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BALTIMORE (Map, News) - Residents in Guilford Gardens in Columbia could have access to computers and libraries in community rooms, under federal legislation.
“This funding is a federal investment in helping residents of Howard County’s community housing help themselves,” said Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., referring to a spending bill recently passed by the Senate Appropriations Committee that includes $400,000 for Howard’s affordable housing initiative.
“These resources will give users the tools they need to remain competitive and pursue new job opportunities,” Mikulski said. “I will continue to fight to make Howard County a priority in the federal checkbook.”
The funding would help pay for community rooms in affordable housing communities including Hilltop apartments and Tiber Hudson Senior Community, both in Ellicott City, said Stacy Spann, director of the county’s Department of Housing and Community Development.
The federal funding would pay for the design and construction of the community rooms as well as any equipment, according to Mikulski.
“First, Senator Mikulski did a tremendous job in pushing this to the forefront for us,” Spann said.
“Our aim is to equip these places with libraries and computers so they can access information but also have the opportunity to advance themselves.”
The bill next moves to the Senate floor for a vote, which hasn’t been scheduled.
The overall bill would provide the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development with $42.37 billion, about $3.9 billion higher than President Bush’s request, according to Mikulski.
Other initiatives in the bill would set aside funding to support shelters for homeless veterans and senior citizens, as well as low-income housing.
Mikulski is a member of the Senate Transportation, Housing and Urban Development appropriations subcommittee.
jkowalkowski@baltimoreexaminer.com
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Examiner Reader said:
These people are living in public housing because as children they never considered an education important, they have always been lowlife and on the public dole and they will continue to be lowlife and living off the taxpayers. Special computer rooms for this lowlife? No, we have enough public library branches throughout the county. Let the lowlife go there.
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Examiner Reader said:
The county already has a handful of libraries spread throughout so why do they need to spend money on these proposed computer rooms? Makes no sense to me.
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Examiner Reader said:
it is funny that babs is on the retirement committeee yet thge same stste that she is from tax retired people.
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Examiner Reader said:
i have to laugh at babs and the rest of the dems in this state. they claim we are so progressive yet this state does not have recall so we are stuck with these liars for 4 years. so they do all there dirty work in the first two years and spend the next two kissing up to get reelected. the corruption in this state is so bad yet the investigator for the state is controlled by politics and told who to go after. you know why shile dixon is getting it? she moved baltimore's slots from pimlico to downtown. she got mike miller mad. don't believe me just ask jack young. he got the gods in annapolis mad also. heck they could investigate any one of the polticians in this good ol boy state. we sure are a progressive state. the politicans make more in campaign funds and now want to use them to fund their defense whnen they get cought with their hand in the till.
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Examiner Reader said:
she is really funny. she has a state where people just vote for democrats in baltimore city and pg county. those individuals do not even know anything about what the person stands for yet she will get 90 percent of the african american vote. if you take that away she is in trouble getting reelected. nancy grasmick's test on us government is not working because maryland is still controled by one party. what is really bad is how much coruption goes on with the democrats in this state and yet they still elect them. just ask defrancis and miller. how about mike busch he is another clown and then omalley. please get people to get these crooks out.
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Examiner Reader said:
I just love "lifetime politicians" with their out-of-this world retirement benefits. To you folks out there in Dundalk and Sparrows Point, where was Ms.Mikulski when the General Motors plant was closed down? You don't hear too much about the Bethlehem Steel plant going down either. Never fear, Mr. "Dollars for O'Malley" O'Malley has the HOPE plan all inplace and food stamps ready for you labor folks.
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Jeff, an Independent said:
The little troll is passing the buck. I guess it's Bush's fault for the governor's out of control spending? Vote out the incumbents!
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Tax Free Marylander said:
She's got it sooo wrong! How can u blame our shortfalls on Bush? It wasn't Bush who flew planes into the world trade centers and the pentagon. You dems have such short memories! Where do you think we would be if it weren't for 9/11? I can strongly say my life would have been a h*ll of a lot different! Grow up and shut up! we do not need more taxes, we need less government! we need to kick the crap out of people like you and Mikulski, Ben Carden, Hillary etc! Stop taking my money for your socialist programs and force the weak the become responcible rather than remain parasites of your ridiculas failed programs!
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Examiner Reader said:
This is part of the problem with our Govt. Our government leaders publicly speak out against each other and the President. Some things are better left unsaid, meaning don't air your dirty laundry for everyone to know about. A good company "person" will show support of his company by not tale-telling and speaking criticisms to others and revealing internal struggles. The public needs to feel that the leaders of our government agree enough to see Americans through the rough times. When the government leaders speak publicly against their own, and their leadership it does two things, causes underlying fear in their constituents because of the disagreements, and lack of trust in their leader. We at some point and time want to see that our leaders are on the same page with resolving issues to give hope to provide "hope" to the American people.
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Examiner Reader said:
She is so right on many points. We are overspending on the war. Where are we getting the money? Blame "W" for your tax increase not the Dems. If we could get just one week of the average monies used to fund the war for education or to decrease crime in this country, we'd be better off.
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Examiner Reader said:
Wow. Listen to how a politician really talks. That's scary. Time for some fresh blood. No real person speaks like that.
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Examiner Reader said:
s he should go back to E. Baltimore and retire and enjoy the Government funded pension she will get but does not deserve. It is very un American to blast the President as she has done numerious times.
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Examiner Reader said:
Boy, has she got the talking points down pat. If the democrats want pork, (excuse me, earmarks) put in a pet projects bill instead of trying to hijack a budget. I especially like - democrats aren't overspending, Bush is underfunding. The President is working on keeping the economy in good shape - they sure aren't. They want the war and economy to fail, so they can use that for election talking points. Undermine the country, get more dems elected? NO! The libs prommised to do everything when they got majority. All they did was change leadership in both houses. Does she realize Congress has the lowest approval rating since time began? And ethics reform? Man, they got mrs bill clinton running for President- nice ethics reform. Interrogation? When terrorists abide by the Geneva Convention, then and only then should we. Man, I could go on for days.
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Examiner Reader said:
Barbara Mikulski is a disgrace. Everything she stands for is wrong. She enables jihad by supporting the “war is lost” left wing of her party including her public support for the phony soldier Jesse Macbeth. She enables crime by supporting the DREAM ACT, a government welfare incentive program that included sanctuary protection for illegal alien law-breakers. She enables the budget deficit by supporting every Government welfare bill even thought it’s not the Government’s job to “create jobs for Americans and provide a safety net for children and seniors.” Then she has the chutzpa to complain about war spending, which protects us all and is the primary job of Government.
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JAB said:
She is the worst Democrat for Maryland never seen a tax increase she did not like she is all talk no Action
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avid reader said:
As a democrat I am ashamed to say it anymore because of the poor performances of the Satae and federal delegates, congress people and senators. We are in ddeep trouble with these self centered people who as soon as they get elected forget who sent them there
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Examiner Reader said:
She sure is full of herself and her so called friends. She basically said it is bad that the Republicans are holding things up but when the Dems do it is okay. Has she been giving MOM lessons on being two faced.
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Examiner Reader said:
Barbara Mikulski broke all the rules of the constitution. Our founding fathers did not want people to make a career out of politics and she is so old and set in her ways, she should retire and move on. If she wants to help the people of Maryland, may she SIT O'MALLEY DOWN AND GIVE HIM A GOOD TALKING TO ABOUT HOW HE IS MESSING UP OUR STATE.
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avid reader said:
Bush and O'Malley are the two biggest losers that we have in America.
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