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Casinos are not like Starbucks stores: You really can’t have one on every corner.
That’s the word from David Cordish, whose company is opening the huge Maryland Live! casino at Arundel Mills next month.
Yet, Cordish warns the expansion of casino gambling can’t go on unchecked forever. A big problem is the attitude of politicians nationwide who view casinos as free money.
The Maryland Court of Appeals has unanimously rejected an attempt by the Libertarian and Green parties to get their candidates back on the state ballot by petition, ruling that the signatures have to exactly match the names on the voter rolls.
In its 7-0 decision, released Monday, the court overruled a Circuit Court judge and upheld the State Board of Elections’ rejection of thousands of signatures on petitions to permit the two minor parties to be back on this year’s ballot.
The two parties were forced to petition for ballot access after neither gained 1 percent of the votes for governor in the 2010 election – 18,759 votes. When that happens, they must gather the signatures of at least 10,000 registered voters to win a place on the next ballot for their candidates, who are nominated by party conventions.
Smith’s Rosebud Salve is a beauty product made entirely within Maryland’s borders, but its brand name stretches far beyond the borders of the country.
In 2003, Sephora, a major beauty chain, picked up the salve for sale in its stores across Europe and the states.
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Urban Outfitters and its higher-end clothing boutique, Anthropologie, also carry the rose-scented balm typically used for dry lips, cuticles and skin, as do many mom-and-pop shops that carried the product before it took off on an international scale. Today, independent shops make up a very small percent of the company’s sales.
Roman Catholic leaders opened a new front against the Obama administration mandate that employers provide workers birth control coverage, filing federal lawsuits Monday on behalf of dioceses, schools and health care agencies that argued the requirement violates religious freedom.
Among the plaintiffs is the University of Notre Dame, which in February praised President Barack Obama for pledging to accommodate religious groups and find a way to soften the rule. Notre Dame’s president, the Rev. John Jenkins, said the school had since decided to sue because “progress has not been encouraging” in talks with administration officials.
The departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs still are five years from their deadline to have a joint, interoperable electronic health record. But early success at the James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (FHCC) in Chicago is paving the way for further tests.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and VA Secretary Eric Shinseki announced Monday hospitals in San Antonio and Hampton Roads, Va., would be the next facilities to implement the initial capabilities of the electronic health record (EHR) by 2014.
Alexandria police are alarmed at the number of red-light camera fines being generated in the city.
During the first three months of this year, more than 3,200 red-light fines have been handed out at the city’s three camera-monitored intersections. Duke and Walker streets, South Patrick and Franklin streets and South Patrick and Gibbon streets all have red-light cameras.
Daily commutes in the Washington area can be brutal. D.C. has fallen to sixth in an annual ranking of the nation’s worst traffic cities, a drop from fourth in 2010.
The INRIX study found that the worst time for traffic in Washington is 5:45 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday evenings.
“Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.” George Washington
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Environmental advocates were among dozens of witnesses lining up to testify Monday on a bill laying out Ohio’s new regulations for horizontal shale drilling and the use of renewable energy.
The testimony before the House Public Utilities Committee was part of a debate on a wide-ranging energy bill that passed the Ohio Senate last week with support of Republicans and some Democrats.
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Sahli said a provision prohibits medical professionals who access proprietary chemical information about the wells from disclosing that information outside of treating individual patients. He said the wording would prevent a doctor from alerting local health departments and first responders.
The government has sued several big banks over toxic mortgage securities they issued that were bought by two small Illinois banks which failed in May 2009.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which seized the two banks when they failed, filed the civil lawsuits Friday in federal court. The agency named as defendants banks including Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS and HSBC.
Which of these facts are you pretty sure of?
We only use about 10 percent of our brain’s capacity. Drinking booze kills brain cells. Vaccines have been linked to autism. Playing classical music to your children can enhance their IQs.
In fact, according to the new website BrainFacts, none of these statements is true. The elaborate website—www.brainfacts.org—was launched last week with $1.5 million in funding over the next six years from the Kavli Foundation in Oxnard, Calif., and the Gatsby Charitable Foundation in London, and with the guidance of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington, D.C.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that children conceived through in vitro fertilization after the death of a parent were not automatically entitled to survivor benefits under the Social Security law.
The justices unanimously sided with the Obama administration and overturned a U.S. appeals court’s ruling for a New Jersey woman who is seeking benefits for her twins conceived by artificial insemination after her husband’s death.
The high court case pitted new reproductive technologies against longstanding requirements to qualify for child survivor benefits under the Social Security Act that date back to 1939.
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