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Advocates, lawmakers plan fight to restore commuter tax break
Commuter advocates and Maryland lawmakers say they will fight to renew an expiring tax credit that benefits mass-transit users, including MARC riders.
Current federal law allows commuters to withhold up to $230 in pre-tax income each month that can be...Tags: Barack Obama, Benjamin L. Cardin, U.S. Senate, Mark Kirk, Carrollton
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Jack A. Lawrence, cryptographer
Jack A. Lawrence, whose career as a cryptographer spanned nearly four decades, died Dec. 19 of pulmonary fibrosis at Riderwood Village, a Silver Spring retirement community. The longtime Columbia resident was 85. He was born and raised in Chicago, where...Tags: Labor Legislation, Ashburn, Crosswords, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), National Security
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Merger holds promise for clean energy
Hannah Cho's recent article ("O'Malley praises Exelon-CEG deal," Dec. 16) reported on a far superior merger agreement between Exelon Corp. and Constellation Energy Group than previous arrangements. Between 1999 and 2009, electricity prices across Maryland...Tags: Alternative Energy, Constellation Energy Group, Restructuring and Recapitalization, Energy Saving, Electricity Production and Distribution
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Plan Maryland is a socialist plot
Michael Dresser's fine article "Foes, supporters clash over Plan Maryland" (Dec. 12) finally made clear to me the statist, collectivist underpinnings of this "plan." Reading about it on the Internet was futile because I was unable to penetrate the...Tags: Barack Obama, Karl Marx, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Congress
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Sister Mary Martha Geipe, educator
Sister Mary Martha Geipe, a teacher, principal and pastoral minister, died of a stroke Dec. 20 at her order's motherhouse in the Woodbrook section of Baltimore County. She was 88.
Born Nancy Marie Geipe in Baltimore, she was the daughter of Anna...Tags: Villanova University, Baltimore County, Annapolis, Teaching and Learning, Catonsville
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Swaying the supercommittee
At 84, Barbara Talbert might seem an unlikely Washington lobbyist. But when she heard senior citizen programs could be cut to reduce federal budget deficits, she quickly got on a bus to Capitol Hill.
"As far as Social Security is concerned, some people...Tags: Bacon, Advertising, Barack Obama, Korean War (1950-1953), Regional Authority
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Cumberland man guilty of running child porn site
A Cumberland man pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to running a child pornography website, prosecutors said. George Sell, 70, is guilty of conspiracy to transport child pornography, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland said...Tags: Prosecution, Justice System, Pornography, Cumberland (Allegany, Maryland), Trials
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Firms with interests in Md. pour cash into DGA
Some companies with interests in Maryland have found a new way to show support for Gov. Martin O'Malley: They're contributing tens of thousands of dollars to the Democratic Governors Association.
Last December, O'Malley took the helm of the DGA, where as...Tags: Business Enterprises, Waste, Charity, Regional Authority, Chemicals
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Four MD schools win "green ribbon" awards
Four Maryland schools won recognition Monday in the U.S. Department of Education's first-ever listing of "green ribbon" schools, so honored because of their promotion of energy efficiency, environmental health and education. The four schools were...Tags: Ellicott City, U.S. Department of Education, Energy Saving, Severna Park
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Walking and documenting the B&O Railroad
John David Hiteshew Sr. and John David Hiteshew Jr. — both known as David — spent four years walking and exploring hundreds of miles of Maryland railroad trackage to document the industrial infrastructure and physical characteristics of the...Tags: Cancer, Vehicles, Catonsville, Transportation, Washington, DC
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Traffic: Four-vehicle accident on I-95 south at White Marsh Blvd.
As of 9 a.m. Tuesday, traffic was slow on I-95 southbound at White Marsh Boulevard, due to an accident involving four vehicles. Accidents also were slowing traffic on I-95 northbound at the Baltimore Beltway in Baltimore County, Route 100 southbound at...Tags: White Marsh, Jones Falls Expressway, Fort McHenry, Baltimore County, Anne Arundel County
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