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John R. Duffy, police officer
John R. Duffy, a retired Baltimore police officer and Navy veteran who witnessed the Japanese surrender that ended World War II, died Wednesday of a heart attack at Ivy Hall nursing home in Middle River.
The longtime Perry Hall resident was 87.
The...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Roman Catholicism, Patterson Park, Fredericksburg (Fredericksburg, Virginia), Christianity
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Dock workers, ports reach tentative agreement, averting strike
Dock workers and the management of 15 East Coast and Gulf ports reached a tentative agreement on a new master contract late Friday night, averting a threatened walkout on Wednesday. The six-year deal between the International Longshoremen's Association,...
Tags: Strikes, Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Labor Legislation, Jim White, Career and Workplace
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Port cruise ship traffic dips slightly in 2012
Cruise traffic at the port of Baltimore last year dipped slightly from 2011, snapping a four-year string of increases.
Port officials said Wednesday that 240,676 people sailed on 100 cruises out of Baltimore, the second-highest count since year-round...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Cruises, Carnival Cruise Lines, Travel, Royal Caribbean International
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Longshoremen avert strike at 15 ports, including Baltimore
Longshoremen and the management of East Coast and Gulf ports reached a tentative agreement on a new master contract late Friday night, averting a threatened walkout next week. The deal between the International Longshoremen's Association, which...
Tags: Strikes, Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Cruise Line Ports, Career and Workplace, International Longshoremen's Association
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O'Malley's staff releases sneak peek of State of the State
The Baltimore SunGov. Martin O'Malley's seventh State of the State speech will begin at noon today, but aides have released excerpts of his speech, advertised under the banner "Better Choices; Better Results." Here is a sneak peek of O'Malley's prepared remarks:...Tags: Martin O'Malley, Credit Ratings
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Busch names panel on Baltimore area revitalization
House Speaker Michael E. Busch said Friday that he has created a work group of delegates to study strategies for economic revitalization of the Baltimore region. Busch said he has directed the nine-member panel to review existing programs and recommend...Tags: Michael E. Busch, Baltimore County
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Contract talks continue between longshoremen, port operators
With a little more than two weeks to go before a contract extension between East Coast and Gulf dockworkers and port operators expires, the federal mediator said Thursday that progress is being made toward a long-term settlement. George Cohen, director...Tags: Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, International Longshoremen's Association, United States Maritime Alliance, Ltd.
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$8.6 million C&D Canal dredging project unclogs route for ship traffic
The Army Corps of Engineers expects to lift navigational restrictions on the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal this week after emergency dredging removed shoaling that emerged in November.
At 14 miles long and 450 feet wide, the canal is a major artery for...Tags: Chesapeake City, U.S. Army, Weather Warnings, Inner Harbor, Cecil County
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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: United Steelworkers, Health and Safety at Work, Martin O'Malley, Career and Workplace, Unemployment
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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: Fiscal Cliff, Bethlehem Steel, Barack Obama, Barbara A. Mikulski, Unemployment Benefits
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Thinking big about how to renew Sparrows Point manufacturing
Here's what I'm thinking: We get La Famille DeBeaufre to establish a second bakery in Sparrows Point and ship their beloved Berger Cookies all over the world — to China, India, Brazil, Mexico and other nations with rising economies. And maybe we...
Tags: Dundalk, Industrial Production, Politics, Science and Technology, Kevin Kamenetz
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Baltimore's port readies for strike as deadline nears
Retail giants, shipping companies and federal agencies are racing the clock to make plans as an East Coast and Gulf dock strike this weekend appears imminent. The International Longshoremen's Association, representing nearly 15,000 dockworkers from...
Tags: Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Cruise Line Ports, Barack Obama, International Longshoremen's Association, American Apparel
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