Grant Keeps Mobile Medical Care Rolling

ANNAPOLIS Mobile Medical Care Inc

Maryland Turns Focus on Lead Paint to Individual Homes

WASHINGTON – Maryland officials said they will use a federal grant to turn lead paint abatement programs away from large apartment complexes, focusing instead on individual’s homes and small rental units

Police Request More Tools to Fight Child Pornography

ANNAPOLIS Police this week asked state legislators for more tools in their increasingly high-tech war against child pornography, but critics warned that quirks in Internet technology could unfairly subject innocent people to prosecution

Local Jailers Pass on Opportunity to Grab Federal Funds

WASHINGTON – The state and six counties will get $3

Despite a Wet January, Farmers Want More Rain

ANNAPOLIS It may be a wet winter but don’t let that fool you; Maryland has not lifted its statewide advisory to take shorter showers and conserve water in general

Anti-Abortion Internet Site Turns Focus on Maryland Doctors

WASHINGTON – Abortion-rights supporters in Maryland had little time last week to celebrate a $107 million Oregon verdict against an anti-abortion web site that has now turned its focus on doctors here

White House Wants to Attach Strings to State Tobacco Settlement Funds

WASHINGTON – The White House will not relinquish its claim to a portion of the states’ $246 billion tobacco settlement unless the states agree to use the money for public health and anti-smoking programs

Legislators, Retailers Seek Tax-Free Week

ANNAPOLIS- Back-to-school clothes may be five percent cheaper next year if some legislators win General Assembly approval for a bill creating a sales tax-free week in Maryland

Infrequent Hospice Inspections Miss Disturbing Problems

ANNAPOLIS State inspectors visiting hospice programs have uncovered long-standing and serious problems that the current 10-year inspection cycle allows to continue for too long, the licensing director of the state health department told the General Assembly this week