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Rep. Frank Kratovil (D-1st) has spent nearly $83,000 in taxpayer money to send out newsletter mailings to constituents this year, at per household costs of 24-cents, according to a Cecil Times search of voluminous Clerk of the House documents. It is a perfectly legal, and even routine, expenditure by sitting House members but...
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Cecil County women are better educated than men in the county but they earn significantly less money from their jobs than less-educated men, according to new three-year data issued this week by the U.S. Census Bureau. The discrepancies in income are not easily explained by the cliched notions that women work part-time,...
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The new U.S. Census Bureau “American Community Survey” finds that in 2008, 11.1 percent of Cecil County residents were age 65 or over. But longer term state projections estimate the senior population will more than double and reach about 15.3 percent of the county’s overall population by 2030. Cecil County needs to start planning now for the...
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The just released interim U.S. Census estimated data, under the “American Community Survey” for 2008, provides a snapshot of just how Cecil County fares in comparison with the rest of the state in many areas, from income to education levels to senior citizen population to workers’ commuting distances. This is a treasure...
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