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Md. panel OKs $362 million in budget-balancing measures
A Maryland spending panel decided Wednesday to lay off nearly 70 workers, reclaim cash heading for an emergency reserve fund and move forward with the closure of a psychiatric hospital as it signed off on $362 million in budget-balancing measures proposed...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Martin O'Malley, Government, Constellation Energy Group, Medical Services
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O'Malley planning more ways to close budget gap
Gov. Martin O'Malley plans to rely on tax revenue from Constellation Energy Group's deal with a French utility plus state agency cutbacks, dozens of employee layoffs and fund transfers to close the latest budget gap that has opened as the recession...Tags: Martin O'Malley, Government, Economic Policy, Unemployment, Constellation Energy Group
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Md. panel approves $362M in budget cuts
Baltimore Sun reporterA state spending panel approved on Wednesday $362 million in budget-balancing measures proposed by Gov. Martin O'Malley and decided to continue with the closure of a state-run psychiatric hospital that employees had fought to save. The actions taken by...Tags: Government, Martin O'Malley, Economic Policy, Constellation Energy Group, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Marion K. Kuehnle, Naval Reserve officer
Marion K. Kuehnle, a homemaker who had served in the Naval Reserve during World War II, died of complications from Alzheimer's disease Nov. 5 at the Heron Point retirement community in Chestertown. She was 90. Marion Kotko, the daughter of Russian...Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Death and Dying, Willow Springs, World War II (1939-1945), Everglades
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Union proposes cuts to keep mental health center open
A state employee labor union has proposed slimming down operations at the Upper Shore Community Mental Health Center to save the Chestertown facility from being closed because of budget cuts. Gov. Martin O'Malley said he would review the proposal from...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Budgets and Budgeting, Government, Martin O'Malley, AFSCME
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Alexander Gray Jones, Somerset County lawyer
Alexander Gray "Sandy" Jones, a retired Somerset County lawyer who had been a civil rights activist, public school advocate and a longtime member of the board of visitors and governors at Washington College, died Saturday of multiple organ failure at...Tags: Government, Somerset County (Maryland), World War II (1939-1945), Lawyers, Christianity
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A driving tour of Maryland's byways offers beauty, history and more
The fall colors may have peaked, with more leaves clinging to turf than trees, but it's still not too late for an autumn auto tour. Last month, the Federal Highway Administration designated four Maryland routes as America's Byways, placing them among the...Tags: Local Elections, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, St. Mary's City, Bucktown
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Michael J. Pelczar, UM professor
Michael J. Pelczar Jr., a retired University of Maryland microbiology professor who later headed the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington, died of a stroke Oct. 13 at his Kent Island farm. He was 93. Dr. Pelczar, the son of a real estate salesman...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Pikesville, National Government, Government, World War II (1939-1945)
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The best of bad choices
Opponents of the state's plan to close the Upper Shore Community Mental Health Center in Chestertown have a point that the state has not yet provided sufficient details about how the 200 patients a year who rely on the facility will find adequate care...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Budgets and Budgeting, Peter Franchot, Medical Services, Illnesses
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Day Trip: Chestertown Historic House Tour
Where: Tour begins in Fountain Park, corner of High and Cross streets, in Chestertown
When: 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday
What: Chestertown, named one of the National Trust's 2007 Dozen Distinctive Destinations, hosts the 39th annual heritage house tour,... -
Incredible shrinking economy
Gov. Martin O'Malley learned last week why to hate economists. In the same week that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke declared the recession "very likely" over and less than a month after shrinking the state's general fund budget to three-year-old...Tags: Martin O'Malley, Government, Budgets and Budgeting, Local Authority, State Budgets
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Franchot questions closing of Shore hospital
A proposal by Gov. Martin O'Malley's administration to shutter a state-run psychiatric hospital as a cost-saving measure has come under increased scrutiny, and a top fiscal officer questioned whether the closure should move forward. The Board of Public...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Martin O'Malley, Peter Franchot, Government, Budgets and Budgeting
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