By 2018, more than 68 percent of all American jobs will require a post-secondary education, according to a recent Georgetown University study. That is a 40 percent increase from current job market requirements. In response to these mounting standards, a premier online college for adults—University of Maryland University College—has initiated a project to close the […]
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Paycheck Fairness Act Dies in Senate
The Paycheck Fairness Act, which would have strengthened equal pay opportunity laws for women, failed to clear the Senate Nov. 17. The bill would have amended portions of the existing Equal Pay Act of 1963, and would have made wage discrimination based on sex unlawful. The Senate narrowly rejected the act by a vote of […]
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Katrina Victims Stop Mississippi Governor’s Plan to Divert Fed. Hurricane Recovery Dollars
Some low-income Mississippi residents, still in need of recovery funds five years after Hurricane Katrina, will receive disaster recovery assistance following a Nov. 15 settlement with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. After two years of litigation, the department agreed to redirect to needy residents for home rehabilitation a portion of funds earmarked […]
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Baltimore Businessman Robert ‘Bob’ Haynes Dies
Robert “Bob” Edmund Haynes, a jazz club owner who popularized the Saturday afternoon jazz sets in Baltimore, died Nov. 12. He was 81. Haynes was the original owner of the popular Sportsman’s Lounge and Lamp Post venues, which dominated the Baltimore night scene in the ‘70s and ‘80s. “Every musician played there,” said Valerie Fraling, […]
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Rawlings-Blake Launches New Plan to Tackle Baltimore Blight
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has announced an elaborate strategy to tackle the city’s vacant properties and reduce blight. The plan calls for a streamlined sales process of vacant structures, stricter code enforcements for slumlords and tax incentives to entice more homebuyers and developers to invest in the 16,800 vacant properties that loom in the city. These […]
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Morgan, Area Residents Begin New Partnership
Residents around Morgan State University, fed up with students parking in their neighborhoods, held a protest near the campus Nov. 15. Holding signs demanding their neighborhoods back, a cluster of residents gathered on the corner of East Cold Spring Lane and Hillen Road from about 10 am.-2p.m., said Morgan officials. “Cars are getting hit, mirrors […]
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Private Sector Saw High Job Growth in October
In October, 159,000 jobs were created in the private sector, according to a recent jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The numbers marked the third straight month of increases in private sector job creation, the BLS data show. In August, 143 new private sector jobs were created; the numbers in September show […]
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American Cancer Society, Actor Tim Reid Target Male Health Awareness
The American Cancer Society restated its call Oct. 30 for Black men to become more proactive about preventive health care. At the group’s fourth annual African American Male Health Forum gathering in Richmond, Va., the group had fresh support from actor-producer Tim Reid, a prostate cancer survivor According to the Associated Press, Reid was the […]
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Comments by Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Trigger Talk of Boycott
A backlash against Trinidad and Tobago that has triggered talk of a boycott of its goods has generated a diplomatic storm after its prime minister told reporters the twin-islands would have to get something in return for helping Caribbean neighbors affected by Hurricane Tomas which during the first week of November passed through various Caribbean […]
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Constitutional Convention Appears Unlikely Because of Abstainers
During the General Election, many Marylanders – consumed with the selection of the state’s next governor – ignored the first statewide ballot question that gave voters the option to rewrite the Maryland constitution. Although the majority of the electorate said yes to a Maryland Constitutional Convention—about 142,000 more than those that said no—more than 164, […]
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Support Organization Accepts Responsibility for Baltimore Women in Crisis
In 1988, 27-year-old Wanda Savage discovered she was HIV positive and pregnant. Unable to find services or housing, she struggled financially until she succumbed to the disease in January 1993, leaving behind a young daughter. Her mother Bernice Tucker, embattled by devastation and the need to help others, vowed to seek out better services for […]
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Coppin Pays Tribute to Student Shooting Victim
While Coppin State track star, honors scholar Dale Dunn, recovers from a shooting stemming from an armed robbery in the Mondawmin neighborhood, his fellow students and loved ones congregated for a moving ceremony in his honor Nov. 3. A picture of Dunn at his best, during a recent Coppin State track meet, graced a sign-in […]