State GOP opposes special session on gambling
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 24, 2012
Tags: casino, del. anthony o'donnell, gambling, gambling work group, General Assembly, gov. martin o'malley, house of delegates, republicans, special session, table games
ANNAPOLIS — Republicans in the House of Delegates are opposing a special session to take up proposed gambling expansion in Maryland. Del. Anthony O’Donnell, the minority leader, and Del. Jeannie Haddaway-Riccio, the minority whip, sent a letter to the Legislature’s presiding officers and Gov. Martin O’Malley on Thursday. They say special sessions should only be [...]
Maryland looking for new seafood logo
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 24, 2012
Tags: crabs, department of natural resources, maryland, maryland seafood commission, oysters, seafood, striped bass
ANNAPOLIS — Maryland is looking for a new logo to help market the state’s seafood and state officials are asking the public for their ideas. The Department of Natural Resources says the winning artist will win a fishing trip for five to harvest their choice of crabs, oysters or striped bass. State officials say the [...]
New state audit faults county social service agencies
BY: marylandreporter.com
POSTED: May 23, 2012
Tags: audit, Chief Legislative Auditor Bruce Myers, department of human resources, foster children, Joint Audit Committee, maryland, Office of Inspector General, social service agencies, welfare checks
ANNAPOLIS — County social service agencies don’t do a good job of tracking foster children, leave federal funding on the table, have missing files on welfare checks and grant food stamps to too many ineligible people, a new state audit found. These problems and a host of others on documentation and control were found in [...]
A heated debate over wireless radio contract before state spending panel
BY: marylandreporter.com
POSTED: May 23, 2012
Tags: Annapolis, Baltimore, board of public works, Elliot Schlanger, Government, legislation, maryland, secretary of information technology, wireless radio contact
ANNAPOLIS — Contracts over a statewide wireless radio network for first responders produced a heated debate before the Board of Public Works Wednesday, causing the award to be delayed for two weeks. Motorola was hired to provide radio equipment, installation and maintenance services for the $485 million system to be built in five phases. It’s [...]
O’Malley: New laws to spur Maryland innovation 
BY: Alexander Pyles
POSTED: May 22, 2012
Tags: Baltimore, Economy, food and drug administration, gov. martin o'malley, House of Delegates Speaker Michael E. Busch, innovation, johns hopkins university, Law, maryland, Maryland Innovation Initiative, morgan state university, Senate Majority Leader Robert J. Garagiola, Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr., The Lend Local Act, University of Maryland
ANNAPOLIS — Community banks will get millions of dollars in state deposits for small business loans, research at state universities will be better commercialized and arsenic additives will be banned from chicken feed. Legislation that does all of that — plus raises some taxes, part of the final components of a budget package passed last [...]
O’Malley signs chicken feed arsenic ban
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 22, 2012
Tags: arsenic, ban, bill, chicken feed, del. aisha braveboy, delegate Tom Hucker, Education, Environment, family farm preservation act, funeral establishments, governor o'malley, high school dropout, iran, legislation, Maryland Innovation Initiative, signed, u.s. food and drug administration
ANNAPOLIS — Maryland next year will become the first state to ban an arsenic additive in chicken feed. Gov. Martin O’Malley signed the measure into law on Tuesday along with scores of other bills, including reforms to Maryland’s estate tax to help protect family farms and an increase of the allowable high school dropout age [...]
Frederick County may contract for park maintenance
BY: The Frederick-News Post
POSTED: May 22, 2012
Tags: contract, county, frederick, Frederick County Manager David Dunn, maryland, park maintenance, Rose Hill Manor Park
FREDERICK — Frederick County is renewing its push for privatization of some government services with a proposal to contract for maintenance of a county park. The Frederick News-Post reports that the county’s parks and recreation department is proposing outsourcing chimney inspection, carpet cleaning, tree-trimming, exterior painting and other maintenance of Rose Hill Manor Park. Agency [...]
Key voting rights clause upheld
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 20, 2012
Tags: Chief Justice John Roberts, clause, justice department, NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, upheld, voting rights act, Xochitl Hinojosa
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, rejecting an Alabama county’s challenge to the landmark civil rights law. The provision requires state, county and local governments with a history of discrimination to obtain advance approval from the Justice Department, or from a federal court in [...]
Scant economic boost from protest for Thurmont
BY: Alexander Pyles
POSTED: May 18, 2012
Tags: camp david, g8, John Kinnaird, maryland, Mayor Martin A. Burns, occupy, occupy baltimore, president obama, protest, summit, thurmont
THURMONT — Rebecca Richey doesn’t understand why some of this town’s 6,000 residents were dreading the weekend G-8 summit at nearby Camp David. “There’s a lot of people who are not very welcoming,” Richey said. “They don’t want to disrupt our small town. They don’t see the economic part of it.” Richey, a waitress at [...]
Postal Service to begin closing plants this summer
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 17, 2012
Tags: budget, closing, closure, Congress, debt, mail processing, postal service, postmaster general patrick donahoe, senate, united states
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WASHINGTON — The nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service is moving ahead with plans to close dozens of mail processing centers, saying on Thursday it can no longer wait as Congress remains deadlocked over how to help. At a news briefing, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said the agency’s mail processing network had simply become too big, [...]
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