Fresh out of the three-month General Assembly session, Gov. Martin O’Malley stopped in east Baltimore Thursday for a forum on economic development. And, he broke some news. Two new restaurants are expected to open in the East Baltimore Development Inc. ...

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The General Assembly spent much time and effort this session getting the state ready for the implementation of federal health care reform. “Health reform is only as good as states’ abilities to implement reform,” said Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown. ...

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Two women can now be named as mothers on birth certificates without a court order in Maryland. In a letter to birth registrars on Thursday, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene states that beginning no later than March 1, ...

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Legislative budget analysts are recommending the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene double the price of birth and death certificates from $12 to $24 a piece as a way to raise $7.9 million for fiscal 2012. Maryland charges $12 for ...

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CUMBERLAND — Gov. Martin O’Malley is proposing closure of a state center for the intellectually disabled in Cumberland. The July shutdown of the Joseph D. Brandenburg Center is among nearly $1 billion in cost-saving measures the administration outlined Friday. The ...

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BERLIN — Joshua Sharfstein, the Food and Drug Administration’s No. 2 official, is leaving the Obama administration and returning to Maryland to become the state’s top health official there as Republicans take control of the U.S. House of Representatives, vowing ...

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The deputy commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration will head Maryland’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited unnamed government sources. Dr. Joshua M. Sharfstein, who was appointed to his post by ...

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The $33 million state debt burden for the State Center parking garage, as well as the absence of a formal agreement on labor costs or local hiring, led Comptroller Peter Franchot to vote against approving the parking garage lease agreement ...

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U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan K. Gauvey won The Daily Record’s top Leadership in Law award for 2010, honoring her decades of work in public service. “As all of you know, none of us truly do it alone,” Gauvey said, lavishing ...

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Health council staff recommended that the Health Care Reform Coordinating Council make the Maryland Insurance Exchange — the new entity for people without insurance and others to purchase coverage — an independent government agency. At a meeting Tuesday morning, council ...

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