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Western Md. health exchange finds paper trail around Obamacare glitches
One of Maryland’s six health care groups contracted to enroll Marylanders in Obamacare health insurance plans has found a way around computer glitches the state has been experiencing since the health insurance exchange opened Oct. 1 – they’re going back to paper.
Study: About 6% of state employees make six figures
Maryland Reporter’s third annual report on state salaries found that 5,663 state employees pulled in $100,000 or greater in 2012 — about 6 percent of total state employees. Three out […]
State credit cards were used to dodge bidding rules at UMB
One department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore was found to have misused state-issued credit cards to dodge purchasing rules, according to state auditors. An audit report released Monday said […]
Child support agency makes progress on reforms
Within the past few months, the Department of Human Resources has made significant progress in resolving the issues raised by the Office of Legislative Audits concerning its Child Support Enforcement […]
Webcasts of Senate panel voting shot down
Maryland citizens will have to wait at least another year to get remote access to one of the most important but least accessible parts of the legislative process: committee voting sessions in which bills are amended, killed or sent to the floor.
Repeat problems at DHR dismay senators
State senators on a budget subcommittee said that they were dismayed by the abysmal results of the state’s most recent audit of its Department of Human Resources, which distributes welfare, […]
‘Bilateral disarmament’ proposed on redistricting
Sen. Paul Pinsky, a leader of the left in the state Senate, freely concedes he’d like to see as many “liberals and progressives” elected to Congress as possible. But the […]
Poll: Md. opposes gas tax hike — and executions
A new poll shows increasing support among Marylanders for abolishing the death penalty and strong backing for tighter gun controls, but strong opposition to an increase in the gas tax […]
Legislation would create fines for violating Open Meetings Act
ANNAPOLIS — Del. Dan K. Morhaim, chairman of the Government Operations subcommittee, plans on introducing a bill to beef up the regulatory powers of the Open Meetings Compliance Board, allowing […]
Busch says there’s no war on rural counties
CAMBRIDGE — When Speaker Michael Busch stands in front of the House of Delegates Wednesday for his 10th routine re-election as its presiding officer, 70 percent of the elected officials […]
General Assembly’s new web site more user-friendly
The Maryland General Assembly has launched its new website, modernizing its look and adding several new features. It also has a new URL web address, http://mgaleg.maryland.gov, but users of the […]
Disabilities agency says problem of unspent funds is history
Maryland Health Secretary Joshua Sharfstein told a town hall meeting in Columbia Tuesday night that the troubled Developmental Disabilities Administration has made significant progress since discovering $34 million in unspent […]
