https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/bs-md-pol-ga-foster-children-hospitals-20200203-i3r5anhvxfgzna44nxhavu6dhe-story.html By Pamela Wood Baltimore Sun | Feb 03, 2020 | 7:41 PM Maryland social services officials have left foster children in hospitals and psychiatric units — often for weeks at a time — when there are no group homes or foster families available. The situation has drawn the attention of state lawmakers, including Del. […]
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I hope you had a great holiday season with family, good friends, and good food. The 2020 Legislative Session is fast approaching, and I wanted to provide you with an update with what I intend to work over the course of the next 90 days. This email is long, so I apologize, but it wouldn’t […]
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https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/bs-md-pol-staffing-complaints-20191029-6m72nukui5bo5m7alosk3t6jvi-story.html By PAMELA WOOD BALTIMORE SUN | OCT 29, 2019 | 3:34 PM Jason Suggs, an official with the AFSCME Union for state employees, discusses staffing issues during a press conference in Annapolis on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019. (Pamela Wood) Members of the largest union of state government employees, who are locked in a contract dispute with the […]
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https://www2.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgportalapps/Press_Detail.aspx?Item_ID=23589 Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich on Oct. 28 led a group of County Councilmembers, Federal, State and municipal officials, as well as Montgomery business leaders, to express their disappointment and concern with the Maryland Department of Transportation’s decision to eliminate the Corridor Cities Transitway (CCT) from the draft of the State 2020-25 Consolidated Transportation […]
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https://www.mrt.com/news/article/MD-lawmakers-officials-union-meet-on-staffing-14572619.php Elliott Davis, Capital News Service ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — State union employees told lawmakers Tuesday they are concerned that staff shortages — of about 2,600, according to a 2018 study — are causing safety issues, including some injuries, for employees at certain agencies. Maryland lawmakers, state officials and union members gathered in Annapolis to […]
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By Letters to the Editor September 22, 2019 at 6:48 p.m. EDT Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) has refused to release funding for the Prescription Drug Affordability Board, and he has not named the administration-appointed members as required by the legislation that created the board. In recent days, he has signaled a path forward through an existing commission appointed […]
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Did the Hogan administration just effectively kill a long-debated public transit project in Montgomery County? Or was the proposal already on life support without key Montgomery County policymakers and transit advocates knowing or acknowledging it? Either way, county lawmakers sounded the alarm Monday when they noticed that the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) was pulling […]
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The future of the Corridor Cities Transitway (CCT) is in doubt after the Maryland Department of Transportation removed the project from its latest list of priorities. The most recent draft of the Consolidated Transportation Plan, a detailed agenda for statewide transit projects, states that the CCT has been removed from the development and evaluation phase. […]
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