^Md. Pharmacy Inspections Lag; Board Blames Bureaucracy, Lack of Funds

WASHINGTON – Less than half of Maryland’s pharmacies were inspected in the past two years, and just a third in the past year, a situation that health care advocates say puts the public at risk of getting outdated or improper medication

^Pharmacy Board Asks for More Control to Beef Up Inspections

WASHINGTON – After nearly two-thirds of the state’s pharmacies went without required annual inspections last year, the Maryland Board of Pharmacy is hoping to change what some argue is a broken regulatory system

^Volunteers Converge on Baltimore ‘Toy Shop’ For a Slice of Christmas Spirit

BALTIMORE – Ronnie and John Turner haven’t lived a luxurious life, struggling on John’s small salary as a steel mechanic to raise their seven children

State’s Uncertified Teachers Show More Experience

WASHINGTON – Amy Gorman had no teaching experience and no teaching certificate when she was put in charge of a 12th-grade English class in Prince George’s County last winter

Senate Campaign’s Last Days Worth $1 Million

WASHINGTON – Maryland’s top two U

^Dems Could Change State Immigration Policy

WASHINGTON – Advocates for illegal immigrants are optimistic that immigration law will favor them now that a Democrat is in the governor’s office with a compatible General Assembly

CNS – Land Conservation,500

ANNAPOLIS- Environmental leaders joined forces Tuesday to demand that Gov

Van Hollen Wins Coveted Ways and Means Seat

WASHINGTON – Rep

Medicare Plan Provides Boost for Chronically Ill Patients

WASHINGTON – Rufus “Lee” Arrington’s mailbox used to be full of solicitations from Medicare health plans promising benefits that always seemed too good to be true

Cummings, Others Call for Solutions to Poverty

WASHINGTON – Black and poverty are too often synonymous, and the nation needs an agenda of new policies to defeat poverty for everyone, said the participants at the Poverty, Race and Policy Forum organized by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Wednesday