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Meeting #1, July 27, 2007, Maryland Department of the Environment,The Center for Climate Strategies

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The Maryland Bass Federation Nation is an organization with more than 70 local clubs that encourages responsible angling on our region’s waterways.

We are leaders in promoting a conservation ethic by teaching respect for our environment and having our members practice catch-and-release fishing. Because our members are the “end users” of the waters that drain from our watersheds, we also support watershed protection and restoration efforts throughout the Chesapeake Bay region.

WELCOME, Md.

Russell Sylvester’s company, Russell’s Crabbing Charters, was so new in June 2006 that the Maryland Natural Resources Police ran a sting on him.

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Foundation work started in June on the tallest U.S. building, which would stand 2,000 feet high over downtown Chicago in 2010, if completed on time. The Chicago Spire would look like a giant corkscrew to shed wind currents that might make the building sway. It would house about 1,200 condominiums.

If you are looking for the future of legal scholarship, chances are that you may find it not in a treatise or the traditional law review but in a different form, profoundly influenced by the blogosphere.

Law-related blogs are proliferating on the Internet—more than 80 are listed on the blogroll of one popular law-related blog, Concurring Opinions. A significant number of the blogs—sometimes called “blawgs”—are hosted by law professors.

An ethics panel has warned county officials that a bill allowing uniformed police officers to moonlight in bingo halls and restaurants that serve alcohol could result in a legal challenge from the state.

In an opinion issued Thursday, the Anne Arundel County Ethics Commission upheld its previous opinion that police officers “might be tempted to ignore minor illegal activity by the secondary employer” and argued that a proposal before the County Council “presents issues of conflict of interest that should be carefully examined.”

Haven’t the New York City politicians heard of coal-fired power plants? They need to get in step with the times.

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In Maryland, she’s a state trooper. In the National Guard nine years, she’s also a trained Army medic. But in the center of a war zone, Spc. Marta Koock has become a tour guide.
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Koock, from Charles County, principally works at the resort-like Camp Slayer, where Hussein’s old palaces line carp-filled lakes. Her other duties include managing some of the 600 lease agreements that establish where military and contractor tenants can erect their housing and offices.

Dressed in colorful, shimmering leotards, the 30 girls gathered on the big blue mats inside the Elite Gymnastics and Recreation Center in Waldorf.

Smiling brightly after warming up, they were ready for the day’s challenge: a gymnastics workshop led by former Olympian Dominique Dawes.

Even as Southern Maryland farmers stopped growing tobacco, the crop helped pay the bills.

After years of declining usage, falling prices and increases in the cost of labor, tobacco had begun to lose its hold. So from 2000 to 2005, farmers were paid $1 per pound not to grow the plant that had served as a cornerstone of agricultural life in the region for generations.

The name for Oz in the “Wizard of Oz” was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence “Oz.”

Anna Dailey (staff writer at The Bay Net) made the following reply to a comment made by a reader on the article “Citizens Fear ‘Plume of Doom’, Dry Water Wells; State Turns Deaf Ear”.  (Make sure you read all the comments over at The Bay Net on the article.)

Rose Lady,

We know about the closed loop system. It’s a marvelous idea, but it’s not the total cure here.

The county has to build the closed loop system. They have to budget the money to extend the pipes all the way out there.

Last spring when they were forecasting capital improvement projects in the budget for the next five years, this system wasn’t on the list. That means something else is going to have to give in order to come up with the money to build the thing.

Mirant sure isn’t going to pony up. They sit right on a lovely big supply of river water but didn’t want to spend the $ on a desalinization system to make it usable.

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