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Tourism is a quiet driver of local economy
Dwelling as we have of late on Downtown Hagerstown’s cloudy future is all well and good, but at some point we might stop to remember that our inherent strength is changing over time. Instead of coming from the city, our economic engine is...Tags: Arts and Culture, National Parks, Class Conflict
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Mail Call - March 8
“Just sitting here reading my Monday paper, and I see where Elizabeth Paul writes this article about this wonderful Obama and how wonderful he is and what he’s done, and I could only read about half of the column, and it just saddens me that...Tags: Barack Obama, White House, Politics, Sora, Petroleum Industry
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Report: 'Downtown has shortcomings, but is far from run-down and inhospitable'
dona@herald-mail.comEditor’s note: This is one in an occasional series of stories on findings and recommendations in the Hagerstown and Washington County Economic Development Strategic Plan. Poverty, low-income housing and vacant properties in downtown Hagerstown...Tags: Arts, University System of Maryland, Arts and Culture, Housing and Urban Planning, Politics
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Brien Poffenberger: A white-knuckle ride to fiscal cliff's edge
Last year, when Congress and President Obama couldn’t reach a budget deal, they agreed to a doomsday plan with an automatic timer set to go off at the end of 2012. What we have come to call the “fiscal cliff” combines indiscriminant...Tags: Barack Obama, Business, Consumer Confidence, U.S. Congress, Labor Markets
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Letters to the Editor - Dec. 1
Cheap stunt will not divide and conquer To the editor: This letter is in response to “Obama voters have made their bed.” (Nov. 17, 2012) It is an interesting sociological phenomenon how groups of people can view the same incident and...Tags: Barack Obama, H.L. Mencken, Labor Markets, Layoffs and Downsizing, Politics
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Tax abatement program approved to boost economic growth in Greencastle area
waynesboro@herald-mail.comEfforts to kick-start economic growth through tax abatement received a boost Monday evening when the Greencastle Borough Council approved three zones eyed for property improvements. Now, the Borough of Greencastle and surrounding Antrim Township have...Tags: Franklin County (Pennsylvania)
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Md. U.S. Senate Candidates Q&A
Editor’s note: The Herald-Mail asked the candidates running for U.S. Senate in the Nov. 6 general election to respond to seven questions. Their responses follow. The candidates were asked to limit each response to 100 words. Their responses are...
Tags: Barack Obama, Business, U.S. House of Representatives, Labor Markets, Arts and Culture
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Facilities employee honored by City Hospital
David May was named City Hospital’s Quality Service Award winner for April 2012. Each month, the hospital’s Service Award Committee selects an employee to receive the award. May, a member of the facilities staff at the McCormack Center,...
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Jeff Semler: Misconceptions linger for public in its knowledge of farming
Misconceptions still linger for the general public in its knowledge of farming Regular readers of this column know that my target audience is the general public and not the farming community. In years past, it used to be a way of sharing information...Tags: Conservation, Deere and Company, Consumers, Agriculture, Environmental Issues
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Dow loses 251, it second-biggest drop of the year
AP Business WriterInvestors yanked money out of stocks Thursday after new reports from the U.S. and China pointed to a sharp slowdown in manufacturing. The Dow Jones industrial plunged 251 points, the second-biggest drop this year. Losses in energy and materials...Tags: Wilmington Trust Company, Labor Markets, ConAgra Foods Incorporated, Spain, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Art Callaham: 'Things to do' can spur economic development
Last week, I wrote about making Washington County, or the City of Hagerstown, or anywhere and everywhere in our community, an attraction or a destination for visitors. This week, I’d like to expand that thought and include getting folks, including...Tags: Business, Education, University System of Maryland, Values, Economy, Business and Finance
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