The Daily Record announces its 2012 Leading Women honorees

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: September 27, 2012
Tags: 2012, honorees, hyatt regency inner harbor, leading women, The Daily Record, winners
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The Daily Record is proud to announce its Leading Women honorees for 2012. Leading Women identifies women age 40 or younger for the tremendous accomplishments they have made so far in their career. They were judged on professional experience, community involvement and a commitment to inspiring change. This year’s honorees will be honored at a [...]

Student debt stretches to record levels

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: September 27, 2012
Tags: college, debt, federal reserve, Pew Research Center, Richard Fry, student loans, Survey of Consumer Finances, washington
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WASHINGTON — With college enrollment growing, student debt has stretched to a record number of U.S. households — nearly 1 in 5 — with the biggest burdens falling on the young and poor. The analysis by the Pew Research Center found that 22.4 million households, or 19 percent, had college debt in 2010. That is [...]

PNC wins fight over trust-fund distribution 

BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: September 27, 2012
Tags: breaking legal news, Court of Appeals, distribution, Judge Mary Ellen Barbera, Law, losses, Marion W. Bevard, maryland, Maryland Tax-General Article, PNC, PNC Bank N.A., trust fund

Trustees may request that beneficiaries release them from liability as a condition of distributing trust funds, Maryland’s high court ruled Thursday.

Gene Policinski: American free speech challenge for others 

BY: Gene Policinski
POSTED: September 27, 2012
Tags: american government, freedom of speech, gene policinski, Innocence of Muslims, inside the first amendment, Mohammed Morsi

I can say what I want, even if it offends you. And so can you.

Montgomery County vets press for gambling

BY: marylandreporter.com
POSTED: September 27, 2012
Tags: american legion, chesapeake bay, gambling, Montgomery County, veterans of foreign wars

Advocates from Montgomery County veteran’s organizations, the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars, are lobbying the county’s House delegation to change their minds on gambling machines for veteran’s posts. The veterans want the delegation to include the county in the state’s gambling expansion that allows up to five pull-tab video lottery terminals in veterans [...]

Movie theaters forced to make expensive upgrades to projectors 

BY: Alissa Gulin
POSTED: September 27, 2012
Tags: Baltimore’s Charles Theater, Business, Christie Digital Systems USA Inc., digital, entertainment, James "Buzz" Cusack, Kathleen Lyon, movie theater, projector, Rich Daughtridge, Senator Theatre, upgrade, vpf

Cinematic entertainment has come a long way from the black-and-white talkies that fostered the growth of one of the world’s largest leisure industries. The movie business can be lucrative, but it often throws major curveballs at theater owners — especially small, independent ones.

C. Fraser Smith: Be careful what you wish for 

BY: C. Fraser Smith
POSTED: September 27, 2012
Tags: Baltimore, C. Fraser Smith, frederick h. bealefeld III, Herring Run Park, maryland, mayor stephanie rawlings-blake, oakland, Peter Marvit, police commissioner

If you’re a leader, you have to be thinking ahead.

Craig A. Thompson: So you clicked ‘like,’ but then what? 

BY: Craig A. Thompson
POSTED: September 27, 2012
Tags: activism, Craig A. Thompson, georgetown university, Joseph Kony, social media, The Dynamics of Cause Engagement

I recently engaged in a very healthy debate with a friend about the level of political and social engagement in years past compared with the level of involvement today.

Editorial: Wasted energy? No, caution is wise path 

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: September 27, 2012
Tags: Economy, Editorial, Energy, fracking, gov. o'malley, marcellus shale, National Wildlife Federation, offshore wind, resources, western maryland

Storm warnings have been posted for two possible sources of energy and jobs for the Maryland economy.

Week in review – 9/28/12 

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: September 27, 2012
Tags: Attorney Grievance Commission, Baltimore Regional Transportation Board, college park, cordish cos., court of special appeals, Del. Tiffany T. Alston, department of transportation, Exelon Corp., Georgia Pacific, hollywood casino perryville, maryland, u.s. postal service, University of Maryland, Week in Review

City wants to shift funds to bridge A plan to build a $32.9 million bridge from the foot of Central Avenue near Fells Point across a small inlet to Harbor Point — the site of the new Exelon Corp. divisional headquarters — will receive money originally targeted for other Baltimore road projects already in the [...]

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