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Several veterans who attended the Veterans Day ceremony in Havre de Grace Monday had not heard about the event in advance, but they stopped to listen to speakers honor veterans and their service to the country.

On closer inspection, First Amendment offers no legitimate reason to restrict prayer

For the 22nd consecutive year, on Oct. 29, 2013, the U.S. government was again put to shame at the U.N. General Assembly where 188 countries voted to condemn the U.S. embargo of Cuba. The only two countries that supported the U.S. embargo are the U.S. and Israel – with the interesting fact that Israel has full economic and diplomatic relations with Cuba!

in order that a grateful Nation might pay appropriate homage to the veterans of all its wars who have contributed so much to the preservation of this Nation."

Health care reform is just one step in the liberal effort to turn away from American values

Edward C. Papenfuse, 70, retired Thursday as state archivist after a career spanning nearly four decades. During that time he brought Maryland's public records from the era of the index card to the Digital Age and put hundreds of millions of state documents as close as the nearest computer.

As the government shutdown drama was playing out in Washington, James Ward Morrow was shocked by some of the rhetoric he heard

In a public appearance in Baltimore on Thursday, National Security Agency director Keith Alexander forcefully defended surveillance methods that have come under scrutiny this year but acknowledged that some of them may need adjustments.

COLA for Social Security is 1.5 percent next year

Court's ruling in drug-smuggling case reflects the federal government's changing role in enforcing marijuana laws

Baltimore is failing its small businesses in favor of big chains and large employers

Former South African President Nelson Mandela demonstrated the path for bringing together entrenched interests, something the U.S. Congress might want to consider.

The Carroll County Chamber of Commerce is offering its members and members of the community an opportunity to travel to Cuba May 24 to June 1 through a cultural exchange program.

Newspaper articles, columns and letters show Democrats are making mischief

Irresponsible NRA, Congress

The Greater Baltimore Committee throws its weight behind the effort to reform Maryland's redistricting process.

Maryland's federal workers and contractors could once more be without paychecks in three months, which is bad news for holiday spending.

As the late budget agreement cleared the way for federal workers across Maryland to go back to work and government offices to reopen Thursday, attention in Washington shifted to the next fiscal deadline: Jan. 15, when funding is set to run out again.

The government shutdown and threat to the nation's credit served no purpose other than to let John Boehner try to save his job.

Democrats are to blame for the government shutdown

Denying employer subsidized insurance to Congress and the White House would only prove that the GOP's attack on the Affordable Care Act was about politics, not policy.

A quick look at Maryland's U.S. House of Representatives district map provides a clear picture of how the United States got in the position of threatening not to pay for things it already has paid for.

Democrats may think they've won, but the nation will lose if warnings about spending, debt go unheeded.

As Congress considers legislation to provide back pay to furloughed federal workers, far less attention has been paid to contract employees — many of whom work side by side with their agency counterparts.

Fight over Obamacare and debt ceiling is rooted in a strong aversion to an African-American president

Like investors who sparked the financial crisis, Republicans in Congress have overplayed their position and put the nation at risk.

When Laurel resident Clayton Cooper Jr. found out he would be furloughed as part of the federal government shutdown, he decided he wouldn't spend his new-found free time at home. As week two of the federal shutdown began, Cooper, a government employee with a national security-related job, went back to work Monday, Oct. 7. One of Cooper's fellow demonstrators has taken the torch: Jeff Wismer, of Crystal City, Va., a personnel security specialist for AmeriCorps.

The debt ceiling, why it's important and what you need to know about it.

The reality-averse brigade in the GOP is pushing a showdown over the debt limit out of a refusal to be accept that facts trump politics.

Obama should swallow his pride, negotiate with House GOP

Tea party Republicans and their allies are threatening to inflict great harm on this nation

This Federal government shutdown is the latest antic by the Tea Party Republicans to achieve by sheer force what they did not achieve in the most recent national elections and cannot achieve by attempting to extort concessions

What young person would want to serve in government — much less run for office — after witnessing the debacle in Washington?

Despite the GOP's attempts to muddy the waters, the American public realizes who's to blame for the mess in Washington.

The end came quickly for Silk Road, when federal agents crept in to nab the alleged kingpin of the secret $1.2 billion online drug marketplace as he sat at his laptop in the sci-fi section of a San Francisco public library.

The federal government intertwines with Maryland businesses in many ways, which leaves many ways for Maryland businesses to feel the pinch when large pieces of D.C. machinery come to a sudden halt.

Robert Small, the Howard County parent whose name became known from Maine to California last week when he protested against the new educational standards in classrooms this school year, is part of a chorus of increasingly strident voices rising up against the Common Core here and across the nation.

In a state where 300,000 people work for the federal government and countless more depend on its benefits, Maryland has been hard hit by the government shutdown. Here are five people, a researcher, a homeless mother, a veteran and two federal workers, and how the budget impasse has affected their lives.

I did something foolish last week. I spent at least four hours a day with cable TV news, starting Tuesday.

Clayton Cooper, a furloughed federal employee from Laurel who has made it his mission to park in front of the Capitol every work day until the government shutdown ends, said he thought his efforts, on day four, were gaining steam.

Richard Clark, an administrative law judge for the Social Security Administration, has been declared an "essential" federal worker. That means Clark can preside over previously scheduled disability benefits hearings — but he won't be able to deliver decisions because the support staff has been furloughed. Throughout the federal bureaucracy, some workers are puzzled over who's still working and who was sent home.

President Barack Obama used a speech Thursday in Maryland to lay blame for the government shutdown squarely on House Speaker John A. Boehner and warned that the economic consequences of Washington's latest budget battle would soon grow more severe.

It's time for us, or U.S., to get beyond the foolishness of self-inflicted harm designed to make esoteric political points and come to the realization that we're all better off together, even when we disagree, or especially when we disagree, than we are out on our own.

When Laurel resident Clayton Cooper Jr. found out he would be furloughed as part of the federal government shutdown, he decided he wouldn't spend his new-found free time at home. "I can't go to work, I'm not going to stay at home, so I'm packing up and moving to Capitol Hill," Cooper said.

Republicans' shift to a fight over the debt limit presents a grave threat to the nation that President Obama must not abide.

America can't guarantee that we won't engage in torture if we don't examine the past.

Some public rule-bending Wednesday allowed veterans from across the country to visit memorials in their honor that were officially closed. Still, the coincidence of the veterans' excursion with the federal government shutdown brought a celebration of service face to face with government dysfunction.

Law enforcement rangers with the National Park Service are among the few employees left at Hampton National Historic Site in Towson, as the government shutdown has forced the scenic park and historic mansion to close to all visitors.

Effects of the partial federal government shutdown Tuesday were felt across Maryland, home to 300,000 federal workers, more government contractors, and several agencies.