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October 27, 2009
Hazardous waste collection set Sunday 3 Baltimore County is opening its Western Acceptance Facility in Halethorpe from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday for a one-day collection of household hazardous-waste items. County residents may bring lawn and swimming pool chemicals, paints, motor oil, antifreeze, gasoline, cleaning solvents, rechargeable batteries, medicines, mercury thermometers and thermostats, fluorescent light bulbs, fireworks and ammunition. No trash will be accepted at this collection.
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By Laura Smitherman | September 25, 2009
Maryland's attorney general called Thursday for additional hearings on Constellation Energy Group Inc.'s deal with a French utility, arguing the companies didn't release final terms of the transaction until after hearings concluded on Monday, defying "any notion of fairness." Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler's office asked the Public Service Commission to extend the schedule for the regulatory proceedings by two weeks. The PSC, which had planned to issue a ruling by mid-October, has been considering whether the $4.5 billion sale of nearly half of Constellation's nuclear power business to Electricite de France would hurt Constellation's regulated utility, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., and its customers.
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By Hanah Cho | June 18, 2009
The review of Constellation Energy Group's deal with a French utility began Wednesday with debate over the proceeding's schedule. The Maryland Public Service Commission, the state's top energy regulator, said it will hold hearings beginning Aug. 19 to determine whether Constellation's $4.5 billion deal to sell half of its nuclear power assets to Electricite de France is in the public's interest. The review comes after the PSC last week ordered the proceedings, which adds a regulatory hurdle for Constellation to complete the transaction by Sept.
NEWS
February 22, 2009
The board of education will hold public hearings for residents in the southern part of Anne Arundel County and the Mountain Road Corridor in Pasadena on proposed redistricting plans. Hearings are at 7 p.m. as follows: for south county, Wednesday Feb. 25 in the boardroom at the Parham Building, 2644 Riva Road, Annapolis; Mountain Road, March 11 at Northeast High School, 1121 Duvall Highway, Pasadena. Those wishing to testify on a plan must attend the hearing on that plan. Speakers will be limited to three minutes, and can sign up beginning at 6 p.m. the night of the hearing.
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By Tricia Bishop | August 4, 2008
State regulators will begin hearings today to determine whether an affiliate of Baltimore's Constellation Energy can build a third nuclear reactor at Calvert Cliffs in Lusby. The project, which could cost up to $9.6 billion, is among a handful of applications being considered as the nation's first new nuclear reactors in nearly 30 years. Government and energy company leaders are looking to the new plants to remedy energy shortage concerns across the country - beginning as early as 2011 in Maryland.
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By Karen Nitkin | May 25, 2008
Maria Datta, the mother of Dayton Oaks Elementary School fifth-grader Nikita Datta, had been working for weeks to help her daughter prepare for the Simulated Congressional Hearings held at the school. "It's an important program," she said. "It's good that they are learning about this in elementary school." She especially likes that visiting officials, such as state representatives and county school board members, serve as judges. That makes the hearings a big deal in the eyes of the students, she said.
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April 1, 2008
The Baltimore and state school boards will host four hearings in coming days to hear public comment on the city-state partnership governing public education in Baltimore. The 1997 legislation that created the partnership - under which the governor and the mayor jointly appoint the city school board - requires an evaluation of the arrangement every five years. The hearings are part of that evaluation. They will be held: Tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the school system's professional development center, 2500 E. Northern Parkway, and from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Edmondson-Westside High, 501 Athol Ave. Thursday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Polytechnic Institute, 1400 W. Cold Spring Lane.
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By Rick Maese | March 22, 2008
Farrah Hall's Olympic dream might have caught its second wind. The Annapolis windsurfer finished second at the RS:X team-selection trials in October after a jury's controversial decision to grant another competitor's appeal. After Hall won the regatta on the water, a jury ruled that Nancy Rios' race was affected by a tear in her sail and awarded the Miami windsurfer the trials' win. Only the first-place finisher is slated to represent the United States at the Summer Olympics. The jury initially declined to hear Hall's request for redress because it was filed too late.
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By BILL ORDINE | February 6, 2008
I'm impressed with Major League Baseball's ability to keep the game in front of the public all year long. The NFL pioneered that bit of marketing genius with stuff such as the NFL draft in April and then started filling in with the scouting combine in February and minicamps during the spring; all things that serve as teasers for the next season. Of course, baseball's primary way of accomplishing the same thing used to be the "hot stove league," offseason trade rumors and the like. But I think the new plan, the All-Star Congressional Steroid Hearings, is much more effective, much more dramatic.
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By PETER SCHMUCK | December 31, 2007
In my continuing effort to show how sophisticated I am, I'd like to quote the French poet Paul Valery: "The trouble with our times," he said, "is that the future is not what it used to be." Never mind that he uttered that cynical little gem several generations ago; no truer words have ever been spoken, particularly when 2007 is going to be such a tough act to follow. George Mitchell shocked the world when he discovered that baseball players have been using steroids. Michael Vick went to jail for his part in a dogfighting conspiracy.