Maryland

Second Study Documents Lengthening of Time to College Degree

ANNAPOLIS – Two studies in as many days have found that the time it takes students to earn a bachelor’s degree is increasing in Maryland

Committee Considers Streamlined Environmental Permitting

ANNAPOLIS – A study presented to lawmakers this week concludes that the environmental permitting process for business and developers is hampered by overlapping permits and duplicative government oversight

Clinton’s Re-election Bodes Well For Blacks, But GOP Gains in Senate Could Hurt, Professors Say

COLLEGE PARK – President Clinton’s re-election with the help of black voters and the diversity of his first-term cabinet show that blacks have become more influential in policy making, said three black professors at the University of Maryland

State Capital Stunned by Death of Leading Senator

ANNAPOLIS – Shock and sadness gripped the state capital Thursday, as friends and colleagues recalled state Sen

Regional Board Make Plans to Reduce Car Thefts, Juvenile Crime

WASHINGTON – A regional board moved this week to take a bite out of motor vehicle thefts, hate crimes and crimes committed by juveniles

BWI Clocks,445

ANNAPOLIS – By next spring, passengers and visitors at Baltimore Washington International airport no longer will tell time by the antiquated method of reading clocks with hands

UMS Regents To Consider Changes To Boost On-Time Graduations

BALTIMORE – Two classes will stop Isiah Brown from graduating this spring

Twenty-five Years Later, Mikulski Still Fights For the Underdogs

BALTIMORE – Barbara Mikulski began her political career in the pews and folding chairs of a Fells Point storefront mission surrounded by longshoremen, auto workers, carpenters and steel workers

Appeals Court Holds Police Investigation to the 4th Amendment

ANNAPOLIS – While recognizing the gravity of the drug problem, the Maryland Court of Appeals said Tuesday that it could not suspend constitutional guarantees on behalf of the government’s “war on drugs