Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake says her proposed budget closes a $48 million deficit while cutting homeowners’ property taxes. The preliminary budget for fiscal 2013 is set to be presented to the Board of Estimates on Wednesday morning. The $2.3 billion ...

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Sparrows Point is back to work Employees of the RG Steel plant in Baltimore County’s Sparrows Point have returned to work earlier than expected after about 720 of them were furloughed Dec. 22. Most returned last week, with about 250 more ...

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Employees of the RG Steel plant in Sparrows Point have returned to work earlier than expected after about 720 people were furloughed right before Christmas. “Everybody’s coming back,” said Chris MacLarion, vice president of United Steelworkers Local 9477, which represents ...

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720 furloughed at steel mill About 720 workers at the Sparrows Point steel mill south of Baltimore will be laid off until early March, according to the state Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation. New owner RG Steel informed the department’s ...

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About 720 workers at the Sparrows Point steel mill will be laid off until early March, according to the state Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation. New owner RG Steel LLC informed the department’s unemployment insurance division of the furloughs ...

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Cheryl F. Cohens says that for more than seven years she requested a pay raise that was promised her when she joined the Maryland Department of Human Resources training unit in 2002, with no results. So, according to Cohens, when ...

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WASHINGTON — On the surface, the partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration is about whether to cut $16 million in air service subsidies, a pretty small amount in this town. Underneath are layers upon layers of political gamesmanship that, ...

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WASHINGTON — The congressional standoff that has partially shut down the Federal Aviation Administration has some curious math. Lawmakers risk losing more than $1 billion in revenue from uncollected airline ticket taxes in a quarrel between Senate Democrats and House ...

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WASHINGTON — The budget deal lawmakers struck to avoid a government shutdown was greeted by some with relief, but it has one city already reeling: the capital itself. City officials say Washington was used as a pawn last week’s budget ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland’s governor’s office says a two-week federal government shutdown could cost the state millions in reduced income tax revenue and reduced spending on taxable goods. In addition, Gov. Martin O’Malley’s office said Thursday, there could be more revenue ...

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