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For the fourth year in a row, Maryland has the second highest number of millionaires per capita, according to a report by the Phoenix Affluent Marketing Service. With Hawaii in the lead, Maryland ranks second with about 6.8 percent, or 144,686 households in the state are millionaires—an increase from last year's 6.3 percent, followed by New Jersey and Connecticut with 6.7 percent of households, report released last month said, noting that the top states tend to be smaller with large concentrations of "highly educated professionals and business owners.

The Baltimore area had the third-highest income growth among the nation's largest metro areas over the past 25 years, in both the short term and the long term, a study released Wednesday showed. Portfolio.com, a business news website, ranked income growth in 100 U.S. cities using a quarter-century's worth of federal income data. The analysis put El Paso, Texas, in first place and placed Baton Rouge, La., second, followed by Baltimore, the Virginia Beach-Norfolk, Va., area and New Orleans.

A $6.6 billion combined aid package for Micronesia and the Marshall Islands won't keep pace with inflation during the next 20 years and will ultimately produce a substantial cut in the per capita aid to the two impoverished nations, a U.S. General Acounting Office official testified yesterday. Susan S. Westin, the GAO's managing director of international affairs and trade, told the House subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific that an analysis of the proposed aid packages negotiated with the two countries as part of a revised Compact of Free Association shows that even with the creation of trust funds, the countries will face substantial cuts.

For the fourth year in a row, Maryland has the second highest number of millionaires per capita, according to a report by the Phoenix Affluent Marketing Service. With Hawaii in the lead, Maryland ranks second with about 6.8 percent, or 144,686 households in the state are millionaires—an increase from last year's 6.3 percent, followed by New Jersey and Connecticut with 6.7 percent of households, report released last month said, noting that the top states tend to be smaller with large concentrations of "highly educated professionals and business owners.

The nation's capital is also the murder capital of the United States, according to a Detroit Free Press computer analysis of preliminary crime figures released yesterday by the FBI.It was the second consecutive year that Washington, D.C., led the nation's most populous cities in per capita homicides. The study ranked cities over 100,000 population on the basis of per capita offense rates for crime categories monitored by the FBI.Detroit, once scorned as the murder capital of the nation, dropped to fourth place in per capita homicides in 1990 behind Washington, New Orleans and Atlanta.

Marylanders use less gasoline per capita than people in most other states - 551 gallons. The national average is 586 gallons. Residents of Wyoming use the most gas per capita - 1,244 gallons. Data are from 2000. They include gasohol but exclude "special fuels" such as diesel. ....State.... Lowest gas usage ................per capita, in gallons....Rank New York......349............................1 Hawaii......355................................2 Rhode Island......435..............

An Associated Press article carried in Monday's editions erroneously reported that the federal government spent an average of $4,599 for every American last year.The figure for fiscal 1993 actually was $4,814 per American. The $4,599 figure was the per capita amount spent in fiscal 1992.The Sun regrets the errors.

Some see the sign of the revival of cities in scaffolding outside old buildings, others in the construction of sparkling new residential buildings, still others in the proliferation of Starbucks coffee shops. Urban scholars William H. Lucy and David L. Phillips see the sign in an analysis of census data on income. In a recent paper, the University of Virginia researchers found an uptick in per-capita income of residents of major cities compared with residents of their metro areas between 2000 and 2005.

I find it unbelievable that the cost for the 2010 census is estimated at just under $15 billion. A quick calculation shows that the cost translates to almost $50 per U.S. citizen. In this day of number crunching and data mining, this per capita cost seems excessive. I am sure if this process were placed under bid by private contractors, a less costly and more efficient process would ensue. This government endeavor only provides fodder for those who condemn government services. Chris Shane, Towson

The United States lags "at least a dozen years" behind other industrialized countries in adopting electronic medical records, according to a study published yesterday in the journal Health Affairs. Gerard F. Anderson, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Bianca K. Frogner, a graduate student there; Roger A. Johns, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; and Uwe Reinhardt, a professor of economics at Princeton University, are the authors of the article.

I find it unbelievable that the cost for the 2010 census is estimated at just under $15 billion. A quick calculation shows that the cost translates to almost $50 per U.S. citizen. In this day of number crunching and data mining, this per capita cost seems excessive. I am sure if this process were placed under bid by private contractors, a less costly and more efficient process would ensue. This government endeavor only provides fodder for those who condemn government services. Chris Shane, Towson

About 160 million people with incomes a fifth or less than the average U.S. income live less than 1,500 miles from our southern border. Given this huge income gap, more border agents and more miles of fence cannot prevent substantial illegal migration. But such migration is actually the United States' most effective foreign aid program, helping some of the poorest people in the world. Some believe such migration should be tolerated, not fought to the death. A look at history suggests that even as illegal migration ebbs and flows, it will remain a problem for the United States.

Some see the sign of the revival of cities in scaffolding outside old buildings, others in the construction of sparkling new residential buildings, still others in the proliferation of Starbucks coffee shops. Urban scholars William H. Lucy and David L. Phillips see the sign in an analysis of census data on income. In a recent paper, the University of Virginia researchers found an uptick in per-capita income of residents of major cities compared with residents of their metro areas between 2000 and 2005.

The United States lags "at least a dozen years" behind other industrialized countries in adopting electronic medical records, according to a study published yesterday in the journal Health Affairs. Gerard F. Anderson, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Bianca K. Frogner, a graduate student there; Roger A. Johns, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; and Uwe Reinhardt, a professor of economics at Princeton University, are the authors of the article.

I need to give out some props to the 25 companies and programs and nearly 100 men and women who have agreed to volunteer their time for tomorrow's job fair at the St. Frances Community Center on East Chase Street. This is the fourth year for this King Day event, which brings together prospective employers and men and women in the hunt for jobs, particularly those who've had a tough time because of their criminal records. Ralph Moore, the chief organizer, says this will be the biggest fair the center has staged.

The secret of success in government contracting, as with real estate, is location, location, location -- now more than ever. Capitalizing on its proximity to the nation's capital, Maryland moved up to No. 2 among all states in per capita federal spending on goods and services between fall 2003 and fall 2004, according to Census Bureau numbers being released today. The U.S. government pumped $20.8 billion in procurement contracts here that fiscal year, a $4.6 billion jump from the year before.

Burlington, Vt. -- It's 5 o'clock in the evening, and the protesters are here. First two, then four. Eventually eight show up in front of the Unitarian Church on Pearl Street, even with the temperature dipping below freezing. Rush hour traffic, if you can call it that in this city of 39,000, rumbles past. A grandmother in a cherry-red coat clasps in her mittens a dog-eared poster with the word "peace" written in permanent marker. A Quaker couple huddling nearby wield two signs, one urging prayer for war hostages (and their captors)

A $6.6 billion combined aid package for Micronesia and the Marshall Islands won't keep pace with inflation during the next 20 years and will ultimately produce a substantial cut in the per capita aid to the two impoverished nations, a U.S. General Acounting Office official testified yesterday. Susan S. Westin, the GAO's managing director of international affairs and trade, told the House subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific that an analysis of the proposed aid packages negotiated with the two countries as part of a revised Compact of Free Association shows that even with the creation of trust funds, the countries will face substantial cuts.