Repopulating rural: Can Salisbury and other small urban enclaves make rural cool again?

SALISBURY, Maryland — Salisbury Mayor Jake Day, 34, has a floor-to-ceiling erasable board dotted with Post-it notes on the longest wall of his office. It’s a jarring display of terrestrial organization for a millennial, but Day is hardly old school.…

Revoking Parental Rights In Cases of Sexual Assault

Maryland lawmakers are now considering whether someone who has either been convicted or suspected of sexual assault or rape should be denied access to a child resulting from the alleged offense.

Maryland Minute Update: December 3, 2013

CNS reporter Ben Oldach talks about the latest headlines from around Maryland including a Morgan State fraternity that has been put on probation, a Montgomery County school teacher who has fled to Hong Kong and how one power plant in Cumberland is recycling energy.

In Maryland, A Potential Future For Cleaner Coal

Proposed EPA restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions have put the future of America’s coal-fired power plants in question. But the technology needed to reach those limits is available, with a few limitations and substantial costs, and Maryland is serving as a testing ground for its use and development.

Maryland Small Business Owners Tell Congress to Reform Taxes

Two Maryland business owners pushed their tax reform proposals to help companies succeed and plan for the future at a House Committee on Small Business hearing Wednesday.

Senate Gives Easton, Cumberland Mail Operations Reprieve

Sens. Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin added Maryland’s support to a postal reform bill in the Senate requiring the U.S. Postal Service to keep operating Easton and Cumberland mail processing facilities it had targeted for closure.

Cardin Criticizes Planned Maryland Postal Closures

The United States Postal Service has announced cuts that will affect three mail processing facilities in Maryland and is studying the closure of a third, to Sen. Ben Cardin’s dismay.