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Maryland Senate passes health care implementation bill
Andy Brownfield
Published: Wed, Mar 27, 2013
ANNAPOLIS -- The Maryland Senate passed a bill Wednesday to further the implementation of President Obama's federal health care overhaul. The measure, passed 35-11, expands Medicaid eligibility and provides funding for the Maryland health exchange, among other changes. Maryland is at the...
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Miller: Maryland gas tax could pass this week
Andy Brownfield
Published: Wed, Mar 27, 2013
ANNAPOLIS -- The leader of Maryland's Senate told reporters Wednesday that he expects a bill that would provide much-needed revenue for transportation projects to pass his chamber as early as this week. Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr., D-Prince George's and Calvert counties, said...
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Maryland residents face $2.3 billion in new taxes under Gov. Martin O'Malley
Andy Brownfield
Published: Tue, Mar 26, 2013
ANNAPOLIS -- Maryland residents face a 4-cent increase in a gallon of gasoline come July, the latest in a succession of 32 new and increased taxes and fees that Gov. Martin O'Malley has imposed since he took office in 2007. The most recent of the $2.3 billion in higher taxes came last year,...
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Senate panel questions use of money for transit
Andy Brownfield
Published: Tue, Mar 26, 2013
ANNAPOLIS -- Members of a Senate panel voiced concern Tuesday that money funded by a proposed increase in the state gasoline tax would go toward mass transit instead of roads. Members of the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee questioned whether the projected $4.3 billion that would be raised...
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Md. Senate gives preliminary OK to bill banning sex between students, school staff
Andy Brownfield
Published: Tue, Mar 26, 2013
ANNAPOLIS -- The Maryland Senate gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a measure criminalizing sexual contact between teenage students and school staff. The measure would make any sexual act between students and full-time permanent school employees a fourth-degree sexual offense punishable by...
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Maryland House approves medical marijuana
Andy Brownfield
Published: Mon, Mar 25, 2013
ANNAPOLIS - Maryland would join its neighbors in the District in allowing marijuana for medical use under a bill passed with little opposition by the House of Delegates on Monday. The legislation, which passed 100-28, would create a process for medical marijuana to be prescribed and...
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Senate OKs licenses for illegal immigrants
Andy Brownfield
Published: Mon, Mar 25, 2013
ANNAPOLIS -- The Maryland Senate on Monday passed a measure to allow illegal immigrants to keep, renew and apply for state driver's licenses. The bill passed 29-18 largely along party lines with Republican objection. It would reverse a state law passed in 2009 to outlaw driver's licenses for...
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Battle brewing in Maryland over driver's licenses for illegal immigrants
Andy Brownfield
Published: Sun, Mar 24, 2013
Senate poised to approve bill ANNAPOLIS -- A battle is brewing in the General Assembly over whether to grant driver's licenses to Marylanders who are in the country illegally. Vocal opponents of the bill equate it to rewarding people for breaking the law and warn the measure could turn...
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License could not be used to buy firearms
Andy Brownfield
Published: Sun, Mar 24, 2013
ANNAPOLIS -- The state Senate's top Republican amended a bill to allow illegal immigrants to obtain Maryland driver's licenses to make sure those licenses couldn't be used to purchase firearms. Senate Minority Leader E.J. Pipkin, R-Eastern Shore, said his concern arose from the licenses being...
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3-Minute Interview: Fitness director Adriane Morgan
Andy Brownfield
Published: Sat, Mar 23, 2013
Level isn't the type of fitness club where you go, plug in your headphones and spend an hour on the treadmill. It's more like the kind of place people go to do something, like learn to break dance or do yoga while suspended feet above the ground. In fact, it's the only place in Montgomery County...
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