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Orange unanimously OKs ethics, finance reforms
Sentinel Staff WriterOrange County commissioners unanimously approved ethics and campaign-finance reforms late Tuesday — a package that some residents and government watchdog groups complained didn't go far enough. Even so, county Mayor Rich Crotty, whose past business...Tags: Rich Crotty, Campaign Finance, Political Campaigns, Ethics, Referenda
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Lobbying for minor details
Sun reportersState Sen. Ulysses Currie has repeatedly intervened with state agencies since at least 2003 on behalf of Shoppers Food and Pharmacy, involving himself in the minute details of its business, such as traffic light installations, roadside improvements and...Tags: Technology, Owings Mills, Groceries, Reisterstown, Supervalu Inc.
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McCain, Obama Pitch Economic Plans to Hispanics
Associated PressWASHINGTON -- Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama pitched competing economic plans to Hispanics on Tuesday, the second time in as many weeks the presidential candidates directly appealed to this critical constituency. The rivals, to be sure,...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Newspapers, Campaign Finance, Bill Clinton, Television Industry
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Dom's Dugout
ΔAgony of victory: Terry Francona won't give away his thoughts on the All-Star selection process and seems to be enjoying his evasiveness. "We owe it to the players involved for the process to be agonizing," he said. He has been in contact with...Tags: Mike Lowell, Derek Jeter, David Ortiz, Ted Williams, New York Mets
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Raising voices on Alzheimer's
The Associated PressDon Hayen has a handy way of deflecting the instant pity that comes when he reveals his Alzheimer's disease: "But I haven't lost my keys all day," he quickly jokes. Hayen is part of a growing new movement in Alzheimer's: Patients diagnosed early enough...Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Mental Illness, Diseases, Illnesses, Research
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Northampton County poised to elect new top jurist
Of The Morning CallFor the first time since 1991, someone other than Robert A. Freedberg will be president judge in Northampton County. Prior to 2005, under the state constitution, in counties with no more than seven judges the jurist with the most continuous years of...Tags: Judges, Upper House, Parliament, Constitutional Issues, Local Elections
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Best-sellers
FICTION 1. "Fearless Fourteen" by Janet Evanovich 2. "Sail" by James Patterson and Howard Roughan 3. "Rogue" by Danielle Steel 4. "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer 5. "TailSpin" by Catherine Coulter (Putnam) 6. "Love the One You're With" by Emily...Tags: Lee Child, Clive Cussler, Barack Obama, The White House, Lauren Weisberger
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Reluctance to redo levees gets rise out of farmers
Chicago Tribune reporterAs he looks out over his still-submerged family farm, Russell Torrance knows that it was just a few inches on a rising Mississippi River that made the difference between staying bone dry and being consumed by a massive flood. And it is the devastation...Tags: Mississippi, University of Maryland, Natural Disasters, State Budgets, Burlington
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Will Michelle Obama unite nation's feminists?
Washington BureauWASHINGTON — Gina McCauley's blog on African-American women in pop culture has never attracted this kind of attention. The 3-year-old site has a mostly African-American audience. But she launched a new Michelle Obama Watch blog in June to monitor...Tags: Alice Walker, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Colleges and Universities, Primaries
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Air conditioning is hot topic
Sun reporterThe classrooms at Hebbville Elementary School on Baltimore County's west side got so hot this year that 8-year-old Cameron Harris' mother sometimes took him out of school early on especially muggy afternoons. "When I hear him complaining about not...Tags: Weather Reports, Middle Schools, Schools, Family, Students
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