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“Obama’s plan basically will push people to have coverage and put some penalties in if they don’t have coverage. It’s making what’s going on now a little bit better,” said Hopkins Dr. Mark Donowitz.

“Obama comes right out and …

Baltimore Sun
Nearly a decade after the Navy retired and dismantled 19 communications towers along the Severn River, a fledgling energy company is planning to build wind turbines that would turn the near-constant breeze there into electricity.

David Murrin, a merchant …

Annapolis Capital
Maryland congressional campaigns refocused this week on the stalled economy and the unpopular bailout bill that ricocheted through Congress before passing Friday.

“They’re bailing out the wrong people,” said Creston Long, a history professor at Salisbury University, describing the …

Examiner
The Odenton community finally could secure the money it needs to expand roads and utilities to handle the incoming work force at Fort Meade if the state approves a zoning change.

Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold is requesting …

Baltimore Sun
The National Guard should have a seat at the table with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Sen. Joe Biden told a convention of National Guard members at the Baltimore Convention Center yesterday.

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Biden vowed that the Democrats would …

Examiner
The Department of Defense continues to reject a federal order detailing how to clean up contamination at Fort Meade despite stern demands from U.S. senators Thursday for a speedy resolution.

“If it was operating in good faith, [the Defense Department] …

Laura Vozzella
Washingtonian magazine’s annual “Best & Worst of Congress” survey is out, and the Maryland delegation gets plenty of ink. In good ways and bad.

Based on a survey of top Capitol Hill aides, Washingtonian ranked Barbara Mikulski the Senate’s …

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WBAL.com
Congressman Roscoe Bartlett is ridiculing part of the FBI’s explanation for the 2001 anthrax attacks.

And the Maryland Republican says he’s skeptical about the agency’s conclusion that biodefense researcher Bruce Ivins grew the …

WBAL.com
Federal immigration officials have arrested 45 people in Anne Arundel County on illegal immigration charges.

County police chief James Teare says search warrants were executed at an Annapolis painting business and 15 homes where employees lived early Monday.

Teare says the …

Hagerstown Herald-Mail
Federal immigration agents took custody of 10 illegal immigrants after a traffic stop Sunday on northbound Interstate 81 at Maugans Avenue, Maryland State Police said in a news release.

Maryland State Police stopped a 1999 Toyota minivan from California …