Maryland

Casino Bills,570

ANNAPOLIS – How would casino gambling affect Maryland?

With only their zeal in common, lobbyists, industry magnates and clergy packed a House Joint Hearing Friday to tackle that question

Freshman Lawmaker Says He’ll Spend Session Listening

ANNAPOLIS – In 1975, a 4th grade teacher at Ritchie Elementary in Capitol Heights required her pupils to study current events

Editors: Please hold for release for Sunday, March 5, and after.

WASHINGTON – For 17 years, Shirley Warnick worked at a syrup plant in rural Garrett County

Proposed Access to Communicable Disease Information Limited

ANNAPOLIS – Fearing the specter of citizens legally snooping through each other’s medical files, opponents of a communicable disease information access bill had the proposal amended before it was heard this week

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Urges Retention of White Oak Wind Tunnel

WASHINGTON – The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told an independent base closure commission Wednesday that a wind tunnel at the White Oak naval center should be preserved because of its “unique national capability

Lawmakers Want Partnership To Replace Wilson Bridge

ANNAPOLIS – Drivers who cross the Woodrow Wilson Bridge could pay a toll if the federally owned span is turned over to Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia

Base Closings,600

WASHINGTON – Business leaders in Montgomery and Washington counties Tuesday said the Defense Department’s proposed closing of two military bases in Maryland would mean a substantial economic loss to their communities

Motorcyclists Lobby for Personal Freedom

ANNAPOLIS – Suzanna Greenbank told state senators Tuesday that she doesn’t want to wear a motorcycle helmet

Bill Would Reintroduce Power Dredging of Oysters

ANNAPOLIS – At the urging of watermen, a Senate committee is considering legislation that would reintroduce power dredging in the Chesapeake Bay waters off Somerset County