barbara mikulski

A Doctors Without Borders physician describes the good American anti-AIDS programs are doing, and the risks posed by 'supercommittee' cuts.

Government puts up too many barriers to prevent the poor from getting the help they need

Sen. Barbara Mikulski opposes a regulation that would raise the prevailing wage in industries like seafood, landscaping and construction.

Dozens of Baltimore County veterans, politicians and citizens gathered around the Wayside Cross—which has been a fixture in downtown Towson for nearly a century—to pay tribute to America's military veterans on a blustery Friday morning.

Benjamin L. Cardin formally launched his campaign for re-election on Sunday. The Democrat is one of the few in the nation expected to have an easy ride to another term.

Politicians in other states might be reluctant to stand up for an official accused of corruption, but in Maryland, leading elected officials have testified as character witnesses for state Sen. Ulysses Currie, who is charged with bribery.

Sen Barbara Mikulski: Wrong on Canadian drug imports

Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski said Wednesday she expects the Senate will pass a budget bill on Tuesday that will include $530 million to continue work toward launch of the Webb Telescope in 2018

Mikulski shouldn't block proposed change that favors foreign workers in state's seafood industry

The only things endangered by import of Canadian drugs are the huge profits of U.S. pharmaceutical companies

Henry Rosenberg is the man behind statue of Brooks Robinson. The former Orioles great's longtime friend worked seven years to honor the Hall of Fame third baseman.

A full-size model of the James Webb Space Telescope, which will be assembled in and operated from Maryland, is on display at the Inner Harbor through the end of the month.

Congress must protect contract farmers from abusive poultry industry practices

Adam Riess, a Johns Hopkins University professor, is one of a trio of scientists sharing the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics.

House wants to kill costly project

Measure would have made industry pay more for temporary guest workers

Maryland has been allocated $22 million in stimulus funds to begin work on replacing the Susquehanna River Railroad Bridge, the states' senators announced Friday.

Members of Maryland's seafood industry are fighting a U.S. Department of Labor rule that would require businesses to pay higher wages for temporary guest workers who come to the U.S. each summer to pick crabs and shuck oysters.

Proposal to slash funds to provide legal assistance to the poor falls short of America's ideals

As Marylanders gathered in Baltimore Sunday to dedicate the state's memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the weather abruptly shifted from sunshine to a rain that struck some there as absolutely fitting.

More than 70 candidates are vying for 14 seats on the Baltimore City Council — a job characterized by lengthy meetings, endless calls from residents about vacant homes and rats, and, in the city's strong mayor form of government, very little political power.

Maryland Democrats in Congress cheered President Barack Obama's plan to cut taxes and increase spending as a way to spur job growth, but the state's Republicans have some questions.

Government and military officials praise relationships as BRAC process closes

Bill Cosby braved heavy rains Wednesday to stump for mayoral challenger Otis Rolley at a West Baltimore senior apartment building.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake boasts an imposing lead over her challengers ahead of the Democratic primary, with a larger percentage of likely voters than all of her rivals combined, according to an exclusive Baltimore Sun opinion poll.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake boasts an imposing lead over her challengers ahead of the Democratic primary, with a larger percentage of likely voters than all of her rivals combined, according to an exclusive Baltimore Sun opinion poll.

It took 62 years to happen but the Class of 1949 of Havre de Grace Colored High School finally had an official reunion earlier this month.

Former congressional pages from Maryland — including some who have gone on to long careers in politics — lament the decision to end the nearly 200-year-old program this month.

Building the Harriet Tubman visitors center on the Eastern Shore is a good first step but adding a national park would complete the honor and add jobs

A project that will be the centerpiece of an effort to honor Harriet Tubman is getting federal funding.

Government needs to step up and increase its efforts to combat the growing problem of sex trafficking

Dolores B. Canoles, a former longtime Canton neighborhood activist who joined the battle in the late 1960s that successfully killed a proposed extension of Interstate 83 through East Baltimore, died Aug. 3 from complications of dementia at Oak Crest Village retirement community.

For Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin and other liberal Democrats in the Senate who are up for election next year, the decision Tuesday to vote for the compromise to raise the nation's debt ceiling was grueling. But unlike in the House, a majority of Senate Democrats backed the deal.

Howard Community College is part of a three-college consortium that will launch a Mount Airy-based health care training center to propel job seekers into those high-demand careers, HCC officials said.

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