ANNAPOLIS – Not all patents filed in Maryland are complex scientific ones granted to inventors working for high-tech companies
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State’s Industrial Air Pollution Inches Down; Further Gains May be Elusive
WASHINGTON – The amount of air pollution emitted by all facilities reporting annually in Maryland fell slightly in the latter half of the 1990s, according to an analysis of four years of state emissions certification reports
Adoptions of Military Dogs Begins, But Not in Time to Save Robby
WASHINGTON – Help came too late for Robby
Student School Board Member ‘Seems to Have It All’
ANNAPOLIS – He successfully lobbied for schools to drop transcript fees, tried to remain out of the school board’s expense account mess and is pulling better than a 4
Activists, State, Company All Claim a Share of Cleaner Air by Sparrows Point
WASHINGTON – Janet B
Advocates Say Baltimore County Has `Blinders’ to Need for Low-Income Housing
WASHINGTON – The public housing project at Hollander Ridge was demolished last year, but the 8-foot wrought-iron fence that separated the Baltimore City project from its Baltimore County neighbors still stands
Who Let the Dogs Out? Military Won’t, Until Adopting Families Are Screened
WASHINGTON – Once a dog is declared “excess” by the Defense Department, meaning it cannot be used in another capacity by the military, it becomes a candidate for adoption
Ozone Remains Region’s Worst, and Most Stubborn, Air Pollution Problem
WASHINGTON – Ozone pollution in the Baltimore-Washington area is slowly improving, but it remains the biggest and most enduring air pollution problem in the region, said a state environmental official and a scientist who has studied the problem for years
Maryland GOP Women Sport Patent With Pride
ANNAPOLIS – When Peggy Irish’s husband told her to wander around the exhibition area of a seminar in New Orleans last year, neither expected her to start the process of patenting an ornament for the Maryland Federation of Republican Women
In Tech Wars, Patents Give Edge to Free State
ANNAPOLIS – If patents are an indicator of inventiveness, Maryland is edging out rival Virginia in that corner of the technology economy wars