Maryland

ANNAPOLIS – Legislation to create a temporary moratorium on natural gas drilling in Western Maryland’s Marcellus Shale deposits appears poised for passage in the House of Delegates

ANNAPOLIS – In a small office tucked away in the Chesapeake Innovation Center, SemaConnect engineers hand assemble prototypes of electric vehicle charging stations

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon is proposing an increase in insurance health care premiums for military retirees and their families to ease federal budget problems, but some veterans’ groups are challenging that saying low payments are justified given the dangerous call-to-duty their members have answered

ANNAPOLIS – Gun-rights advocates can rest easy after a House panel this week killed some of the most controversial firearms proposals facing the General Assembly

WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency’s method to estimate the amount of poultry manure that leaches into the Chesapeake Bay was just one policy challenged during Wednesday’s meeting of the House Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy and Forestry

WASHINGTON — Gov

WASHINGTON – Maryland’s only nuclear power plant is fundamentally different from the endangered Fukushima plant in Japan, but what’s happening on the other side of the world could suppress the public’s appetite for more reactors here

ANNAPOLIS — Citing recent incidents in Maryland and other states, some anti-abortion lawmakers are calling for regulations that they say the state health department has failed to provide

ANNAPOLIS – For the third consecutive year, Gov

ELKRIDGE – The Maryland Hospital Association is urging the state to spread a hospital tax evenly among providers and the self-insured to avoid hitting its members too hard, a position highlighted last week during a Medicaid briefing at the group’s headquarters in Elkridge