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June 19, 2007
The issue of state government hiring and firing is back in the news again thanks to an administrative law judge's ruling in favor of Gregory J. Maddalone, the former figure skater most recently turned Department of Transportation homeland security expert. He was a central figure in the squabble over the Ehrlich administration's personnel policies, so the irony was too obvious to miss: Mr. Maddalone used to help fire people for allegedly political reasons and now the O'Malley administration is having trouble firing him under what may be similar circumstances.
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By Justin Fenton | January 30, 2007
Gov. Martin O'Malley is to announce three more Cabinet appointments today, a day after a state Senate committee unanimously approved seven nominees and a new people's counsel for the board that regulates utilities. The picks require final approval of the full Senate. Thirteen of 21 positions have now been filled. Cathy Raggio, executive director of a suburban Washington nonprofit organization, said yesterday that she is to replace Kristen Cox as secretary of disabilities, an office with a budget of $6.8 million that drew attention last year when then-Gov.
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By Michael Dresser | February 19, 1999
Gov. Parris N. Glendening's plan to give Maryland's 530,000 veterans a state Cabinet department received a warm reception yesterday from a Senate committee led by one of their own.The administration's bill to create a Department of Veterans Affairs fulfills a promise made by the governor during last year's campaign. It would combine three commissions under a single Cabinet secretary, at a cost estimated at $84,100 next year.Sen. Clarence W. Blount, a World War II Army veteran who chairs the Economic and Environmental Affairs Committee, volunteered his strong support for the measure.
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By Jim Haner | December 22, 1999
In a continuing enforcement sweep against properties owned by slum speculator James M. Stein, the city Health Department cited his Pick'n Chick'n real estate company yesterday for failing to correct lead paint hazards in a rental house where a child was poisoned in 1997."
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By Mark Matthews | October 11, 1999
JERUSALEM -- In what may mark the end of rogue Jewish settlement outposts, the Israeli government plans to begin removing hilltop encampments erected illegally over the past couple of years in the West Bank, officials said yesterday.Prime Minister Ehud Barak received the go-ahead from a special Cabinet committee yesterday to order the dismantling of the small settlements."The government is on the verge of telling the military which caravan outposts should be removed," a government source said last night.
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By Gerard Shields | November 4, 1999
After a resounding election win Tuesday, Baltimore Mayor-elect Martin O'Malley wasted little time yesterday introducing a 20-member committee to help him pick key Cabinet members and begin working to "change and reform" city government.About 100 people crowded into a City Hall hearing room to get a glimpse of the city's 47th mayor, who at 36 will be the youngest in Baltimore history.O'Malley was all business as he unveiled a transition team that contains a mix of races, ages, genders, interests and occupations, from banker to soup-kitchen operator.
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By Will Englund | May 29, 1999
MOSCOW -- Loyalty to Boris N. Yeltsin exacts its toll, as Russia's new prime minster, Sergei Stepashin, has been finding out. Stepashin may be in charge of the Cabinet, as he felt it necessary to point out earlier this week, but that doesn't mean he has much of a say in how it's put together.Stepashin has been burdened by Yeltsin with a deputy premier, Nikolai Aksyonenko, who acts as though he didn't hear the "deputy" part when he was offered the job. The other deputy premier, Mikhail Zadornov, was Stepashin's man, and the thinking was he might balance Aksyonenko.
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By LOS ANGELES TIMES | April 1, 1999
BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Political leaders worked furiously into today to rescue the Northern Ireland peace agreement, trying to pull it back from the brink of failure just as the landmark accord reaches its first anniversary.Negotiators from major factions and the British and Irish prime ministers held around-the-clock talks without notable progress on the dispute that threatens to sink the deal: when and how to disarm the Irish Republican Army.Unless the dispute is resolved in the next few days, observers say, the peace process risks losing so much credibility that it may not recover, prompting a new cycle of violence that could escalate and cause the peace talks to collapse.
BUSINESS
By KAROL V. MENZIE AND RON NODINE | March 7, 1999
THE END IS in sight -- literally -- for Dick and Nancy Councill, who've been enduring a major construction and renovation project on their home. The exterior is 99 percent complete, most of what is going on now is inside. The trim is finished, the painter is almost done, and the ceramic tile is nearing completion.But the big moment came when Ron's crew removed the plywood from the doors that enter the existing house and replaced it with plastic. Now you can see into the new space from the house, and it really opens things up.There is still a lot going on. Ron has been working with Nancy on selecting finishes and fixtures for a couple of weeks.
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By Gilbert A. Lewthwaite | June 18, 1999
PRETORIA, South Africa -- President Thabo Mbeki appointed a down-to-business Cabinet yesterday, shuffling some portfolios and leaving others in the hands of key ministers from the administration of former President Nelson Mandela."