Friday, November 2, 2012
Del. Pat McDonough urges voters to vote no on Question 4.
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Friday, November 2, 2012
The burden on the citizen taxpayer will never stop if the so-called Maryland Dream Act is allowed to become law. Let us put aside emotional misinformation and whip out our calculators. One illegal alien student completing a four-year college program will cost the taxpayers up to $42,000. It breaks down to an $8,000 tuition discount for two years of community college and a $32,000 discount for two years at the University of Maryland. The advocates for the Dream Act claim that only one percent of the student body statewide will be illegal aliens. That translates into 1,500 Dream Act students per year, costing the taxpayers $63,000 annually. When all four classes are established and in place, taxpayers will be compelled to pay $228 million a …
Thursday, May 24, 2012
A Reisterstown Patch reader thanks Patch and offers information for veterans looking for jobs.
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Dear Mr. Shapiro, Please allow me to introduce myself. As Deputy Under Secretary for Economic Opportunity at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), I have responsibility for VA’s education (GI bill), vocational rehabilitation and employment and guaranteed home loan programs. Additionally, my office assists in coordinating many veteran employment efforts and works collectively with the Department of Labor (DOL) and other federal agencies to promote and impact nationwide veteran employment. I came across the Reisterstown Patch article entitled “Help Wanted? Hire a Vet” and I would like to personally thank you for the valuable service your newspaper is providing to this deserving group of individuals. There is a new benefit called the …
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
A Hanover resident writes that a proposal for a freight transfer facility is a grave issue that didn’t get its due in a Patch story on resident activism in the region.
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Dear Patch: I would like to relate my concerns about the recent Patch article, “Us Against Them: NIMBY Fights Get Us Going.” As a resident of Hanover/Elkridge and someone who supports our community’s efforts to stop MDOT and CSX from building an intermodal freight yard literally in our backyards, I respectfully suggest that there is a serious mismatch of importance and impact between, on the one hand, our battle against a huge, noisy, dirty, polluting railroad freight yard and, on the other hand, a walking path and a water tower. I think I can say with confidence that the residents of Hanover/Elkridge would willingly exchange the intermodal site for both a walking path and a water tower! The idea that these two things are on the same …
Baltimore Matt
3:09 pm on Thursday, May 2, 2013
Here is an idea...why can't we only give instate tuition to students who are from countries that are will to have a reciprocating agreement. If Mexico or Brazil or Russia or anywhere else agrees to give US citizens who are illegally in their country the same break they give their citizens for attending their universities then we can give their citizens a break of on tuition as well. more ›