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Edward Hall Covell Jr., a leader in Maryland's broiler industry who owned a farm supply business and was named to the Poultry Hall of Fame, died of pneumonia Nov. 22 at the Blakehurst Retirement Community in Towson. The former Talbott County resident was 92. - The 720,000 Marylanders who aren't sure where their next meal is coming from deserve our compassion and help this Thanksgiving
- The Center for Plain Language, a Washington-based group that promotes clear communication in government and business, released its second annual report card last week assessing how well federal agencies communicate with taxpayers.
- Maryland beekeepers lost nearly half of our honeybee hives last year, while 31 percent of all honeybee colonies died across the United States. Yet information that could help researchers solve this mystery is being withheld from the research community.
- More than four years after Maryland first moved to regulate its largest poultry and livestock farms, nearly 30 percent, or 169 operations, still do not have required state permits mandating measures to control polluted runoff from their chicken houses or feedlots.
- The Chesapeake Bay's cleanup may be delayed "several decades" by the slow pace at which farm pollution is being flushed from ground water on the Delmarva Peninsula, a new study says. The research by the U.S. Geological Survey also suggests pollution control efforts on Eastern Shore farms may need to be increased in order to achieve hoped-for water quality improvements.
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- Reduction in food stamps will be devastating to recipients and Maryland's economy
- With SNAP benefits about to be cut back, this isn't the time to force millions of Americans out of the program
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- Some supermarkets in Baltimore area unable to process food stamps
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- Export proponents want companies in the Baltimore region — and nationally — to do more international business as a way to propel economic growth. Exports accounted for an expanding but still fairly slim 7.7 percent of the metro area's economic activity last year.
- Harford County Public Schools officials have revised club and extracurricular activity policies to make them clear that student gatherings held in private residences are permitted, but only if school system staff or sponsors of the organizations have not planned them.
- A 178-foot blimp that some residents have spotted above the Baltimore region in recent days is a manned, government research airship conducting aerial mapping, according to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
- Indictment of Baltimore grocers on food stamp fraud should not justify GOP plan to deny eligibility to millions of hungry people
- A federal grand jury indicted 10 Baltimore business owners or operators with stealing nearly $7 million from food assistance programs by agreeing to debit cash for beneficiaries without selling food — then keeping a cut of the proceeds.
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