barbara mikulski
- Federal, local and college officials gather to break ground on a new health care education center for Howard, Carroll and Frederick community colleges in Mt. Airy
- Compromise on deficit reduction advocated by congressional Democrats would threaten higher taxes for Maryland horse breeders
- The Anne Arundel County branch of the NAACP is seeking a federal Justice Department probe of the county's police department, claiming that African American officers say they are subjected to discrimination by the agency.
- The Anne Arundel County branch of the NAACP is seeking a federal Justice Department probe of the county's police department, claiming that African American officers say they are subjected to discrimination by the agency.
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NOAA is creating an inventory of more than 30,000 coastal shipwrecks — many casualties of the 1942 Battle of the Atlantic — and identify those that pose the most significant threat. - Unsolicited pamphlet a perfect example of government waste
- Hundreds of drugs have been in short supply at the nation's hospitals and community pharmacies, leaving patients with less effective or more costly substitutes.
- A few dozen works of art are on display through Sunday in an exhibit titled "Art Reinvention," in which 29 artists used raw, organic, found and recycled materials in inventive ways.
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- Federal, state and local officials gather in Elkridge to mark the opening of a key facility in the $115 million plan to build a broadband fiber-optic cable network in Central Maryland.
- The center, a warehouse in the Route 1 Industrial Park, is where the fiber and other materials needed for the project will be packaged, tracked and sent out for construction.
- David Crowl, a dairy farmer from Street, was among more than 65 Dairy Farmers of America Inc. board members and young cooperators who visited Capitol Hill last month to discuss issues affecting the dairy industry.
- State health secretary Joshua Sharfstein writes that four years after Deamonte Driver's death, Maryland now leads the nation in oral health care for children — but the work isn't done
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- Outdoors: Recent string of poaching busts makes this an opportune time to push for drastic change in the way watermen are regulated
- William Donald Schaefer was buried Wednesday after a warm and often humorous service attended by much of Maryland's political establishment past and present as well as citizens who felt a personal kinship to the former mayor and governor
- Sheppard Pratt is a corporate giant trying to exert its will on a community, and the federal law that allows it to happen needs to be changed.
- Sen. Barbara Mikulski recalls fighting with William Donald Schaefer over a massive highway project, losing, then working with him toward a compromise.
- Hundreds of Marylanders — hands on their hearts, crisply saluting or wiping away tears — lined streets and gathered at landmarks to bid personal farewells to William Donald Schaefer
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- William Donald Schaefer — the former mayor, governor and comptroller who left an indelible mark on Baltimore — is heading back to the city this afternoon for one last tour.
- Politicians who want to emulate William Donald Schaefer take note: His career offers lessons in what kind of leadership the public really wants.
- William Donald Schaefer as a mayor tormented by the issues of office sought the silence and solace of the church in downtown Baltimore where his funeral will be held Wednesday.
