Environmentalists barely pass legislature
Jul 28, 2012 Comments Off adminReposted from the Daily Record By Alexander Pyles [caption id="attachment_837" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Del. Tom Hucker (left) speaks with Environment Maryland Director Tommy Landers at Tuesday’s news conference atop Federal Hill Park. (Special to The Daily Record / Eddie Chen)"][/caption] In the best session for environmental legislation in four years, members of the General Assembly still barely earned a passing ...
Continue ReadingGeneral Assembly approves stormwater fee for nine counties
Apr 20, 2012 Comments Off adminRepublished from MarylandReporter.com: http://marylandreporter.com/2012/04/10/general-assembly-approves-stormwater-fee-for-nine-counties/ Despite a Republican filibuster attempt in the Senate, the General Assembly successfully passed legislation that would implement a stormwater pollution fee to raise revenue to cleanup the Chesapeake Bay. Approved by the Senate and House of Delegates minutes before the end of the legislative session, the bill requires nine counties and Baltimore City ...
Continue ReadingMaryland Leads the Nation in Banning Arsenic Products In Chicken Feed
Apr 12, 2012 Comments Off adminRepublished from the Afro: http://www.afro.com/sections/news/Baltimore/story.htm?storyid=74680 Maryland is now the first state in the nation to officially ban Roxarsone, a product added to chicken feed to prevent disease and produce fatter chickens. Senate Bill 207/ House Bill 167 was one of many bills passed over the weekend as the Maryland General Assembly rushed to complete work by ...
Continue ReadingMaryland legislators consider 6 anti-human trafficking laws
Mar 28, 2012 Comments Off adminRepublished from the Gazette: http://www.gazette.net/article/20120328/NEWS/703289446/1007/maryland-legislators-consider-6-anti-human-trafficking-laws&template=gazette Although few argue that human trafficking shouldn’t be punished, one Maryland legislator has found out not everyone agrees on the appropriate penalty. For the past three years, Del. Kathleen Dumais (D-Dist. 15) of Rockville has introduced some version of a bill that would allow police to seize money and property from convicted ...
Continue ReadingMaryland proposes ban on ‘forced bundling’ by insurers
Mar 26, 2012 Comments Off adminRepublished from the Baltimore Sun: http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-03-26/business/bs-bz-ambrose-bundling-20120326_1_allstate-auto-policy-consumer-advocate Many consumers voluntarily buy more than one type of insurance from the same company so they can get a discount on premiums. But what if an insurer wouldn't sell you a homeowner's policy unless you also purchased auto insurance from it, too? Some insurers are doing just that. The Fayetteville Observer reported early ...
Continue ReadingMaryland State Delegate Tom Hucker joins Foundation Board of Trustees
Oct 21, 2011 Comments Off adminRepublished from Montgomery Parks Foundation State Delegate Tom Hucker joins Montgomery Parks Foundation Board of Trustees The Montgomery Parks Foundation Board of Trustees elected Tom Hucker at their September meeting. His appointment was approved by the Montgomery County Planning Board on Thursday, October 20, 2011. Mr. Hucker has been a member of the Maryland House of ...
Continue ReadingMd. lawmakers plead to Congress for mercy
Jul 28, 2011 Comments Off adminRepublished from the Washington Examiner Maryland state lawmakers say members of Congress are pointing a "double-barreled shotgun" at their state by threatening not to raise the debt ceiling. "It is possible no state would be hit as hard as Maryland by a failure to raise the debt ceiling," said Sen. Jennie Forehand, D-Rockville, as Maryland faces a ...
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Chicken drug pulled from market amid arsenic worries
Jun 9, 2011 Comments Off adminRepublished from the Washington Post By John Wagner [caption id="attachment_639" align="alignright" width="296" caption="Del. Tom Hucker (D-Montgomery) on the opening day of the 2011 legislative session. (Photo by Mark Gail/The Washington Post)"][/caption] Some Maryland lawmakers sought to seize the moment Wednesday as word spread that a drug given to chickens for decades is being pulled off the marketafter federal ...
Continue ReadingThousands of cars drive past stopped school buses
Mar 17, 2011 Comments Off adminRepublished from the Washington Examiner Thousands of drivers in Montgomery and Prince George's counties have been ignoring stopped school buses, according to a survey by the Maryland State Department of Education.More than 1,600 drivers bypassed stopped school buses in Montgomery County on a single day in February, for the second-highest in the state, according to the ...
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New storm, same story: “Like camping out”
Feb 17, 2011 Comments Off adminRepublished from the Takoma Voice No big surprise -- the icy blizzard of January 26 left half of Takoma Park in the dark. Branches snapped from trees and broke power lines, and on some streets huge, fully grown trees fell. This was a Wednesday evening. Kathy Porter, the ex-mayor, was without electricity and heat at her house ...
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