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Skeptical Supreme Court might strike down Defense of Marriage Act
Concluding two days of intense debate, the Supreme Court signaled Wednesday it could give a boost to same-sex marriage by striking down the federal law that denies legally married gay spouses a wide range of benefits offered to other couples. As the...
Tags: Justice System, Military Justice, West Point, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Elena Kagan
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Journalism plagued by cliches
I am a journalist. Specifically, this means that while I should be out investigating government waste and corporate fraud, I would much rather sit around and discuss an issue that to me is far more important: Journalism cliches. The issue came up when...
Tags: The Washington Post, Diane Sawyer , Annapolis, Journalism
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Mikulski announces $43 million in funding for more multirole enforcement aircraft
cj.lovelace@herald-mail.comStanding in front of a newly modified Hawker Beechcraft surveillance plane, U.S. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski on Tuesday announced $43 million in federal funding recently approved by Congress devoted to outfitting two additional multirole enforcement aircraft...Tags: Drug Trafficking, Employment Opportunities, Interior Policy, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Personal Data Collection
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Congress funds continued production of surveillance planes in Hagerstown
U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski said Congress has approved $43 million to continue production of border-patrol planes in Hagerstown. The Democratic senator said Monday that the funds were part of a continuing resolution Congress passed last week to keep the...
Tags: Barbara A. Mikulski, Elections, Politics
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Rockefeller convenes panel to address protecting children from violence in media
richardb@herald-mail.comRatings help, but parental intervention is the key to protecting children from the effects of playing violent video games, watching violence in movies and on television and seeing what’s widely available on the Internet, according to participants in...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Mental Health, Family, Social Sciences, John D. Rockefeller IV
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Local postal workers rally to keep Saturday delivery
julieg@herald-mail.comMore than 100 people attended a rally Sunday afternoon in downtown Hagerstown that a local branch of the National Association of Letter Carriers held to advocate maintaining six-day delivery of mail. In February, the postal service announced plans to cut...Tags: Patrick R. Donahoe, U.S. Postal Service, Mail Order Industry
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Hagerstown Regional Airport control tower on sequestration budget cuts list
dona@herald-mail.com and cj.lovelace@herald-mail.comThe control tower at Hagerstown Regional Airport is included on a list of 149 regional airport control towers that will close because of federal budget cuts known as sequestration, the FAA announced Friday afternoon. “We got the word. We didn&...Tags: Leesburg, Local Government, Ocean City, U.S. Department of Transportation, Government Debt
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Village post office opens on Sharpsburg Pike
dona@herald-mail.comAt a time when the U.S. Postal Service is recommending cutting Saturday service, it is actually adding outlets for customers in the form of village post offices such as the one at May’s Service Center at 8708 Sharpsburg Pike, where a grand opening...Tags: Pension and Welfare, Interior Policy, U.S. Postal Service, Mail Order Industry, Health Insurance
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Larry Wellborn: Scaling back on postal services
The Postal Service has been in the news a lot lately, and for good reason. The Postal Service has lost billions of dollars while losing market share to electronic forms of communication. But this is not entirely the fault of the Post Office or the...Tags: Consumers, Marketing, U.S. Postal Service, Career and Workplace, Consumer Confidence
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Md. House votes to increase taxes on gasoline
Associated PressThe Maryland House of Delegates voted Friday to raise taxes on gasoline sales for the first time in more than two decades. The Housed voted 76-63 to levy a sales tax on gasoline that would amount to about 4 cents a gallon starting this July, another 8...Tags: Maryland General Assembly, Montgomery County (Virginia), Purple Line (Maryland), Petroleum Industry, Inflation and Deflation
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Letters to the Editor - March 22
Garden Club says thanks for Art in Bloom’s success To the editor: On behalf of the Hagerstown Garden Club, the sponsors of Art in Bloom, I would like to thank the entire community for its enthusiastic support of this event, specifically for the...Tags: Property, Roxbury, Career and Workplace, Politics, Arts and Culture
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GOP budget plan promising deep cuts is approved by House
Associated PressThe Republican-controlled House passed a tea party-flavored budget plan Thursday that promises sharp cuts in safety-net programs for the poor and a clampdown on domestic agencies, in sharp contrast to less austere plans favored by President Barack Obama...Tags: Tea Party Movement, John Boehner, Health Insurance Cost, National Institutes of Health, Government Health Care
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