Maryland

Reps React to Clinton’s Budget Proposal

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Congressional Incumbents Boast Flush Bank Accounts

ANNAPOLIS – Members of Maryland’s congressional delegation are sitting on bulging election-year war chests, with five House members over $200,000 and Sen

Montgomery Lawmaker Tells Rural Seniors to Take Their Medicine

ANNAPOLIS – A Montgomery County legislator has a message for Eastern Shore, Western and Southern Maryland seniors in a huff over new, $75-a-month Medicare premiums: get over it

Lawmaker Says `Tattered’ Teachers Don’t Make the Grade

ANNAPOLIS – Some teachers need to class up their acts, lawmakers and students told the House Ways and Means Committee Thursday

Rural Lawmakers’ Pfiesteria Plan Spreads Chicken Manure Around

ANNAPOLIS – Rural lawmakers Thursday unveiled their own plan to fight pfiesteria, including an “aggressive” proposal to ship as much as 180,000 tons of chicken manure off the lower Eastern Shore

Lawmakers Assured Coppin Mistakes Won’t Happen Again

ANNAPOLIS – University officials assured lawmakers Thursday that there will be “no questions” about future contracting procedures like those that swirled around Coppin State College and former Sen

Panel Seeks Hefty Raise for Governor, Other Top Officials

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s governor already makes the third- highest salary in the nation, but a state commission said he is overdue for a raise that would make him the highest paid

Jailed Dad Can’t be Made to Pay Child Support, Court Rules

ANNAPOLIS – The Court of Special Appeals on Wednesday ordered a new hearing for a father who was billed for five years of child support that accrued while he was in prison

Court Upholds Mandatory 25-Year Sentence for Career Burglar

ANNAPOLIS – A Maryland appeals court Wednesday upheld the mandatory 25-year jail term for a burglar who was sentenced just one day before lawmakers moved to relax the “three strikes, you’re out” law that put him behind bars