Category: Federal Gov't

Baltimore Sun
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff today unveiled a new checkpoint screening system being tested at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport and announced other measures to make the process of providing identification at check-in less hectic for travelers.

The $2.1 …

AP
Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski has a message for the women of America. “Put your lipstick on, square your shoulders, suit up” and get ready to fight.

That call to “revolution” came minutes after the GOP killed legislation that would have …

Baltimore Sun
In a speech before more than 1,000 law students and attorneys at Baltimore’s Lyric Opera House yesterday, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia set out to dispel the notion that his judicial philosophy always leads him to ultra-conservative …

WBAL.com
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a class action lawsuit on Monday against McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurant Inc., alleging race discrimination against black applicants and employees at its two Baltimore restaurants.

The E-E-O-C alleges that the restaurant’s management …

Capital News Service
All but one of Maryland’s members of Congress rank in the top half of congressional earmark spenders, with Rep. Steny Hoyer coming in fifth in the House, a consumer watchdog group reported Wednesday.

Citizens Against Government Waste’s new …

Rep. Albert Wynn, who was defeated in the Democratic primary by Donna Edwards, is resigning from Congress to take a job in a D.C. law firm. Wynn’s move will probably force a special election, with all the cost …

Baltimore Sun
Some of the first Fort Monmouth, N.J., employees to be transferred to a Maryland installation, taking over the fort’s responsibilities, are scheduled to move this summer.

The Press of Atlantic City reported that by Friday, 221 Fort Monmouth workers …

Examiner
A Virginia company won a $370 million contract to build the new home of defense information at Fort Meade.

“The contract award is the first tangible step in the Base Realignment and Closure transformation at Fort Meade,” Army Col. Kenneth …

Baltimore Sun
A federal judge in Baltimore substantially reduced yesterday the amount of damages a Kansas-based anti-gay group and three of its leading members must pay for their protest at a Marine’s funeral in Westminster.

In a 52-page decision, U.S. District …

Siobhan Gorman continues her excellent coverage of the National Security Agency with a story in yesterday’s Baltimore Sun discussing continuing problems with the power supply at NSA headquarters at Fort Meade. The problems with electricity …