This week, the board cut another $362 million from the budget. It wasn't pretty or kind - but neither is this nation's economic recession.
Among the victims in this round were college students of low- and middle-income parents who will lose $7 million in financial aid and Eastern Shore residents who will lose a state psychiatric hospital in Chestertown.
Those losses will mean many financially strapped students will not be able to afford college this fall and several...
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Maryland budget - 2009-11-21 01:40:43
..Nice bold move by a sitting governor. . . .It takes a clear mind to visualize and evaluate a course through "troubled times." . . .and that is why we call him "governor." . . It is his job. . .I do not want it; he does. . . Let him do his job and govern. . .That's why I voted for him.
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Slots cure cancer... - 2009-11-20 15:09:25
Just an idea for this weekends 'Our Say' column to follow up on the "job fair."
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