Maryland

Veronica Deramous Arrested: Woman Tried To Cut Baby From Homeless Woman's Stomach, Police Say

AP | By NAFEESA SYEED | Posted 12.08.2009 | Home

Read More: Homeless Woman, Teka Adams, Box Cutter, Cut Unborn Baby, Miracle Sky, Veronica Deramous, Crime, Cesarean Section, Unborn Baby, Suitland, Baby Attack, Maryland, Pregnant, Home News

WASHINGTON -- A 29-year-old homeless woman has given birth to a baby girl after, police said, she was befriended by a Maryland woman who held her capt...

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The Unemployment Extension Depends Just as Much on the States as on the White House

David Adkins | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business

Read More: State Government, Virginia, Texas, Unemployment, Louisiana, Maryland, Indiana, Unemployment Extension, Business News
David Adkins

Despite encouraging signs of growth in the economy the unemployment crisis is going to be with us for a long time to come. It has left states caught in a vice between plummeting revenues and rising needs.

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Teen With Amnesia Found In Times Square Is Identified

AOL News | Evan Buxbaum, CNN | Posted 10.25.2009 | New York

Read More: Lost Teen, Shelter, Robin Hobb, Maryland, Fool's Fate, Amber, Missing Teenager, New York, Amnesia, Covenant House, Times Square, Amnesia Teen, Washington State, Teen, Police, Rian, New York News

Authorities have identified a teenager believed to be suffering from amnesia who was found on the streets of New York two weeks ago. Police say a CNN...

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New Medical Marijuana Policy: Obama Administration Will Not Seek Arrests For People Following State Laws

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pain, White House, Marijuana, Marijuana Policy Project, Orgeon, Doj, Eric Holder, Decriminalization, Nevada, Marijuana Laws, Obama, War on Drugs, Patients, New Mexico, Colorado, Prescriptions, California, Suppliers, Washington State, State Laws, Weed, Michigan, Medicine, Maryland, Montana, Users, Medical Marijuana, Vermont, Rhode Island, Justice Department, Drug Enforcement Agency, Maine, New Medical Marijuana Policy, Health, Hawaii, US Attorneys, Alaska, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under...

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Maryland's Commitment to Advancing Stem Cell Research

Gov. Martin O'Malley | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Milken Institute, Governor Martin O'Malley, Jeffrey Sachs, Martin O'Malley, Maryland, Jobs, Science, Biotech, Barack Obama, California, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Industry, Health Care Reform, Stem Cell Research, Technology, Medicine, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News
Gov. Martin O'Malley

Last week, we announced that Maryland was entering into a new partnership with the State of California to collaborate on stem cell projects.

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Free Speech and Funeral Picketing:

Eugene Volokh | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cartoons, First Amendment, Synder v. Phelps, Fourth Circuit Court, Maryland, Liability, Phelpsians, Politics News
Eugene Volokh

The Fourth Circuit has just reversed the $5 million intentional infliction of emotional distress and invasion of privacy verdict against the group who picketed the funeral of a slain soldier.

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New DNC Obama Ad: Get "Fired Up" and "Ready To Go" About No Public Option

Jane Hamsher | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: GOP House Seats, 1994, Public Option, Rahm Emanuel, Max Baucus, Ad, Dnc, Barack Obama, Maryland, Obama Health Care, Obama Public Option, Politics News
Jane Hamsher

Passing the Baucus bill means stabbing the base in the back and destroying 2010 turnout for the midterms, which is pretty much what NAFTA did in 1994.

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Bermuda, U.S. Coast Warned As Hurricane Bill Stays Offshore

AP | CHRIS GILLETTE | Posted 09.21.2009 | Home

Read More: Bermuda, Hurricane Bill Forecast, Virginia, Florida, Maryland, Hurricane Bill, Georgia, South Carolina, Coastal Flooding, North Carolina, Home News

HAMILTON, Bermuda — Hurricane Bill slammed punishing waves into Bermuda's coastal seawalls as it spun Friday over the open Atlantic, spreading b...

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16 Shot In Baltimore, Including 12 At Cookout

AP | BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 08.27.2009 | Home

Read More: Baltimore Shootings, Baltimore Cookout, Shootings, Baltimore, Crime, Maryland, Home News

BALTIMORE — A gunman burst into a backyard cookout held in the memory of two men who'd been shot to death a year earlier, wounding 12 people in ...

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Maryland Builds Clean Diesel Plant

hometownannapolis.com | Posted 07.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Future Fuel, Future of Fuels, Future of Fuel, Maryland, Green News

Three large pieces of construction equipment sitting outside the Cox Creek Dredged Material Containment Facility represent the future of diesel emissi...

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A Sea Change in the Mid-Atlantic -- Many Hands Makes Light Work

Sarah Chasis | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Governor O'Malley, Governor Markell, Governor Kaine, Marco, Governor Paterson, Delaware, Maryland, Offshore Wind, Shipping, Secretary Salazar, New York, Offshore Renewables, Virginia, New Jersey, Secretary of Interior, Governor Corzine, Fishing, Mid-Atlantic, Oceans, Atlantic Ocean, Mid-Atlanticregionalcouncilonoceans, Green News
Sarah Chasis

Today at noon I will witness the dawning of an important new council dedicated to protecting our precious and threatened Atlantic Ocean: the Governors' Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on Oceans.

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Mid-Atlantic Governors to Sign Landmark Agreement to Protect Ocean

Sarah Chasis | Posted 06.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Mid-Atlantic, Shipping, Virginia, Delaware, Fishing, Oceans, Marco, Maryland, Wind Power, Governor O'Malley, Governor Markell, Governor Kaine, Governor Paterson, Offshore Wind, Secretary Salazar, New York, Offshore Renewables, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on Oceans, Secretary of Interior, Governor Corzine, Atlantic Ocean, Green News
Sarah Chasis

Our oceans don't recognize borders. That's why it's so significant that these five Governors will agree to reach across state lines to protect them.

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Village Green: Federal Stimulus Threatened to Overrun Small Town with Sprawl

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Sustainability, Sprawl, Economic Stimulus Package, Smart Growth, Maryland, Green News
F. Kaid Benfield

New development should pay its own way, or at least make a justification as to why the subsidy is in the public interest when all factors, including the consequences of sprawl, are considered.

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Maryland Unveils the Mikulski Express

Gov. Martin O'Malley | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Governor Martin O'Malley, Public Transit, Infrastructure, Sustainability, Barbara Mikulski, Maryland, Transportation, Politics News
Gov. Martin O'Malley

Starting tonight, Sen. Barbara Mikulski can make her daily commute home from Washington to Baltimore on a locomotive that bears her name: the Senator Barb "Go Green" Express.

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Christopher Wood, Maryland Dad Who Killed Family, Had $450K In Debt

AP | ALEX DOMINGUEZ | Posted 05.22.2009 | Home

Read More: Christopher Wood, Maryland Family Killed, Frederick Maryland, Maryland, Home News

FREDERICK, Md. — A Maryland father who shot his wife and three children to death and then killed himself struggled with depression, had $450,000...

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Maryland Needs to Repeal the Death Penalty -- Now

Gov. Martin O'Malley | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Governor Martin O'Malley, Capital Punishment, Baltimore, Martin O'Malley, Crime, Maryland, Punishment, Death Penalty, Politics News
Gov. Martin O'Malley

I've asked Marylanders to urge their state senators to end capital punishment in our state. I believe we will fail our children and ourselves if we allow these executions to continue.

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State Government 2.0: How Technology Will Help Maryland Make the Most of the Stimulus

Gov. Martin O'Malley | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Governor Martin O'Malley, Economic Stimulus Package, Martin O'Malley, Maryland, Economic Recovery, Stimulus, Barack Obama, Economy, Politics News
Gov. Martin O'Malley

By integrating data across government agencies and systems, StateStat will give Marylanders a holistic way to look at problems -- and potential solutions -- that simply weren't available to us before.

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Stimulus: Republicans Screw Car Makers and Buyers

Steve Parker | Posted 03.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Lexus LF-A, Captive Imports, Maryland, President Barack Obama, Detroit Three, Ford Taurus, Cars, Congress, Joe Biden, Toyota, Senator Barbara Mikulski, Code Pink, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Japan, Chrysler, Tokyo Motor Show, Economic Stimulus Package, Tesla Roadster, Wall Street, Bob Nardelli, Republicans, Uaw, Senate, Business News
Steve Parker

The bill passed by Congress yesterday throws a one-two punch at our auto industry and consumers.

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Kidstock with Paul McCartney, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, Moby, Sheryl Crow, Ben Harper, Donovan and... David Lynch?

Mike Ragogna | Posted 03.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Mary Tyler Moore, Maryland, Wild at Heart, The Beach Boys, Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Obama, Sir Paul McCartney, Inland Empire, The National Institutes of Health, Deepak Chopra, New York School System, The Beatles, Rishikesh, Dr. John Hagelin, Woodstock, Russell Simmons, Rishikesh India, David Lynch, The Films of David Lynch, Mia Farrow, Silver Spring, Radio City Music Hall, Moby, Paul Horn, Mike Love, Maharishi, President Barack Obama, Paul McCartney, Blue Velvet, Ben Harper, The Elephant Man, Parade Magazine, New York City, New York, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Sheryl Crow, Clint Eastwood, Dr. William Stixrud, Silver Spring Maryland, Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam, Twin Peaks, Laura Dern, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Tm, India, New York Schools, Heather Graham, Transcendental Meditation, Dr. Mark Liponis, Dune, The David Lynch Foundation, Donovan, Eraserhead, Stephen Collins, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

This concert will be about the music, but its statement of solidarity and support for upliftment in education could be the beginning of yet another American wave of consciousness raising.

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Michael Steele's Challenge

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Michael Steele, Mitch McConnell, Wall Street, Rush Limbaugh, Andy Card, Stimulus Package, Rudolph Giuliani, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Republican National Committee, Michael Steele Rnc, Rnc, Steele, Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele, Rnc Chair, Maryland, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

There exists a leadership gap in the Republican party with no strong frontrunner for 2012 and evidence of growing division between the leading candidates. Steele must fill this leadership vacuum.

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The New RNC Chairman -- Providing Full "Race Card" Default Insurance

Carl Jeffers | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republican National Committee, Ieutenant Governor Michael Steele, Michael Steele Rnc, Rnc, Steele, Michael Steele, Rnc Chair, Race Card, Maryland, Politics News
Carl Jeffers

Selecting Steele is designed to help position the Republicans more advantageously in their effort to fight off charges of "using the race card" when their attacks on the president become really tough.

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The Meaning of Michael Steele

Michael Fauntroy | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: GOP Southern Strategy, Republican National Committee, GOP Race, Michael Steele Rnc, Rnc, Steele, Michael Steele, Rnc Chair, Maryland, Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele, Politics News
Michael Fauntroy

It's hard to remember the last time a party chairman's race has been so closely followed, but the reality is that Steele's win really doesn't mean much.

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Steele, the GOP and Confronting the Southern Strategy

Simon Rosenberg | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Steele, Hispanics, Gop, Immigration, Rnc, Republican National Committee, Michael Steele Rnc, Steele, Rnc Chair, Maryland, Politics News
Simon Rosenberg

That fact that Steele won the RNC chairmanship is a hopeful sign that the GOP has begun to confront its shameful exploitation of race as a national political strategy.

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Steele's Slippery Slope

Charles D. Ellison | Posted 03.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Steele, Gop, Rnc, Maryland, Republicans, Black, Conservatives, Steele, African Americans, Republican National Committee, Michael Steele Rnc, Rnc Chair, Politics News
Charles D. Ellison

Republicans needed a public relations break more so than a Michael Steele, a fact that will show itself much sooner rather than later.

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5 Facts About the New RNC Chairman

Judd Legum | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Steele, Republican National Committee, Rnc, Maryland, Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele, Steele, Michael Steele Rnc, Rnc Chair, Politics News
Judd Legum

Former Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele was just elected chairman of the RNC. Here are five facts about the new leader of the Republican party.

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