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ANNAPOLIS — A safe space in Baltimore for drug use for those addicted to opioids would generate an estimated $6 million in net health care cost savings and bring 121 people into treatment annually, according to a panel of law ...

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Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this item incorrectly stated the source of a report about the cost of the renewed program. The report came from Montgomery County Public Schools. And a mention of continuing the Phoenix program in students’ ...

LANGLEY PARK — For decades, Prince George’s County had been criticized for neglecting Langley Park, a transient, low-income Latino neighborhood on its far northwest border. That impression began to change in 2012, when Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker ...

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The fight to put Harriet Tubman on the face of the $20 bill by 2020 has been revived with the introduction of bipartisan legislation in the House co-sponsored by Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Baltimore. “Too often, our nation does not do ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland legislators learned last week the state’s electronic balloting system may need better security measures to protect voters’ information and that the lawmakers must be the ones to add those protections. The state’s electoral board told lawmakers Sept. ...

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OCEAN CITY — As the summer tourism season comes to a close in Ocean City, Maryland, many businesses fear they may soon lose much of their seasonal workforce if the Trump administration cancels the J-1 visa program. The White House ...

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Last in an occasional series on rural Maryland CAMBRIDGE — Kevin McClarren has been growing oysters in nets on the Chesapeake Bay for 20 years. “We were told it would never work,” said McClarren, who manages four acres of floating ...

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  Third in an occasional series on rural Maryland Editor’s Note July 19, 2017: An earlier version of this story used an incorrect name for a manufacturing plant that once operated in Allegany County. The plant was run by the Celanese ...

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  Second in an occasional series on rural Maryland Editor’s Note July 19, 2017: an earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the number of dairy farms in Frederick County. There are about 88. FREDERICK — Before he got involved in ...

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Editor’s Note July 19, 2017: An earlier version of this story misidentified the Harford County Executive. He is Barry Glassman. ANNAPOLIS — In 2009, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley closed the visitor center at the Sideling Hill cut, the symbolic ...

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