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Baltimore Police and Fire pensions to skyrocket because increases are tied to the stockmarket

Sun, 10/18/2009 - 7:54pm — Joshfulton.blogspot

I look at it this way, if they ever bring back "The Wire," this could make for some interesting plot lines:

An unusual pension benefit for police and firefighters could cost Baltimore $164.9 million next year, nearly double what the city is now paying and a figure that the city's finance director says taxpayers cannot afford.

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Action Alert: Single payer study group in Baltimore

Sat, 04/04/2009 - 2:05pm — DCblogger

Baltimore Non-violence Center

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Action Alert: Maryland Single Payer

Fri, 10/31/2008 - 7:40pm — DCblogger

Baltimore Nonviolence Center

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Today's National Day of Action Post: Baltimore

Wed, 06/04/2008 - 9:13am — DCblogger

National Demonstrations against health insurance company denials and rejections of patients

Demonstrations will be held in front of the largest and wealthiest multi-billion dollar companies exposing and indicting their practices that have, so long, kept us from having a national health insurance plan with equality for all in this nation with no financial barriers to care.

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Baltimore belongs to Fascists

Tue, 05/29/2007 - 11:49am — Xenophon

Caught this one at Max’s new site. Baltimore has gone over to the fascists. Read more…

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21:03:43 lambert Thanks, Jeff.
18:16:03 Jeff W lambert, I wrote to NOW about that Elizabeth Warren video not playing and got a response of sorts back, which I sent to you as a private PM. Just FYI.
02:28:28 hipparchia the first thing they told us my volunteer training: humans are natural born rescuers.
00:18:34 lambert One more study... [url]
23:57:37 lambert Joe Bageant is god. [url]
01:00:54 lambert The actuary was a whistleblower under Bush, too. [url]
00:47:48 hipparchia that's ok, jason stands ready to help smear the actuary quoted in that wapo article [url]
23:16:16 lambert Elders under the bus on Medicare, naturally. [url]
20:11:01 lambert 19:49:09 +100
20:10:18 lambert Capitalism in a world where we will throw as many taxpayers under the bus as necessary....
19:49:09 hipparchia elizabeth warren for president!
02:24:14 Jeff W Elizabeth Warren on the economy on PBS's NOW: you can watch it online here: [url] "If [Congress] gets it wrong, the country we knew is gone."
17:52:53 Davidson So, of course they're not going to show the truth about boxing her in from the beginning.
17:51:57 Davidson Yeah, that was just a comment in general, like, "Not even the RBC decision warranted scrutiny."
15:38:02 lambert That's not the RBC meeting, though. That's the smoking gun, beyond "Smart politics" (Wolfson).
14:17:16 Davidson Notice how everyone still avoids exposing the RBC decision
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02:05:14 Jeff W lambert, your "especially with Obama's youthful base" link here [url] is broken. :(