Maryland

ANNAPOLIS – Fliers proclaiming House Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph Vallario, Jr

ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland Senate rejected an amendment to the state budget Wednesday that would have paved the way for repeal of the unpopular computer services tax

ANNAPOLIS – Some lawmakers want to withhold state aid from local governments with sanctuary policies that prohibit employees and police officers from asking someone’s immigration status

WASHINGTON – Maryland is a step closer to becoming the Smithsonian’s backyard garden, brimming with rare plants and a collection of 10,000 orchids

ANNAPOLIS – The Senate Budget and Taxation Committee voted Friday afternoon to cut money from a new Chesapeake Bay cleanup fund, trimmed the state’s higher education budget, and made other cuts in health and transportation

ANNAPOLIS – About a year ago, remodeling contractor Troy Chagnon began separating the waste materials from his job sites into neat piles – wood scraps here, old nails there, cardboard in the back

WASHINGTON- One year after a Prince George’s County boy died from untreated tooth decay, Maryland’s fledgling efforts at improving access for low-income children to dentists are being threatened by the state’s budget woes

WASHINGTON – Maryland members of Congress introduced legislation this week to honor Harriet Tubman, a Maryland-born abolitionist and humanitarian who led hundreds of slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad

BELTSVILLE – President Bush is cutting budgets, and at the largest agricultural research center in America, it’s all come down to the chickens

ANNAPOLIS – For the second year in a row, opponents are trying to get Maryland’s death penalty overturned in the legislature