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		<title>HEALTH: Areas with higher rates of gun ownership have higher rates of suicide</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 17:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Firearms suicides tend to be very compulsive acts,” according to the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research. That may explain why areas with more firearms have higher suicide rates.]]></description>
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		<title>HEALTH: O&#8217;Malley wants to expand funding for school breakfast program</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 17:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“There’s no such thing as a spare Marylander, a spare American, a spare child,” O’Malley said. “Our children deserve the ability to grow.”]]></description>
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		<title>ENVIRONMENT: Offshore wind passes in Md. Senate, Gov. O’Malley’s signature next</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 16:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“It’s about a better Maryland for tomorrow,” said Sen. James Mathias Jr., D-Worcester, the former mayor of Ocean City, who changed his vote to support the bill.]]></description>
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		<title>Education Secretary visits Rolling Terrace Elementary on heels of sequester</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maryland anticipates the main sequester cuts will be to child care subsidy programs and Head Start programs, according to Rolf Grafwallner at the Maryland State Department of Education.]]></description>
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		<title>Latino gala to award scholarships</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Applications are open to Hispanic students, including those who meet the qualifications for the Maryland Dream Act—a 2012 law granting in-state tuition at four-year universities to undocumented college students who first complete 60 credits or earn an associate’s degree at community college.]]></description>
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		<title>VIDEO: Snowsquester or much-needed break?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forecasters are predicting the biggest snowfall to hit the area in two years and folks are puzzled, skeptical, and excited.]]></description>
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		<title>VIDEO: Lawmakers look to fix the faulty tix, or nix the speed pix</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Members of a Maryland House committee hear arguments on a number of bills seeking to limit and, in some cases, eliminate, the use of speed cameras around the state.]]></description>
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		<title>Mizeur considers run for governor’s mansion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 21:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BY DAVID GUTMAN, CAPITAL NEWS SERVICE TAKOMA PARK – She’s a progressive state delegate who has partnered on legislation with a Tea Party Republican. She used to work as a registered federal lobbyist. And she co-owns an organic medicinal herb ...]]></description>
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		<title>Backers gird for Purple Line funding battle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By CHRIS LEYDEN, CNS GREENBELT &#8212; Prince George’s County, state and local officials called for Purple Line funding Thursday, saying the county is ready to make the rail line a reality once it finds a way to pay the hefty ...]]></description>
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		<title>ENVIRONMENT: Climate Change Threatens Fall Colors</title>
		<link>http://tpssvoice.com/2012/10/23/environment-climate-change-threatens-fall-colors/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=environment-climate-change-threatens-fall-colors</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ENVIRONMENT • BY AISHA AZHAR, CNS COLLEGE PARK &#8212; Fall colors are arriving later and are fading more quickly because of climate change, according to researchers. The climate-driven changes are already visible in some forests in New England. Scientists worry ...]]></description>
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		<title>EYE ON ANNAPOLIS: Takoma Park&#8217;s Franchot for governor?</title>
		<link>http://tpssvoice.com/2012/10/22/eye-on-annapolis-takoma-parks-franchot-for-governor/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=eye-on-annapolis-takoma-parks-franchot-for-governor</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EYE ON ANNAPOLIS • By JULIE BAUGHMAN, CNS; ANNAPOLIS – Comptroller Peter Franchot, resident of Takoma Park, prides himself in being what he calls, &#8220;a fiscally responsible, progressive Democrat.&#8221; This trait will give him an edge if he decides to ...]]></description>
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		<title>ECONOMY: In Silver Spring, immigrant looks for work, struggles without health insurance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 03:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blanca Oliva looks for work constantly, but she faces several barriers. She does not know how to use the Internet, so she walks the streets of Silver Spring and Langley Park, looking for job openings. She is older and thinks this makes her less appealing to employers, as they always ask her age in interviews, she said. She speaks poor English and had only six formal years of schooling in El Salvador.]]></description>
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		<title>HEALTH: Feds target Maryland buyers of raw milk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 02:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HEALTH • BY JOSH COOPER, CNS Scroll to bottom to see interactive map. Some Maryland residents see drinking raw milk as a normal part of a healthy diet. The federal government, however, does not. The feds have cut off a ...]]></description>
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		<title>ENERGY: Renewables vs. drilling — Md. debate mirrors national fight</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 02:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ENERGY • ELLEN STODOLA, CNS Republicans and Democrats are at odds in the General Assembly over whether Maryland should pursue offshore wind or natural gas fracking as a way to improve the state&#8217;s energy output. Neither option has been approved, ...]]></description>
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		<title>EYE ON ANNAPOLIS: General Assembly wrap 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EYE ON ANNAPOLIS • CAPITAL NEWS SERVICE STAFF The 2012 General Assembly session closed without an agreement between the House of Delegates and the Senate on an operating budget for the state. Many other bills passed or failed during the ...]]></description>
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		<title>TRANSPORTATION: Gov. O&#8217;Malley says gas tax would address safety, congestion concerns</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TRANSPORTATION • BY MALI KRANTZ, CNS Gov. Martin O&#8217;Malley defended his proposed six percent sales tax on gasoline before House and Senate committees Wednesday, saying Maryland needs to address crumbling transportation infrastructure and crippling traffic congestion. &#8220;As a state, we ...]]></description>
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		<title>IMMIGRATION: For Germantown student, a dream deferred</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IMMIGRATION • BY MALI KRANTZ One morning last week, Jorge Steven Acuna, a 19-year-old aspiring surgeon, was preparing for another day of school at Montgomery College in Germantown. Moments later, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officers swarmed Acuna&#8217;s quiet Germantown home, ...]]></description>
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		<title>EDUCATION: Maryland&#8217;s best teachers say profession must improve from &#8216;inside out&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EDUCATION • BY ROB BOCK, CNS In a roundtable discussion today at the U.S. Department of Education, Maryland&#8217;s best teachers evaluated and discussed innovative ways to recruit, prepare, support, retain and reward teachers. Twenty-two of Maryland&#8217;s 24 2012 Teachers of ...]]></description>
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		<title>MARYLAND: Metropolitan sprawl puts urban in suburban</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARYLAND • BY MARK MILLER, CNS When the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area logged a population increase last decade, the most dramatic changes came in outlying counties like Charles and Frederick counties &#8212; and county leaders said they know why. In ...]]></description>
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		<title>TEENS: Md. girls incarcerated at higher rates than boys for lesser offenses</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TEENS: BY KELSEY MILLER, CNS Of the 279 female youth committed to residential treatment centers in Maryland in 2010, approximately 80 percent were accused of nothing more serious than a misdemeanor, statistics from the Department of Juvenile Services show. For ...]]></description>
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