Witnesses Say Child Support Bill Would Help Students Complete High School

ANNAPOLIS – Twelve-year-old Brittanee wants to go to the prom one day, so her mom had to go to Annapolis

High-profile Opponents’ Absence Gives Hope to Gay Rights Advocates

ANNAPOLIS – Big-time opponents to Gov

Gay Rights Advocates Want Legislators’ Respect

ANNAPOLIS – Gay rights activists scheduled to testify today before the Maryland House Judiciary Committee are hoping for more respect than they got last year – especially since their bill is, once again, Gov

Legislators Debate Pay Day Loans, Again

ANNAPOLIS – Single, Baltimore mom Dayna Robertson is waiting for a knockout punch

Hearing Impaired Push for Office

ANNAPOLIS – More than 100 hearing impaired Maryland residents used sign language to send a loud message to Gov

Mothers Look to Legislature For Right to Breast-feed

ANNAPOLIS – When her 3-month-old son started screaming in hunger, a Riestertown mother recently sought out a bench in the front of an Owings Mills toy store to nurse

Poor Advocates Rally for Supplemental Budget

ANNAPOLIS – A car accident left Jerry Lynch of Rockville with a glass eye and no job

National Foundation Pushes for Gay Rights in Maryland

ANNAPOLIS – Gay rights legislation didn’t too well in Maryland in 1999

Safe Haven Won’t Save Babies, Some Say

ANNAPOLIS – Safe haven legislation, designed to save abandoned newborns, isn’t safe at all, said some adoption advocates in a General Assembly hearing this week

Bill to Ban Same-Sex Marriages Indicates Uphill Fight For Gay Rights Measure

ANNAPOLIS – One state legislator is so determined to prohibit same-sex marriages in Maryland that she proposed a bill this week that would only affect people from certain parts of Scandinavia