natural resources
- Despite safety campaigns and stepped-up enforcement, Maryland will have its most deadly year on the water since 1992. Twenty-five people, ranging in age from 14 to 81, have been killed so far in boating accidents.
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Five Maryland toll bridges will be getting sensors to detect stopped vehicles, above- and below-span cameras and new lighting as part of an $11 million security upgrade. - Chad Wells hosts a campfire dinner at Joe Squared, featuring an all-you-can-kill menu
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- Just as squirrels can be expected to keep working on a squirrel-proof bird feeder until they demonstrate that no bird feeder is truly squirrel-proof, developers can be expected to keep seeking permission to build on property if they think they can sell the houses.
- In a deal some say could be a model for land preservation in lean budget times, a wealthy businessman has agreed to give up development rights — and grant limited but free public access — to a 950-acre former wildlife sanctuary on the Eastern Shore that he bought 18 months ago.
- Health reform: When patients' needs are put first, the system can save money and improve outcomes
- Suggestions for what should become of Nancy Pelosi, Charlie Rangel, Sheila Dixon and Jon Corzine.
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- Maryland Natural Resources Police said they will resume searching for a missing boater Monday morning, nearly two days after his sailboat capsized on the Chesapeake Bay, killing another man and sending a woman to the hospital.
- The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has not lost track of guns used in safety training courses
- Thomas Mech said he never knew how the animals he killed while hunting felt until he accidentallly shot himself in the thigh Dec. 3 while hunting with his brother in Monkton, Maryland
- U.S. should follow Canada's lead on energy and approve the Keystone XL pipeline
- With only two Christmas tree farms left in Howard County, owners try to show off natural appeal
- Gov. Martin O'Malley said that BGE customers would benefit more from the creation of new power in Maryland than the immediate $100 rate credit if the proposed merger between Constellation and Exelon approved.
- Some residents and commission members opposed to adding site by Wetlands Golf Course
- In a settlement with Gov. Martin O'Malley, Exelon Corp. promised to develop significantly more natural gas, wind and solar power in Maryland, contribute more money to help low-income electricity customers and provide more protection for Baltimore Gas and Electric.
- Jay Hancock: Maryland has been waiting for energy companies to build new generation capacity without getting ratepayers to foot the bill. Only when a $7.9 billion merger and a retiring executive's legacy were at stake did the commitments finally get made.
- State Planning Secretary Richard Hall defended the administration's effort to draft an executive order implementing Smart Growth rules against Senate Minority Leader E. J. Pipkin's demand that any such plan be submitted to the General Assembly for approval.
- Teaching compassion for man and beast
- The governors of Maryland and Virginia may be rivals on the national level, but they have cooperated on some regional issues
- The Maryland Department of Natural Resources Police lost track of 761 state-owned firearms it issued to volunteer trainers in hunter education programs, creating a "public safety risk" and a potential misuse of federal money, according to a recent audit by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
- Heavy rains routinely trigger big sewage overflows in Baltimore, but there is growing evidence that chronic leaks in dry weather from the region's aging, cracked sewer lines are a bigger threat to public health
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- Relatives of a 9-year-old boy killed by a falling tree at a Carroll County nature camp two years ago have filed a $12 million suit against the county.
- Despite an ever-increasing focus on preserving valuable forest land at the state level, private properties along the edges of Patapsco Valley State Park are continuing to be dev…
- A West Laurel woman reported seeing a black bear at the end of Supplee Lane at 7 a.m. Dec. 4.
- The weather outside might turn frightful, but the Board of County Commissioners is promising a delightful ceremony nonetheless as the county hosts its eighth annual Christmas Tree Lighting today, Tuesday, Dec. 6, at the county office building, 225 North Center St., Westminster.
- To a certain extent, the Fallston Subdistrict is a template for a brand of piecemeal development extension beyond what makes sense from the perspective of providing public water and sewer service. The notion of increasing development between Aberdeen and Havre de Grace seems to follow that template.
- Initiatives that protect the Chesapeake Bay while reducing dependence on foreign oil should be preserved in Farm Bill
- This holiday season, Frisky's Wildlife Sanctuary is thankful for not one, not two, but three recently completed Eagle Scout projects.
- The 20-foot Christmas tree outside the Maryland Department of Agriculture headquarters in Annapolis came from a Harford County tree farm. The tree came from Deer Creek Valley Tree Farm, 3744 Ady Road in Street.
- Constellation Energy Group to acquire an Oklahoma natural gas company for $22.5 million.
- Energy exec who advocates more oil and gas drilling doesn't care about protecting Earth's air, water and wetlands; if he did he wouldn't treat the world as a litter box for petroleum wastes
- Fire officials responding to reports of a possible gas leak in Baltimore Monday night said they found what appeared to be a methamphetamine lab.
- The Harford County planning director discusses the Master Plan and Land Use Element Plan during Monday's Abingdon Community Council meeting.
- It's a darn shame, but I've noticed a lot of wasted food in this world where hunger and malnutrition are such problems
- The Grapevine: A rough year for growers, a tough forecast ahead
- While China gobbles up oil and Russia cements its petroleum-for-influence scheme, the U.S. and Europe keep rejecting oil from the friendliest of neighbors, Canada.
- The delay of the Keystone XL pipeline is one in a long series of decisions that has strangled the nation's economy, tied our fortunes to Middle East oil and ceded the advantage to China and other Asian economies.
- A silver maple in Elkton has lost the title of Maryland's Largest Tree after high winds last week left it severely damaged, according to the state's Department of Natural Resources.
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- Bel Air mayor helped draft the plan and says it does not take autonomy from counties
- One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted
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