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Word has it Scrabble fundraiser is Saturday in Roland Park

2013-04-06 07:20:00

The word was tristeza. It's a disease of citrus trees, but more importantly, for Tobey Roland, it once scored 228 points for him in a game of Scrabble, he said. Roland, 52, of Mount Washington, loves Scrabble and estimates he has played in 120...

Maryland is free and growing

2013-04-04 11:30:00

A recent letter to The Sun reported that the Mercatus Center at George Mason University ranked Maryland near the bottom in overall freedom and cited a statistic that the state has lost population ("The 'Free State' isn't so free anymore," April 3)....

Baltimore residents' survey shows mixed results

2013-03-29 17:58:53

Baltimore residents are less satisfied with city services than they were last year, but see progress in the city's long-standing fight against violent crime and illegal drugs. Those are some of the mixed findings in the annual Baltimore Citizen Survey,...

Recession changed course of population growth in metro Baltimore

2013-03-23 15:26:00

Not too long ago, Carroll County faced a problem: Rapid growth had brought crowded classrooms to the northeastern part of the county, and planners expected many more homes to be built in the area. "At one point, they were 400 kids over capacity at North...

Baltimore's population up, following decades of loss

2013-03-14 00:00:00

Baltimore, coming off six decades of population decline, grew by 1,100 residents in 12 months, according to government estimates released Thursday. "It's such amazing news. … It's huge psychologically," said Seema D. Iyer, a former research chief...

Developers eager to convert downtown office buildings to residences

2012-12-07 15:58:00

Nearly 1,000 market-rate apartments would be added to downtown Baltimore in the next few years if three projects announced in recent days are completed. "It seems like it all came to fruition this week, but we've been working for a year, year and a half,...

Strong federal ties leave Md. vulnerable to sudden cuts

2012-11-04 02:20:00

Looming federal budget cuts make a whole lot of Marylanders nervous because a whole lot of Maryland depends on Uncle Sam for a paycheck — directly or indirectly. More than 300,000 Maryland residents work for the federal government, according to the...

Baltimore's poverty rate unchanged at 1 in 4 residents

2012-09-20 05:27:00

The poverty rate in Baltimore held steady last year with about 1 in 4 counted as impoverished by the U.S. Census Bureau — a situation that economists say reflects the fits and starts of the nation's economic recovery. After a jump of more than 4...

Census Bureau: Nation's poverty rate held steady last year

2012-09-12 11:02:00

After three years of increases, the nation's poverty rate held steady from 2010 to 2011, according to data released Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau that also detailed trends in health insurance coverage and median income. Nationwide, 15 percent of...

Data: Md. women earn 86 cents for every dollar paid to men

2012-09-20 14:27:00

Maryland women were paid 86 cents for every dollar paid to men in the state in 2011, according to an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by the National Partnership for Women & Families released Thursday. Last year, the median earnings for women in...

More Americans insured new Census data finds

2012-09-12 09:01:00

The U.S. Census Bureau released new data today that showed more people now have health insurance. The data looked at coverage from 2011. Here are highlights taken from a census bureau press release. - The number of people with health insurance...

Almost 13 percent of Marylanders uninsured

2012-08-29 12:26:00

Those who are poor, minorities and living on the Eastern Shore, Baltimore City or Prince George’s County are more likely to be uninsured, according to new data released by the U.S. Census Bureau Wednesday. The Small Area Health Insurance...

In his first State of the Union address, Lyndon Baines Johnson introduced legislation that would come to be known as the "War on Poverty." This legislation was proposed by Johnson in response to a national poverty rate around nineteen percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

2013-02-12 00:00:00

A Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry Co. Ltd. (ZPMC) ship delivers new container cranes to the Port of Long Beach in Long Beach, California, U.S., on Monday, July 9, 2012. The U.S. Census Bureau is scheduled to release trade balance data on July 11.

2012-07-10 13:49:00

, are at the top of the list of the nation's most-educated cities. The ranking takes into account the shares of the population 25 years of age and older with post-secondary degrees, weighted by the length of time often required to obtain those various degrees.

2011-08-31 15:24:58