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Md. GOP picks Audrey Scott to be chairwoman
Maryland Republicans, buoyed by GOP victories in nearby states, elected a spunky, 73-year-old activist and politician Saturday as the new chairwoman. She pledged to reunite the fractious state party organization and capitalize on what many see as a...Tags: Government, Republican National Conventions, Martin O'Malley, National Government, Celebrities and Health Issues
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P.G. Co. police investigate UM student's report of rape
The Associated PressPrince George's County police were investigating the reported rape of a 21-year-old University of Maryland student early Sunday. Police said the student was at her home in College Park when she was awoken by a man sexually assaulting her. The woman...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Rape
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Health bill's abortion limits stir Md. activists
Baltimore Sun reportersMarylanders on both sides of the abortion divide are steeling themselves for a historic clash over the procedure, after lawmakers voted to prohibit federal subsidies for insurance that covers it. Under the restriction, which was added late Saturday to...Tags: National Government, Laws, Benjamin L. Cardin, Family Planning, Insurance
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Lipscomb could save a bundle
Part of the sentence handed down Thursday for developer Ronald Lipscomb after his guilty plea in the City Hall corruption investigation was that he'll stop donating to any city political candidates during the next three years. Fortunately for Maryland...Tags: Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), Peter Franchot, Martin O'Malley, National Government, Finance
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Fighting foreclosure
With the number of home foreclosures on the rise again in Maryland, Gov. Martin O'Malley's plan to require mediation before banks can begin proceedings to seize the houses of delinquent borrowers is a good idea, but it doesn't go far enough to help...Tags: Government, Martin O'Malley, Personal Income, Corporate Crime, Foreclosures
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ICC was always intended to exclude most people
There wasn't much public in the public hearing held by the Maryland Transportation Authority last week in Beltsville on its proposed tolls on the just-around-the-corner Intercounty Connector. A couple of dozen folks who might actually be described as...Tags: Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), Road Transportation, State Budgets, Activism, Family
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A tougher line on dropouts
A report last week that Montgomery County officials now favor raising from 16 to 18 the minimum legal age at which students can drop out of school signals a growing awareness that Maryland's future depends on a well-educated work force capable of...Tags: Prisons, Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), Globalization, Teaching and Learning
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Alexander Gray Jones, Somerset County lawyer
Alexander Gray "Sandy" Jones, a retired Somerset County lawyer who had been a civil rights activist, public school advocate and a longtime member of the board of visitors and governors at Washington College, died Saturday of multiple organ failure at...Tags: Civil Rights, Somerset County (Maryland), National Government, Patrick Jones, Christianity
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At what point does safety trump the right to drive?
There are people who simply should not be permitted to own or operate motor vehicles. Thomas Meighan Jr. is one of them. Long before the Oct. 16 incident in which he faces charges related to the hit-and-run death of Johns Hopkins student Miriam Frankl,...Tags: Vehicles, Road Transportation, Drunk Driving, Transportation, Frederick County (Maryland)
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Beltway sniper's execution nears
Los Angeles TimesSeven years ago, the captured "Beltway Snipers" - John Allen Muhammad, 41, and his 17-year-old accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo - were in federal custody, accused of 16 shootings and 10 murders. They had set out to create a reign of terror in the Washington...Tags: Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), Prosecution, John Ashcroft, Death Penalty, Punishment
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P.G.'s Revenue Authority to set out speed cameras
A reader named John Dusch sent along an article from the Gazette in Prince George's County on speed cameras, thinking I'd be interested. I was.
It seems the Prince George's County Council has approved plans for speed cameras and has designated the county...Tags: Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), Road Transportation, Imperial and Royal Matters, Punishment, Newspapers
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Key lawmakers question Md. execution process
The co-chairs of a Maryland regulatory committee warned Friday that a failed execution attempt in Ohio could be repeated here without mandatory medical training for executioners and raised concerns about the use of lethal drugs deemed too cruel for even...Tags: Animals, Government, Drugs and Medicines, Paul G Pinsky, Martin O'Malley
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