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Fiber optics a boon, from classroom to operating room

May 30, 2019 at 11:23 p.m.

Leasing office space in this economy can be a challenge, especially in older buildings, but Taylor Fields is working on getting an edge: a super-fast fiber-optic broadband connection. "One of...

One Maryland Broadband Network facility opens

May 30, 2019 at 11:23 p.m.

Federal, state and local officials gathered in an Elkridge industrial park Monday morning to mark the opening of a key hub for the Central Maryland portion of a $158 million...

BRAC may create new jobs for poor

August 18, 2019 at 3:42 p.m.

With thousands of defense-related jobs coming to Maryland in the next few years, local social services officials see a golden opportunity for poor people to get better jobs, especially in...

Homebuyers fume at tax differences

March 29, 2019 at 3:19 p.m.

When William "Billy" Kerr and his wife, Kerri, bought their 80-year-old bungalow on Anneslie Road near Towson this spring, property taxes were not a major concern. "When you're sitting there...

Worries of life without a bus

August 22, 2019 at 5:33 p.m.

Howard County officials and transit advocates are strongly opposing a state proposal to reduce and eliminate bus routes, but Vera Harris, 57, doesn't have time to do more than worry....

Md. works to retain secretive U.S. agency

August 18, 2019 at 3:11 p.m.

State leaders are working behind the scenes to halt the proposed shift of the secretive National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency from Bethesda to Virginia, arguing that if it must move, the operation...

Failed insurance legislation upsets union

March 29, 2019 at 12:38 p.m.

Upset over the last-minute, two-vote death of a General Assembly bill that would have extended health insurance to thousands of Marylanders, an international union is targeting state senators in Howard...

Excise tax approved by panel in House

March 29, 2019 at 5:58 a.m.

A key vote by a House of Delegates committee yesterday advanced a plan by Howard County Executive James N. Robey to generate more school construction money from a dedicated tax...

Oakland Mills High School students Jade Vaughn (left), Monica Holloway, Cherise Carpenter and Kimberly Sealey, all 16, talk before making a presentation to a House of Delegates committee on a bill that would widen the pool of bone marrow donors by lowering the eligible age to 16.

Howard teen-agers testify for bone marrow bill they conceived

March 27, 2019 at 6:01 p.m.

Wending their way into a crowded Maryland House of Delegates hearing room yesterday, the four 16-year-olds were worried they'd face tough questions from legislators. The bill the girls conceived and...

A long ride back from a weekend on the slopes

August 21, 2019 at 3:56 p.m.

Leave it to a 15-year-old boy to put things in perspective after a record-breaking snowstorm. Standing outside The Mall in Columbia next to one of nine huge luxury buses that...

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