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By Laura Smitherman | August 5, 2009
More than two weeks after Maryland Republicans met behind closed doors and voted to express "no confidence" in leader James Pelura, the state GOP chairman insists he's not going anywhere. And, he says, he has the votes to ensure that he isn't forced out. "I am not resigning," Pelura declared in an interview. While the executive committee, made up of 30 statewide and county officers, voted against Pelura during a July meeting, the only way to remove the party chairman is by a two-thirds' vote of the much larger state convention.
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By Ken Murray | August 22, 2008
The NFL Players Association is about to find out what it's like to go into high-stakes negotiations without Gene Upshaw. Upshaw carried the union fight for 25 years as its strong-willed executive director, participating in collective bargaining negotiations as far back as 1977. His death, from pancreatic cancer Wednesday, went shock waves through the NFL and left a leadership void in the union. "The new guy will have to do what he can, but he can't be Gene Upshaw," said Stan White, a former Baltimore Colt and long-time union activist.
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By Kelly Brewington | February 22, 2008
The NAACP's national board is poised to select a new president and CEO. But a rift among members threatens to shake up the plans, as some complain they have been shut out of the process to choose a new leader for the Baltimore-based civil rights organization. Calling itself the "Leadership of Conscience," a group of about a dozen NAACP board members expressed its objections at the board's annual meeting in New York last weekend. During board elections, the group waged an unsuccessful effort to unseat Chairman Julian Bond.
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October 31, 2007
Restaurant group chooses Kreuzburg Paula Kreuzburg has been named interim president by the executive committee of the Restaurant Association of Maryland's board of directors. An adviser to former President and Chief Executive Officer Marcia S. Harris, who died recently, Kreuzburg has been a member of the association's staff since 1997. She served as chairman of its board of directors in 1993 and 1994 while managing her family's restaurant, Mrs. K's Toll House, in Silver Spring. A search committee has been formed, and a national search firm will assist the committee in evaluating candidates to fill the position.
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By Nia-Malika Henderson | August 1, 2007
Members of the Anne Arundel County chapter of the NAACP moved closer to ousting the group's leader last night, circulating a petition at the monthly meeting asking for his resignation. Already faced with a no-confidence vote by the chapter's executive committee, Wayne Jearld, in office since January, has previously vowed to hang on to the post for the rest of his two-year term. In a letter drafted last week, members of the executive committee listed more than a dozen examples of Jearld pointedly criticizing board members and other community leaders.
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By GADI DECHTER | July 25, 2006
The president and chief executive officer of Associated Black Charities has quit after being threatened with firing, just 18 months since he took over the leadership at the Baltimore-based social services agency, according to internal memos. Gary Officer resigned July 13, said board Chairman Nathaniel E. Jones Jr., who insisted yesterday that Officer "was not asked to resign" and that the departure was voluntary. But documents obtained by The Sun reveal that Jones demanded Officer either quit or face a termination vote by the full board of directors.
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By Pat O'Malley | September 3, 2004
Malcolm Delaney, who has transferred from McDonogh to Towson Catholic, has received a waiver from the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association, making him eligible to play basketball this season. Delaney, who started in the sport as a freshman at McDonogh last winter and also played football, received the waiver from the MIAA's executive committee after his appeal was heard Wednesday night. MIAA rules stipulate that a student-athlete who transfers within the 28 private high schools that constitute the association, as Delaney did, must sit out sports for one year unless he receives an exemption.
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By NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE | October 29, 2003
Two nationally known members of Boston University's board of trustees have resigned amid the crisis gripping the university over whether Daniel S. Goldin will be allowed to take the president's office. Kenneth Feld, owner of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and Jeffrey Katzenberg, a founder of the Hollywood studio DreamWorks SKG, both resigned last week, BU confirmed yesterday. The two were among the highest-profile members of the board and represented some of its deepest pockets.
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By Greg Garland | September 14, 2003
The Maryland Republican Party's executive committee voted yesterday to sever ties with a Hispanic group headed by Jorge Ribas, a Montgomery County veterinarian who had rankled party leaders with his criticism that the Ehrlich administration had failed to name enough Hispanics to high-level positions. Eric M. Sutton, executive director of the Maryland Republican Party, said committee members voted unanimously to back a rival Hispanic Republican organization that is to be headed on an interim basis by Luis Borunda, a Baltimore County sign company owner.
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By NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE | July 8, 2003
The board of the Ford Foundation, one of the country's largest private charitable foundations, has decided to keep its chairman despite allegations by federal regulators that he participated in an accounting fraud when he was chairman and chief executive of Xerox Corp. The decision came after the chairman, Paul A. Allaire, agreed to pay a $1 million penalty and forfeit $7.6 million in bonus pay and gains made on stock sales at Xerox and interest on those sums. He was also barred from serving as a director of a public corporation for five years as part of the settlement reached last month with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which said he and five other Xerox executives allowed the company to overstate its profits by $1.4 billion over four years.