Maryland

Bills Propose Cost-Share Program To Get Rid of Phragmites Reed

ANNAPOLIS – If you have driven over the Kent Narrows Bridge, you have probably seen phragmites

Truant Students Could Lose Driver’s Licenses

ANNAPOLIS – Students between the ages of 15 and 17 who are consistently truant could have their driver’s licenses suspended under a bill before a Senate committee

Court Affirms Conviction in Park Police Case

ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland Court of Special Appeals upheld the conviction this week of a man who drew a gun on a U

Legislation Pits County Governments against Schools

ANNAPOLIS – Legislation that would sharply reduce the funds county governments are required to give local school boards is pitting counties against public school officials at the Maryland Statehouse

Snapping Turtle Bill Allows Hook and Line Method of Catching

ANNAPOLIS – When Michael Weir was a boy in the 1930s, he used to drop lines into Baltimore County’s Back River — not for fish, but for snapping turtles

DeWine Tries to Stop Browns Move to Maryland

WASHINGTON – In the latest effort to keep the Browns in Cleveland, Republican Sen

Nonprofits Ask State for Share of Economic Development Effort

ANNAPOLIS – Nonprofit organizations don’t want to be left out of state economic development plans

Maryland Republicans Want Bay Program Fully Funded

WASHINGTON – Maryland’s four Republican House members sent a letter this week to House Speaker Newt Gingrich asking him to help preserve funds for a program designed to protect the Chesapeake Bay

Black Doctors Cite Continuing Exclusion from HMOs

ANNAPOLIS – From 1988 through early 1994, Dr

Editors: Adds time element to the lede and drops “three-day conference” to the last graph.

WASHINGTON – Women – long excluded from the leadership of many civil rights organizations – need to play a greater role in the future, a panel of black religious and political leaders said Friday