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From Johnnie DeGiorgi’s Website
Wednesday April 21, 2010
6:30 - 9:00 PM
Mama Stella’s Ristorante Italiano
7075 Indian Head Hwy.
Bryans Road, MD
Enjoy a fine Italian dinner and
meet your candidate.
Tickets: $30/Seniors $20
Last day of Ticket Sales: Sunday April 18
For tickets email: Degiorgi_for_commissioner@yahoo.com
or call 301-246-4243
There’s an old Irish blessing that confers upon you good fortune and the hope that “trouble avoid you wherever you go.” While that’s all well and good, the Charles County Sheriff’s Office is warning you to avoid relying on luck to stay out of trouble this St. Patrick’s Day: Officers will conduct a sobriety checkpoint and saturation patrols that evening and no amount of luck will keep drunk drivers out of jail.
St. Patrick’s Day is a popular night to celebrate and while we hope folks celebrate responsibly, unfortunately there are still people who think they are immune to the consequences of drunk-driving,” said Sheriff Rex Coffey. “Of course, our greatest hope is that our increased police presence will be enough to prevent people from driving drunk in the first place. But if it’s not, there will be plenty of police officers on patrol and prepared to take drunk drivers to jail.”
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 37 percent of the drivers and motorcyclists involved in fatal crashes on St. Patrick’s Day in 2008 had a blood-alcohol content (BAC) of .08 or greater. Moreover, of the 134 people killed in St. Patrick’s Day automobile crashes, 50 died in crashes with at least one driver who had an illegal BAC.
Many workers around the world have given up hopes of advancing in their jobs, but the bad economy is keeping them from finding new ones.
Such “walking wounded” workers are increasingly exchanging ambition for job stability, which now even trumps pay as a consideration, according to a biennial survey by the human resources consultancy Towers Watson Co.
People are becoming “nesters,” who prefer to stay in one career or with one employer for their entire career.
The report highlights a disconnect between what such “nesters” want and the growing trends that are shaping the global workforce: an increasing emphasis on flexible staff and short-term employment, more offshoring and part-time work.
Debate is heating up within the Federal Reserve over how and when to signal that the days of record-low interest rates are numbered.
A rate hike isn’t imminent. But at their meeting, which started Tuesday morning, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues will likely focus on how to telegraph that higher rates are coming once the economic recovery is more deeply rooted. Eventually, Fed policymakers will need to start bumping up rates to head off inflation.
A Senate panel took the first bite out of Gov. Martin O’Malley’s $13 billion general fund spending plan Monday night, voting to remove an estimated $150 million, mostly from small snips to hundreds of education and health programs.
“We tried to do the appropriate thing,” said Sen. Edward J. Kasemeyer, who chairs the Health, Education and Human Resources Subcommittee. “We could have taken more.”
Details: Location: Town of La Plata, 305 Queen Anne St.
Description: Saturday, April 17 noon to 4:00 grounds of La Plata Town Hall
12:00 Southern Maryland Blue Crabs parade of players along La Grange Ave.
12:00-4 La Plata Police Dept Open House
12:30-1 Meet and Greet Southern Maryland Blue Crabs Players
12:30 Port Tobacco Player Encore Kids presentation of “From the Elephant Pit”
1:00-3 “Roadhouse” band
1:45 Nanjemoy Creek Education Environmental Center, CCPS; Raptor Conservation Program
2:00 Speed & Thro High Energy Magic Show
3:00 La Plata Bed Races
Free children’s activities, food vendors, and much more!
For more information contact Julie Lemmon at 301-934-8421 or jlemmon@townoflaplata.org
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With huge bills about to hit corporations and the federal government around the same time, the worry is that some companies will have trouble getting new loans, spurring defaults and a wave of bankruptcies.
The United States government alone will need to borrow nearly $2 trillion in 2012, to bridge the projected budget deficit for that year and to refinance existing debt.
Indeed, worries about the growth of national, or sovereign, debt prompted Moody’s Investors Service to warn on Monday that the United States and other Western nations were moving “substantially” closer to losing their top-notch Aaa credit ratings.
A publication of the Maryland Association of Counties - March 8, 2010
ANNAPOLIS, MD (March 15, 2010) –Governor Martin O’Malley released a StateStat update today on the State’s progress to protect Maryland families from sex offenders. In a video update available online, Governor O’Malley urged Maryland citizens to call on their legislators to approve legislation to require lifetime monitoring for convicted sex offenders, expand sex offender registration criteria, and align Maryland’s laws with federal child safety regulations.
“Our highest priority in the State of Maryland – and the most sacred priority of government at every level – is the public’s safety,” said Governor O’Malley. “In our State, we’re united by our belief in the dignity of every individual and our belief that there is no such thing as a spare Marylander. The loss of even one more innocent life is unacceptable. We can pass these important reforms, but we can’t do it alone.”
ANNAPOLIS, MD (March 15, 2010) –Governor Martin O’Malley announced today that Maryland will receive $2,474,638 under the federal STOP Violence Against Women Formula Grant Program. The program provides funds for Services, Training, Officers and Prosecutors (STOP) in implementing the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).
“One of our most solemn obligations as public servants is the safety of the citizens we serve,” said Governor O’Malley. “Last year, 53 individuals died as a result of domestic violence in Maryland and, of those, 27 were killed with a firearm. Programs funded through the STOP program help us ensure that women throughout Maryland feel safe and secure. I want to thank Senator Barbara Mikulski and the leaders of our federal delegation for their work in securing these funds.”
A decade ago, China’s leaders gave the go-ahead to a colossal plan to bring more than 8 trillion gallons of water a year from the rivers of central China to the country’s arid north. The project would have erected towering dams, built hundreds of miles of pipelines and tunnels, and created vast reservoirs with a price tag three times that of the giant Three Gorges Dam.
But the plan’s biggest section, which was supposed to break ground this year, has run aground after a group of academics and experts voiced alarm about costs, environmental damage and earthquake dangers. Though a rare victory for ordinary citizens, the halting of that part of the project leaves behind water shortages that could cause the entire Chinese economy to founder.
After laying the groundwork for a decisive vote this week on the Senate’s health-care bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Monday that she might attempt to pass the measure without having members vote on it.
Instead, Pelosi (D-Calif.) would rely on a procedural sleight of hand: The House would vote on a more popular package of fixes to the Senate bill; under the House rule for that vote, passage would signify that lawmakers “deem” the health-care bill to be passed.
The tactic—known as a “self-executing rule” or a “deem and pass”—has been commonly used, although never to pass legislation as momentous as the $875 billion health-care bill. It is one of three options that Pelosi said she is considering for a late-week House vote, but she added that she prefers it because it would politically protect lawmakers who are reluctant to publicly support the measure.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
~John Locke
Electronic messages posted on area highways are meant to help commutes—but they’re having the opposite effect for some drivers.
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It seems the information being displayed is so interesting, that drivers are slowing down to read.
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“Now, there are new messages on the overhead signs, telling us how long it’s going to take to get to the BW Parkway exit and the 95 interchange. Before each of these boards, traffic comes to an almost stop! This is ridiculous!”
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