US State News
May 2, 2012
ELLICOTT CITY, Md., May 2 -- Howard County issued the following news:
Howard County Executive Ken Ulman today announced that Howard County Government and People Acting Together in Howard (PATH) have joined forces to create a new partnership to address two growing community concerns - youth employment and stormwater pollution.
Let’s slip into our Louis Vuitton shoes and take a gilded stroll through Manhattan. We begin downtown, where Goldman Sachs, that exemplar of 0.001 percent America, reaps a multimillion-dollar tax break for its office tower, a deal accompanied by a multimillion-dollar landscaping clause. (You expectedLloyd C. Blankfein to yank weeds, maybe?)
WASHINGTON — Like manna from heaven, thousands of dollars in new revenue is raining on a group of congregations here from the unlikeliest of sources: the utility bill.
The Washington Interfaith Network, a collection of religious institutions, is preparing to confront local businesses in an effort to secure more jobs and housing for District residents.
As far as the District’s local political spectacle goes, it’s awful hard to beat a Washington Interfaith Network “action.”
When Shehlla Khan's husband became ill, it fell on her to take their three children to the pool. But for Khan, who is Muslim, the task was difficult.
Members from more than 40 religious institutions across Northern Virginia are asking some of the country’s largest banks to commit to helping rebuild neighborhoods that have been devastated by housing foreclosures.
Action In Montgomery 
8900 Georgia Ave
Silver Springs, MD 20910
301-588-0330
