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After a long fall, Antelope Valley is back on upswing
In the brutal cycles of California real estate, the Antelope Valley has been among the last to boom, the first to bust and the slowest to recover. But in the High Desert, separated from downtown Los Angeles by 65 miles and a mountain range, the...
Tags: Real Estate Sellers, Services and Shopping, KB Home, Homes, Foreclosures
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Director of Public Works retiring from Washington County to take another job
dona@herald-mail.comWashington County Director of Public Works Joseph Kroboth III is retiring from the position he has held since 2007, but will be taking on new duties as the director of Transportation and Capital Infrastructure with Loudoun County, Virginia. Kroboth...Tags: Technology, Highway Transportation, Engineering, Frostburg State University, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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S. Fla. women earn 86 cents for every male worker's dollar
Sun SentinelSouth Florida women continue to lag behind male workers for pay, earning 86 cents for every dollar men earn, a new study finds, based on U.S. Census Bureau data. Still, women in Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties are among the national...Tags: Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Career and Workplace, Employees
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Word has it Scrabble fundraiser is Saturday in Roland Park
The word was tristeza. It's a disease of citrus trees, but more importantly, for Tobey Roland, it once scored 228 points for him in a game of Scrabble, he said. Roland, 52, of Mount Washington, loves Scrabble and estimates he has played in 120...
Tags: Charles Village, Schools, Waverly (Baltimore, Maryland), Cafe Hon, Scrabble (game)
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Women-owned businesses increase 59% since 1997, study says
The number of businesses owned by women in the United States has increased 59% since 1997, according to an estimate from American Express. Those 8.6 million firms are generating more than $1.3 trillion in revenue and employing nearly 7.8 million people,...
Tags: Business, American Express Company
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Maryland is free and growing
A recent letter to The Sun reported that the Mercatus Center at George Mason University ranked Maryland near the bottom in overall freedom and cited a statistic that the state has lost population ("The 'Free State' isn't so free anymore," April 3)....
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Local representatives size up legislative losers
smojica@amnews.comFRANKFORT — Some local lawmakers are relieved that a proposal to draw new boundary lines around House districts was among a litany of high-profile bills that didn’t survive the legislative session that ended Tuesday night, but legislators warn...Tags: Laws, Personal Weapon Control, Elections, Health Insurance, Gun Control
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City in ballot language flap
Glendale this year has limited the sample ballot that goes out to all voters to just English and Armenian. But critics say officials should have kept with the prior practice of including all four major languages spoken in the city to avoid...Tags: Elections, Local Government, Local Elections, 2010 Census, Minority Groups
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Baltimore residents' survey shows mixed results
Baltimore residents are less satisfied with city services than they were last year, but see progress in the city's long-standing fight against violent crime and illegal drugs. Those are some of the mixed findings in the annual Baltimore Citizen Survey,...
Tags: Local Government, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Crime, Law and Justice, Tour Operations Industry, University of Baltimore
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More men choosing nursing as a career
Daily American Staff WriterPaul Fedorchak of Bedford was a plant manager for Morton Metal Craft. When the company was bought out and the plant was closed in 2009, he decided to switch careers. Fedorchak became a registered nurse. "I always wanted to go into the medical field,"...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Specialization, Health and Medical Professionals, Layoffs and Downsizing, Human Interest
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Spotlight on economics: Global food security in 2050
The book, “Who Will Feed China?: Wake-up Call for a Small Planet,” authored by Lester Brown in 1995, was a surprising wake-up call about world food security. Brown claimed that food production was not growing fast enough to feed China's increasing...Tags: Global Warming, Health Organizations, Agricultural Research and Technology, Food Industry, China
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Recession changed course of population growth in metro Baltimore
Not too long ago, Carroll County faced a problem: Rapid growth had brought crowded classrooms to the northeastern part of the county, and planners expected many more homes to be built in the area. "At one point, they were 400 kids over capacity at North...Tags: Carroll County (Maryland), Howard County, U.S. Army, Sykesville, Baltimore County
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