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- Hiring for federal jobs in Maryland has fallen 30 percent since 2008, and for the first time in years is being outpaced by the number of employees retiring or resigning — a trend that has raised concerns among some about the government's ability to deliver services in the future.
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An op-ed arguing that we should enact more gun control because Germans do is preposterous. - The Harford County volunteer fire and ambulance service has the county government in a tight spot with regard to finances.
- Maryland House Republicans elected a new minority leader, but they aren't going to make much progress if their strategy is to find a new messenger for the same message.
- A Senate bill on visa waivers for Israel would allow it to keep out those it suspects for any reason — including their religion, Arab heritage or sympathy for the Palestinian cause.
- The president's desire to 'make nice' with the Muslim world is preventing us from calling evil by its name.
- Low income residents in Baltimore and across the nation already have trouble finding a place to live; federal tax reform could make the problem worse.
- Two Hall of Famers came before the Harford County Board of Education Monday, but neither had played for the Orioles or the Ravens.
- Obama, Congress should not pursue deficit reduction in a way that hurts municipalities
- Development proposals, both public and private, have fallen through over the years, and the island has been overrun by thousands of birds. But members of the family that owns Fort Carroll and they still have hopes for it.
- The "average" federal employee salary stands at nearly $78,500, an amount that has risen by about $1,800 in the past two years despite a general freeze on salary rates, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
- Government has no business sticking its nose into people's private affairs
- As thousands of federal workers prepare for to be furloughed, many are concerned about how to deal with a pay cut.
- When city or county firefighters have a family obligation pop up on a workday, their solution is familiar to most shift workers: They find a colleague willing to trade hours. But for the roughly 10,000 firefighters employed by the federal government, the ability to swap shifts is limited.
- The winter of 2012-13 didn't quite give up the ghost earlier this week, dropping 3 to 4 inches of wet snow over a wide swath of Harford County on Monday morning, five days after the official start of spring.
- Most of the coverage of the gun control issue seems to boil down to rural versus urban, those who might "still" have guns at home are hicks compared to those wiser, more trusting, urbane souls who are more willing to cede the control of lethal violence to the government.
- While hundreds of thousands of federal workers brace for unpaid furloughs starting next month, Uncle Sam is still looking to hire.
- Robert Reich says President Obama must confront Republican dogma that diverts attention from the jobs crisis.
- Johns Hopkins Hospital's Dr. Ben Carson tested the political waters Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, where many said he would be a popular Republican contender for the White House.
- Dr. Ben Carson, who became a rising star among conservatives after a speech at the National Prayer breakfast last month, announced his retirement from medicine during an appearance at CPAC Saturday, fueling speculation about a future in politics.
- Recent reforms will curtail filibuster abuse, and they should go further — but no so far that they invalidate an important Senate tradition
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- Jonah Goldberg asks why one group of Americans receives so much at the expense of the rest of us.
- Why must Obama and the Democrats cut the wrong programs?
- The National Weather Service has placed a winter storm watch in effect for a number of Maryland counties including Howard on Tuesday morning that it is expected to expire at 12 a.m. on March 7.
- Many Maryland businesses rely on a payroll service provider to handle their tax withholdings, but they still need to make sure the Internal Revenue Service is getting its due.
- The debate over the sequestration cuts obscures the real drivers of our slow growth and ballooning public debt.
- You can hear their passion for teaching the language a Viva Italia! enthusiasm they hope to make infectious to those who sign up for the courses.
- A fledgling organization devoted to the history of the Continental Congress and creating a permanent home in Annapolis for examining that period in American government took steps last week toward its goal.
- Harford County, home to a major federal installation in Aberdeen Proving Ground and the massive federal military and civilian workforce that comes with it, is bracing for federal spending cuts – known as sequestration – which could have a ripple effect far beyond Aberdeen.
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- WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of governors expressed concern Saturday over the impact looming federal budget cuts will have on their states but had few ideas for how to break the latest fiscal impasse gripping Congress.
- Cal Thomas writes that Republicans must not give in to President Obama's demand to again raise taxes.
- Mika J. Cross, a human resources manager for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, sometimes uses a laptop issued by the agency. But she is far more likely to check email or collaborate with colleagues on one of her two personal computers.
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- Jules Witcover writes that both sides seem increasingly dug in as the deadline for federal "sequestration" cuts approaches.
- Several weeks ago, a friend of mine told me about the old Laurel Cemetery in the city's Belair-Edison neighborhood that had once been the premier resting place for Baltimore's African-American community until disappearing when the site was redeveloped as a shopping center in the late 1950s.
- Could Virginia move give O'Malley political cover?
- Would Ben Carson approve cutting research at Hopkins to balance the federal budget?
- Moody's promise to drop Maryland's AAA-status if it downgrades the federal government is frustrating but may not mean much.
- Former Hopkins president overcame great adversity to become one of America's finest college presidents
- Leonard Pitts says the Obama administration is abusing the English language to justify an unreasonable policy.
- Cal Thomas says President Obama's State of the Union speech trumpeted worn-out liberal ideology.
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- The likelihood of that becoming a political reality, however, is slim as governments tend to be more than a little cavalier about spending money that belongs to other people.
