Maryland

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

ANNAPOLIS – When Pam Longenecker purchased an $80 fur-trimmed jacket for her daughter, she assumed the fur was fake

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland lawmakers want to fix a “critical shortage” of foreign-language speakers in the United States by urging immigrants and their families to preserve their native tongues

WASHINGTON – It’s becoming clearer by the week that neither Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton is going to run away with the Democratic nomination, which might leave the decision up to the party’s free-wheeling superdelegates