ANNAPOLIS – A new law that will provide medical insurance for 60,000 children and pregnant women from low-income families will likely undergo significant changes in just its second year of operation

BALTIMORE – Campaigning in Baltimore’s Lexington Market one morning, Dr

ANNAPOLIS – House Speaker Casper Taylor promised Montgomery County lawmakers in January they would carry home so much state funding this year they would get hernias

BOYDS – Gaze at the historic Joseph White House, a jewel of formal Georgian architecture in rural Montgomery County, and one word comes to mind

ANNAPOLIS – A conference committee Wednesday rejected a House proposal to limit state-funded abortions for new Medicaid recipients under a bill that expands the number of eligible Marylanders

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland spent at least four times more on abortions in 1996 than all of its neighbors combined, according to figures supplied by state and Washington, D

ANNAPOLIS – A bill that would have required certification of Maryland opticians has died, leaving supporters charging that lawmakers have turned a blind eye to a looming public health threat

ANNAPOLIS – Lawmakers moved quickly last week to kill a “well-intentioned” bill to limit human cloning experiments, after scientists warned that it might unwittingly stifle research on Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes and cancer

ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland Court of Special Appeals lectured a Baltimore Circuit Court judge this week on the potentially corruptive influences of chocolate chip cookies in a courtroom

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s highest court has suspended Robin Ficker’s license to practice law, an action that the Bethesda lawyer, gadfly and noted sports fan said was motivated by politics