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BBB looks to regain trust with relaunch of Southland branch
The Better Business Bureau wants you to know that it's cleaned up its act in Los Angeles. The organization reached out to me this week to say that a new operation is up and running after the old BBB of the Southland was expelled in March after years...
Tags: Cardiologists, Insurance, Sales, Allianz AG Holding, High Blood Pressure
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Only an incompetent government would resort to a tactic like the sequester
The government's handling of the sequester is a perfect example of how inept it is ("Lawmakers ease airline delays," April 27). A business would lay off employees who are not essential to its operations. The government lays off the air traffic...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Pikesville
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Md. airport towers appear safe from federal cuts
Five air traffic control towers in Maryland that had been scheduled to shut down in June as a result of federal budget cuts are now expected to remain open, lawmakers said Wednesday — easing fears that the closures could back up flights at BWI...Tags: Salisbury (Wicomico, Maryland), Budget Control Act of 2011, Unemployment, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Baltimore County
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Congress passes bill to reduce flight delays; Obama will sign it
WASHINGTON -- Seeking to end flight delays that jammed airports nationwide, the House approved legislation Friday that will stop the furlough of air-traffic controllers, sending the bill to President Obama. Final passage of the quickly arranged...Tags: U.S. Congress, Federal Aviation Administration, Tom Latham, Politics, Steny Hoyer
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A presidential bystander
WASHINGTON -- It's never a good sign for a president when he feels compelled to assure the public he still has a pulse. This is the unenviable position President Obama was in Tuesday morning when he held a news conference in the White House briefing...
Tags: Budget Control Act of 2011, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, U.S. Senate, Mark Twain, Washington, DC
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Congress works when laws affect lawmakers
It seems sequestration began as a political game of chicken between President Obama and Congress in which going over the "cliff" had already been removed as a potential consequence. Both the president and Congress were certain the other would blink,...Tags: U.S. Congress, Federal Aviation Administration, Budget Control Act of 2011, Air Transportation Industry, Politics
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2 Daily Flights Serving Sitka Canceled for Runway Work
Channel 2 NewsRunway work in Sitka has resulted in the month-long cancellation of two of Alaska Airlines' daily flights serving Sitka. The Daily Sitka Sentinel reports the canceled flights are Flight 70, which typically arrives around 11 p.m., and Flight 73, which... -
Congress flies blind
What does it require to get members of Congress to take action quickly and decisively on an issue of federal spending? Now we know. The possibility that they will be delayed in an airport terminal somewhere waiting for a flight out of town is apparently...
Tags: Budget Control Act of 2011, Health Treatments, Unemployment, Elections, Steny Hoyer
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Furloughs over, so air controllers (and flights) back on schedule
A week after federal officials launched job furloughs at air traffic control towers, the controllers are back on a regular work schedule -- and airline delays are now caused primarily by severe weather. The number of delays over the week averaged...Tags: Transportation Security Administration, Federal Aviation Administration, Air Transportation Industry, Unemployment, O'Hare International Airport
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Air traffic controllers' furloughs end
The furloughed air traffic controllers are back at work, and now the nation's airlines can blame only bad weather for delays in getting you to your destination. The furloughs that began about a week ago — delaying hundreds of planes across the...
Tags: Orlando, Budget Control Act of 2011, Unemployment, O'Hare International Airport, Travel
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Pre-K funding is delivered another blow
States are spending less on pre-kindergarten programs than they did a decade ago, according to a report released Monday. The National Institute for Early Education Research released the State of Preschool 2012 report, calling the last school year...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Education, Preschools, Schools, Barack Obama
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Shuster raps handling of spending cuts in weekly GOP address
U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., delivered the Republican weekly address Saturday. Shuster represents the Ninth Congressional District, which includes Franklin and Fulton counties. “This week, many Americans had their flights delayed or canceled...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Federal Aviation Administration, Budget Control Act of 2011, Air Transportation Industry, Politics
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