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One small step for man, many retweets for mankind [Link Roundup]

"Thanks to his unabashed enthusiasm for the job and his way with a tweet, Cockeysville's Reid Wiseman is becoming quite the Twitterverse celebrity as he orbits the Earth on the International Space Station."

  • With out-of-this-world tweets, Cockeysville astronaut an online hit [Baltimore Sun] Thanks to his unabashed enthusiasm for the job and his way with a tweet, Cockeysville’s Reid Wiseman is becoming quite the Twitterverse celebrity as he orbits the Earth on the International Space Station.”
  • Letter to editor: Mayor’s ex-IT chief may have angered Comcast [Baltimore Business Journal] Like Jason Hardebeck, I was disappointed when Chris Tonjes resigned as head of the Mayor’s Office of Information Technology. Tonjes inherited a department that was largely staffed by contractors, and one of his priorities was changing out personnel to ensure that his team had the technical skills to support the office’s initiatives. For this, he was rewarded with a vague set of charges that appear unlikely to ever be investigated or resolved.”
  • Baltimore to open Latino economic development satellite office [Baltimore Sun“Baltimore will open a satellite office for its Latino Economic Development Center along Eastern Avenue in Highlandtown, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced Wednesday.”
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