ABC (tv network), National Football League, Government, Wolf Blitzer
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States better choice to defend Chesapeake Bay than feds
What exactly is "stupefying" about turning the care of the Chesapeake Bay over to the state which has the greatest stake in having it be clean and functioning ("No defender of the bay," July 18)? Or was your editorial more about political candidates The... -
Road, bridge, transit closures due to flooding and downed trees
As Hurricane Irene brought increasingly heavy rains to the Baltimore region, accumulating water prompted road closures and detours. The National Weather Service office in Sterling, Va., had extended a flash-flood warning for southeastern Howard County,...Tags: Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Tropical Weather, Transportation, Hurricane Irene (2011), Annapolis
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Woodward Reese "Wood" Smith, ironworker, dies
Baltimore Sun reporterWoodward Reese "Wood" Smith, a retired ironworker who during his nearly 50-year career worked on some of the nation's most notable bridges, died July 13 of pneumonia at his Loch Raven Village home. He was 93. The son of a construction superintendent and...Tags: The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company, Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Clarksville, Metal and Mineral, New York City
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Irene whips Maryland
Marylanders began cleaning up from Hurricane Irene this morning but mostly the state emerged from the storm without significant damage or widespread flooding, as feared.
Emergency officials cautioned that high winds are expected throughout the day as the...Tags: Tropical Weather, Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Transportation, Local Government, Air Transportation Industry
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Post-storm scenes
Annapolis residents line up at Starbucks and diner Apparently the first things you think of upon waking up after a tropical storm has passed through your community is coffee. The Starbucks at Annapolis' Harbor Center suffered no storm damage and no loss...Tags: Dunkin' Donuts, Annapolis, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Bolton Hill, Vehicles
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Irene damage closes area schools, stymies efforts to restore power
Schools throughout the region are closed today and hundreds of thousands of families and businesses remain without power as Marylanders clean up after Hurricane Irene.
The transportation grid was coming back to life, and stores were restocking shelves...Tags: Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Tropical Weather, Transportation, BP Plc, Natural Resources
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Storm surge fails; residents quick to reclaim Fells Point, Annapolis
The storm surge didn't come, so Rob and Paula Notrica went ahead with their wedding reception Sunday.
It didn't matter that guests dressed in their finest had to skirt sandbags to get into the Fells Point restaurant. It didn't matter that relatives had...Tags: Event Planning, Annapolis, United States Naval Academy, Disasters, Fells Point
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