Maryland Performers Light Up National Christmas Tree Celebration With Music

WASHINGTON – When the Girl Scouts of Upper Montgomery County were thinking about performing at the Pageant of Peace on the Ellipse this year, some parents worried about security in the wake of Sept

Enactment of Rights Law Delights Maryland Gay Community

ANNAPOLIS – The enactment of Maryland’s 2001 Anti-discrimination Act means David Pool no longer has to fear losing his job

Maryland Agriculture Needs Help to Battle Livestock Agroterror

ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland Department of Agriculture’s animal health program is “totally incapable” of handling a large-scale animal health emergency without considerable help from other state and federal agencies, State Veterinarian Roger Olson told members of the Senate Health Subcommittee this week

Tax Opponents Pan, Counties Praise Plan to Lift Caps on Education Funding

ANNAPOLIS – School and county officials are mostly pleased with the recommendations of a commission set to overhaul the state’s education funding system, especially the call to end property tax caps in five counties

Feds Refuse OK Wilson Bridge Contract, State `Concerned,’ Unsure of Next Move

WASHINGTON – The Bush administration Friday refused to approve Maryland’s use of a project labor agreement on a contract for Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge, the latest thrust in a battle that has already delayed bids on the project by two months

Pearl Harbor Vets Gather, Urge Nation to Remember a Long-Ago Day of Infamy

WASHINGTON – Rockville resident Henry Rapalus, 78, will be in Hawaii on Friday, 60 years to the day after he was a young sailor handling ammunition on a naval destroyer when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor

Calvert County Vet Offers to Give Up Arlington Burial Plot to Sept. 11 Hero

WASHINGTON – Calvert County veteran John Smith thinks American Airlines pilot Charles Burlingame died like a hero and that he deserves to be buried like a hero

Commission Recommends Raising Legislators’ Salaries

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland legislators should receive a 38 percent raise in their salaries over a four-year period starting in January 2003, the General Assembly Compensation Commission recommended Thursday

Justices Grill Verizon, PSC Attorneys on Federal Jurisdiction in State Dispute

WASHINGTON – Supreme Court justices peppered lawyers from Verizon Maryland Inc