Outside View: As Federal Reserve meets, folks should trim spending
Source: United Press International
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-06-17 23:07:57 -0700 | business-news
The Federal Reserve is expected Wednesday to indicate when and how quickly it will pull back from its easy money policies. Americans can expect mortgage rates to climb, selling homes to get tougher and interest rates to increase on credit...
Outside View: Banks cooking up another financial crisis
Source: United Press International
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-06-16 21:23:59 -0700 | business-news
Wall Street is cooking up another crisis -- making shoddy loans and selling worthless securities to investors hungry for higher yields than certificates of deposit and government bonds offer. Dodd-Frank banking reforms imposed very costly regulations on mortgage and commercial...
Wing Jared Nickens commits to Terps
Source: Baltimore Sun
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-06-16 14:04:44 -0700 | sports-news
Jared Nickens commits to Maryland, giving Terps another shooter Maryland men's basketball coach Mark Turgeon believes that you can never have enough shooters. That philosophy was proven again Sunday, when rising senior wing Jared Nickens verbally committed to the Terps...
Familiar forecast: dry, sizzling summer
Source: The Hutchinson News
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-06-15 14:54:10 -0700 | technology-news
And though there may be a noticeable dip in temperatures over the coming week, long-term forecasts advise to expect above normal temperatures and below normal precipitation for much of Kansas over the next three months. Western Kansas and Colorado will...
A patch of green brightens Broadway East
Source: Baltimore Sun
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-06-14 14:11:25 -0700 | political-news
Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun A new urban park is bringing a patch of green to a once-blighted corner of Broadway East, a project organizers hope can be a model for improving the quality of life and reducing pollution in other...
Supreme Court archive has about 14K hours of audio
Source: Virginian-Pilot Online
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-06-14 00:54:07 -0700 | political-news
Powell's Tidewater Virginia drawl could make the word "court" sound as if it had two syllables. And Justice Clarence Thomas, though he doesn't talk much, speaks in a deep baritone. The voices of those justices and 30 others, as well...
Outside View: Edward Snowden appears more public servant than criminal
Source: United Press International
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-06-13 21:15:10 -0700 | disasters-news
The revelation that the National Security Agency is tracking every phone call each American makes and broadly mining Internet data puts U.S. President Barack Obama at the center of yet another controversy. He and supporters in the Republican congressional leadership,...
Catonsville High music teacher retiring after 40 years
Source: Baltimore Sun
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-06-13 14:45:07 -0700 | entertainment-news
A Towson resident and Catonsville High graduate, Wharton departs having served 24 years as the school's music department chair. He's been eligible for retirement for the past eight years, but he has remained, stirred by an energy and enthusiasm to...
Xin Liu: Suspect in College Park slaying ordered held without bond
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-06-13 07:34:41 -0700 | political-news
Liu said nothing during the proceeding as his attorney John Musca defended his client, saying he just completed a pre-med college program and has never before been arrested. But Judge Jerry Brewer insisted Liu is a flight risk because he...
IKEA plans midsummer buffet in stores Friday
Source: Baltimore Sun
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-06-13 04:43:31 -0700 | business-news
Friday, features a smorgasbord with what is probably one of the longest menus of the year...Midsummer is an important Swedish summer holiday, the retailer says, and Friday's buffet menu will reflect that. Besides meatballs with lingonberries, customers will find herring,...
Outside View: President Obama continues to fail as CEO
Source: United Press International
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-06-11 21:31:40 -0700 | political-news
President Barack Obama speaks at The White House in Washington on June 10, 2013...President Barack Obama is failing as chief executive officer of the U.S. government. His appointment of Susan Rice to be his top national security adviser and other...
Macklemore to host Summer Jam, performances by T.I., Trey Songz and 2 Chainz
Source: Seattle Times
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-06-07 17:11:52 -0700 | entertainment-news
A blog for Seattle music lovers of all stripes, from hip-hop and indie rock to jazz and world music...Banner.) After their victory-lap performance at Sasquatch! two weeks ago, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis are already headed back to the Columbia River...
Terps Trio: Hoops players with most to gain/lose and more
Source: Baltimore Sun
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-06-07 09:49:16 -0700 | sports-news
Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports. With Mark Turgeon's team starting summer workouts, which Terps have the most to gain...
Outside View: Economy adds 175,000 jobs in May but trouble ahead
Source: United Press International
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-06-07 07:58:39 -0700 | business-news
Labor Department announced Friday the U.S. economy added 175,000 jobs in May but that is hardly the 360,000 jobs needed each month to bring unemployment down to 6 percent over the next three years...Adding in discouraged adults and part-timers who...
Charges reduced against shuttle driver in wreck near airport
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constution
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-06-06 15:35:41 -0700 | political-news
Thursday, June 6, 2013 Sponsored Links The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The bus driver involved in the airport-area wreck that injured 17 people won't be charged with felonies, Fulton County Jail officials said. An arrest warrant was filed earlier this week for...
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