County workers push for raises as 400 exceed 50k
Frederick County officials eye fiscal 1998 salary increases amid a trend of 400 plus employees earning over 50 000 annually. County government aims to balance budgets while contemplating merit pay, following past half step and 1 percent COLA adjustments. Commissioner Ilona Hogan advocates a shift toward merit raises, acknowledging the change would take time.
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Frederick Community College
Frederick County
Maryland Office of Business and Economic Development
Mitch Hose
Ilona Hogan
Frederick payroll shows top earners and countywide figures
FCC President Lee Betts tops the payroll at 96 972 and 00 in the list of Frederick County employees earning over 50 000 a year. The report compares salary ranges with Board of Education and county budgets while noting 54 of 1363 full time workers exceed 50 000. Mayor Jim Grimes faces a 10 million gap in FY 1997 98 budget requests with plans for 11 500 in raises for three city staff earning over 50 000. Planning director James Schmersahl seeks a 5 700 raise.
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FCC
Lee Betts
Jack Dale
Marquis Blum
David Markoe
Elzabeth Morgan
Jon Larson
James Shaw
Infor
Carl Moore
Public Works
Robert Hayes
FCPS
Patrcia Custer
Board of Education
Terre Roy Rhoderick
Frederick
Jim Grimes
Mr Grimes
James Schmersah
Medicare Social Security solvency tops postbudget agenda
Washington insiders say the next big task after the balanced budget deal is stabilizing Medicare and Social Security. Officials from the White House and Congress urge a bipartisan process to reform entitlement programs as baby boomers head toward retirement amid long term funding gaps.
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Washington
White House
Franklin Raines
CBS
NBC
Meet the Press
Erskine Bowles
House Budget Committee
John Kasich
Ohio
ABC
Congress
Medicare
Social Security
Treasury
Robert Rubin
Dan Burton
R-Ind
House
CIA set drugs in U S says NAACP speaker
Washington talk show host Joe Madison told NAACP members the CIA allowed drugs into the United States and believed cocaine would target the black community. At the Freedom Fund Banquet he urged a boycotts and warned of consequences for cranberry and turkey sales. He cited the San Jose Mercury News and noted arrests at CIA headquarters with charges later dropped.
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Washington
Joe Madison
CIA
United States
NAACP
Freedom Fund
Holiday Inn
Fsk Mall
Madison
CLA
Naacp National Board of Directors
San Jose
Mercury News
Dick Gregory
Brosius regains dream at Lake Linganore board election
Wilam Brosius was elected to the Lake Singapore Association board of directors along with Karen Frazier David Hartman and David Hodges in unopposed two year terms. He aims to restore the community principles of the Lake Singanore development started in 1968, halted by a 1973 financial crisis.
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New Market
Wilam Brosius
Lake Linganore
Brosius
Lake Singapore Association Board of Directors
Karen Frazier
David Hartman
David Hodges
Broswus
Louis
Lake Singanore
Bross
Fire destroys A-frame house in Emmitsburg
A cedar A-frame home on Hornet's Nest Road in Emmitsburg was destroyed by a fire just after 12:25 am on Saturday. Fire Marshal W Faron Taylor cited a clothes washer in the basement as the cause, with $300,000 damage and the loss of several pets. The homeowners Amy Lynn Bowers and Michael D'Ambrosia escaped. D'Ambrosia tried to fight the blaze with a garden hose while Bowers alerted neighbors. Firefighters from multiple departments battled the flames as the house burned beyond repair. The couple was briefly treated at Frederick Memorial Hospital as a precaution and released.
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Emmitsburg
Hornet's Nest Road
Maryland
W Faron Taylor
Taylor
Amy Lynn Bowers
Michael D’ambrosia
D'Ambrosia
Ms Bowers
Ted
Thurmont
Rocky Ruige Levista
Adams
D’ambrava Ari
Fredence Merc
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