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Maryland House passes gun-control bill
The House of Delegates voted Wednesday to give Maryland one of the toughest gun laws in the nation, passing a bill that would ban the sale of assault-type weapons, set a 10-bullet limit on magazines and require fingerprints and a license to buy a handgun....
Tags: Executive Branch, Periodicals, Justice System, Assault, Annapolis
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Teachers packing heat
It is easy to dismiss the report released Tuesday by the National Rifle Association-financed school safety task force as nothing but an effort to change the topic from the broader issue of gun violence or especially gun control (even the watered-down...
Tags: Gun Control, Health and Safety at School, U.S. Senate, Wayne LaPierre, Elections
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Shelter death of homeless man was a preventable tragedy
The death of Dana Bolden, 46, from a stab wound to the chest inflicted by another resident at Baltimore's 24-hour homeless shelter, was an entirely preventable tragedy ("Vigil for homeless man killed inside city shelter," March 31). Mayor Stephanie...Tags: Homelessness, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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UMD adds $5M over 10 years to mental health services
Officials at the University of Maryland have pledged to spend an additional $5 million on student mental health services at the state's flagship College Park campus over the next 10 years, the largest investment in counseling services there in decades....
Tags: Murder, Colleges and Universities, Health and Safety at School, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Students
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'Gun Center,' money to offset sequester cuts included in O'Malley's $222 million in supplemental budget
The Baltimore SunGov. Martin O'Malley today released a $222 million supplemental budget that creates a "Gun Center," strives to save a baseball program and sets aside another $10 million in case federal sequestration cuts take a toll on Maryland. The governor designated...Tags: Gun Control, Budgets and Budgeting, Government, Executive Branch, First Aid
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State investigating Baltimore methadone clinic after man's death
The day after her ex-husband's funeral in January, Sabrina Lumpkin started calling every public official she could think of, trying to get someone to pay attention. Warren Lumpkin, 34, had died in a Southwest Baltimore house of heart complications...
Tags: Substance Abuse, Pain, Symptoms, Pharmaceuticals, Elkton
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Md. gun bill gets stronger
Despite the national horror at the massacre of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December, the effort in Congress to enact any meaningful legislation to address gun violence appears increasingly at risk. The first casualty of...
Tags: Government, Executive Branch, Justice System, Assault, Lobbying
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Survey finds little change in number of Howard County homeless
The 2013 Point-In-Time survey counted 203 homeless Howard County residents Jan. 23, with the majority of those surveyed staying in North Laurel and Savage, according to Vidia Dhanraj, coordinator of community partnerships with the Department of Citizen...
Tags: House Building, Ken Ulman
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There are better ways to keep kids in school than giving teachers bonuses
I was appalled by your report that the Baltimore City school system is offering financial incentives to teachers in order to reduce the number of out-of-school student suspensions ("City trying bonuses to cut rate of suspension," Jan. 15). Children...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Teachers
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Annual survey finds 203 homeless in Howard
Howard County's homeless population decreased this year to 203, according to a Point-In-Time survey conducted in January by the county government. However, Andrea Ingram, executive director of the Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center in Columbia,...
Tags: Homelessness, House Building, Ken Ulman
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Don't equate crime with mental illness
I am grateful to Mark Komrad for his expert commentary related to persuading a troubled loved one or friend into professional mental health treatment and The Sun for publishing it ("Helping them to get help," Dec. 19). I would like to emphasize a point...Tags: Mental Illness, Depression, Behavioral Conditions, Bipolar Disorder, Diabetes
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Howard task force issues school safety report; work to start immediately
When the Joint Task Force on School Safety was established in Howard County days after the tragic shooting in Newtown, Conn., members of the school system, government and police were charged with reviewing school safety and to find ways to improve it It...
Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Behavioral Conditions, Health and Safety at School, Ken Ulman, Students
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