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Maryland leaders call for tighter gun controls in wake of Conn. school shooting
Maryland's senior lawmaker, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, said Monday the National Rifle Association must come to the table to discuss the tighter gun controls, as she works with President Barack Obama and her colleagues in Congress in the wake of the deadly...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Gun Control, Annapolis, Personal Weapon Control, National Rifle Association of America
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Sparrows Point's steel mill to be razed, Kamenetz says
The owners of the Sparrows Point steel mill plan to raze the closed plant, Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz said Thursday, as political leaders from Towson to Washington mourned the loss of a landmark that once employed tens of thousands. The...
Tags: Unemployment Benefits, Bankruptcy, United Steelworkers, Baltimore County, Martin O'Malley
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Special deposit insurance to end after extension stalls in Senate
WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Thursday failed to extend a special unlimited deposit insurance program largely used by businesses that was created during the financial crisis to help stabilize the banking system. With the crisis long past, opponents of the...
Tags: Financial and Business Services, Insurance, Elections, Republican Party, Financial Markets
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Plan to move 450 federal jobs from P.G. delayed
The plan to move 450 jobs from the Financial Management Services facility in Hyattsville to West Virginia has been postponed for five years. The move — proposed by the Obama administration to save $96 million over five years — was set to...Tags: Hyattsville (Prince George's County, Maryland), Prince George's County, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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The end of steelmaking but not of Sparrows Point
The great steel mill of Sparrows Point is gone, and it's never coming back. Local, state and federal officials, along with union leaders, made a valiant attempt to find a new operator who would restart production there, but it was not to be. The plant's...
Tags: Unemployment Benefits, Barack Obama, Fiscal Cliff, Bethlehem Steel, Baltimore County
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In reversal, federal disaster aid is approved for Somerset Co.
Granting an appeal by Gov. Martin O'Malley, the Obama administration reversed course Friday and approved disaster aid for Somerset County residents who suffered damage from the remnants of Hurricane Sandy. However, the federal government did not alter...
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Benjamin L. Cardin, Martin O'Malley, FEMA, Somerset County (Maryland)
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AmeriCorps branch to set up home base in East Baltimore
As many as 240 AmeriCorps members will relocate to East Baltimore's Graceland Park neighborhood in the coming months, as the domestic version of the Peace Corps establishes an urban campus, the first of its kind.
The classrooms at the former Sacred...Tags: Charter Schools, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Peace Corps, Archdiocese of Baltimore, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations
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House-flipping waiver is extended
![Federal officials have extended a regulatory waiver that makes it easier to "flip" properties — a move meant to encourage the renovation of foreclosed homes but that critics say could herald the return of predatory schemes.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-12/73867027-31155420.jpg "Federal officials have extended a regulatory waiver that makes it easier to "flip\" properties — a move meant to encourage the renovation of foreclosed homes but that critics say could herald the return of predatory schemes.")
Federal officials have extended a regulatory waiver that makes it easier to "flip" properties — a move meant to encourage the renovation of foreclosed homes but that critics say could herald the return of predatory schemes.
The Federal Housing...Tags: Foreclosures, Services and Shopping, Bankruptcy, Mortgages, Financial and Business Services
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Mikulski and her ilk spend, not 'invest'
Politicians routinely use false language to conceal the frauds they're committing and the harm they're doing. Journalists shouldn't echo the politicians' falsifications. Yet The Sun's John Fritze, in writing about U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski's taking...Tags: U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Parkville
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Don't make kids bear the brunt of the fiscal cliff
As the federal "fiscal cliff" approaches, an important group of Marylanders with a lot on the line has been largely ignored: children. The stakes are immense, because the recession has been hard on Maryland children, with one out of every seven living...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Annapolis, U.S. Senate, Unemployment Benefits, Personal Income
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Mikulski poised to become Senate committee chair
Behind-the-scenes jostling for committee chairmanships in the U.S. Senate has left Maryland Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski poised to take over the Senate Intelligence Committee — a move experts said Tuesday could bolster the role cybersecurity plays in...Tags: U.S. Senate, Democratic Party, Benjamin L. Cardin, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations
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Brien Poffenberger: Some bright spots are on the horizon for Washington County
Happy New Year from the Chamber of Commerce! As we settle into our routines for 2013, the new year will look pretty much like the old one. Economic recovery continues in Washington County, but it remains incremental and painfully slow. The New Year brings...Tags: U.S. Senate, Robert Byrd, Unemployment, Arts and Culture, Labor Markets
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