State agencies in Maryland received $9.3 billion in federal grants this fiscal year, up 19 percent from a year earlier as stimulus money flowed from Washington, the Governor's Grants Office said Thursday. It said it expects the state will receive about the same amount of grant money next fiscal year — which starts July 1 — as it has this year. Almost 70 of the 510 grants are funded by stimulus money.
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