Maryland

Shore Libraries Face Competing Demands, Need More Support

ANNAPOLIS — Public libraries these days face some hard choices: Do they buy more computers so people can surf the Internet or start a bookmobile program in poor neighborhoods?

Library representatives met with Eastern Shore lawmakers Friday to discuss these pressures

Patient Consent before Data Collection, Demonstrators Say

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s Health Care Access and Cost Commission collects medical information from patients and compiles it into a database to determine costs of health care services

Retailers, Consumers Protest Bill Allowing New Video Rental Tax

ANNAPOLIS – Consumers and store owners staged a take-off on the Boston Tea Party Thursday to protest bills allowing localities to increase the sales tax on home video rentals to 10 percent

Volunteer Compensation,580

ANNAPOLIS – School volunteers who are injured on the job are not entitled to weekly disability payments under the state workers’ compensation law, Court of Appeals ruled Thursday

President’s Bridge Funding Not Enough, Say Maryland Officials

WASHINGTON – The Department of Transportation Wednesday proposed allotting $400 million for the construction of a new Woodrow Wilson Bridge – far short of the $1

Groups Call for Universities to Open Disciplinary Hearings

WASHINGTON – Wearing a button with her murdered daughter’s picture on it, Connie Clery called upon Congress Wednesday to pass a bill making college disciplinary hearings involving criminal allegations open to the public

What Do You Call a Lawmaker? Delegate? Or Assemblyman(woman)?

ANNAPOLIS – For 200 years, members of Maryland’s lower legislative house have been called “delegates

Amateur Star Gazers Gather To Watch Newly Discovered Comet

ANNAPOLIS – Hale-Bopp has proven the brightest comet to pass through the inner solar system since modern telescopes were invented

Emergency Room Bill Would Force Insurers to Cover Visits

WASHINGTON – A 23-year-old Baltimore woman who was five months pregnant was involved in a car accident last year and started suffering abdominal pain