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An Annapolis tradition, grounded
My town, Annapolis, is a special kind of college town. The students at the Naval Academy are distinctive not for their backpacks, ear buds and school T-shirts, but for their crisp summer whites and their somber dress blues. The midshipmen take off...
Tags: Barack Obama, Culture, Arts and Culture, Graduation, Annapolis
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Entitlements' unimpeded growth is a benefit to seniors
WASHINGTON (AP) — With Congress increasingly unable to resolve budget disputes, federal programs on automatic pilot are consuming ever larger amounts of government resources. The trend helps older Americans, who receive the bulk of Social Security...
Tags: Head Start, Fiscal Cliff, Research, Washington, DC, Budgets and Budgeting
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Commissaries feel hiring freeze, fear budget squeeze
Base commissaries face turbulent times as staff vacancies swell under a federal hiring freeze, employee furloughs remain a worry and the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) digests budget guidance for fiscal 2015 that will force new efficiencies on stores...Tags: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Defense, Layoffs and Downsizing, Chuck Hagel, Career and Workplace
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Federal budget cuts put hurt on South Florida's feeding programs
Looming federal budget cuts are putting a big squeeze on programs in South Florida that feed seniors. In Palm Beach County, about 240 daily breakfasts served to the elderly were cut about two weeks ago after $147,000 was lopped off a county program's...
Tags: Palm Beach County, Government Debt, Budgets and Budgeting, Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Congress
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Leesburg tower won't close, thanks to funding fix
LEESBURG — The control tower at Leesburg International Airport won't close next month after all now that the Federal Aviation Administration has funding approval, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced today. The Leesburg tower was one of...
Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Layoffs and Downsizing, Federal Aviation Administration, Ray LaHood, Air Transportation Delays
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Regional airport towers to stay open
Federal aviation regulators will keep 149 contractor-staffed airport towers open at least through Sept. 30 after Congress authorized budget transfers to stave off planned closings. The move affects several Illinois airports whose towers were set to...
Tags: Barack Obama, Air Transportation Industry, Waukegan, Layoffs and Downsizing, U.S. Congress
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NASA boss likes view from Langley
— Nestled inside a cockpit simulator, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden guided a passenger jet through a pea soup fog and touched down on the airport runway with nary a bump. Workers at NASA Langley Research Center hope he can navigate a budget...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Hampton Roads, Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Space Programs, Budgets and Budgeting
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GOP may seek to tie debt ceiling deal to tax code changes
WASHINGTON — In a little more than a week, the U.S. will hit its debt limit — and the maneuvering has begun against a backdrop of the mid-2011 drama that led to the nation's first-ever credit downgrade. An improving economy and higher taxes,...Tags: Finance, John Boehner, Steny Hoyer, Bonds, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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FAA to keep control towers at midsize airports open at night
Budget cuts won't force the closure of air traffic control towers during overnight shifts, the Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday. But the federal agency said it is still uncertain whether it will be forced this summer to close towers...
Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Layoffs and Downsizing, Career and Workplace, Federal Aviation Administration, Unemployment
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Air traffic control towers to stay open overnight
Budget cuts won't force the closure of air traffic control towers during overnight shifts, the Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday. But the federal agency said it is still uncertain whether it will be forced this summer to close towers...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Layoffs and Downsizing, Career and Workplace, Federal Aviation Administration, Unemployment
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Sequestration: 149 air traffic control towers are spared -- for now
The 149 air traffic control towers that were scheduled to close this summer because of federal sequestration will remain open until at least September, government officials said Friday. The Federal Aviation Administration said legislation approved by...
Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Federal Aviation Administration, Air Transportation Delays
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Obama should remember his veto pen mightier than sword
President Obama had the opportunity this week to make an irresponsible Congress face the consequences of its own dumb actions. For reasons I cannot fathom, he took a pass. Rather than use the veto pen that must be gathering dust in some Oval Office...Tags: Finance, Elections, Head Start, Republican Party, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013)
May 13, 2013
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May 12, 2013
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May 10, 2013
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May 10, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
May 10, 2013
|Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press
May 9, 2013
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May 8, 2013
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May 9, 2013
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May 11, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 5, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
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