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Archive of Maryland on Wednesday July 01, 2009
MD: School suspensions limited in Md.
Maryland public school officials can no longer suspend or expel students solely for being chronically late or absent under a new state law that takes effect today. Read More
MD: Federal grant will help juvenile offenders get jobs
Maryland received a $3.1 million federal grant to help young offenders in Baltimore enter the work force, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Tuesday. Read More
Financial crisis torments states
(Updated 11:29 a.m. EDT, July 1, 2009) California may begin issuing IOUs this week because of the state’s unresolved budget crisis. But government disruptions were averted at least temporarily in five other states that missed a July 1 deadline for closing billion-dollar budget gaps. Read More
MD: Md. to attack warrant backlog with $1 million of stimulus
More than $1 million in federal stimulus funding will be directed to pay overtime for police officers and sheriff's deputies to reduce a backlog of outstanding warrants, Gov. Martin O'Malley announced Tuesday. Read More
MD: New state laws will take effect tomorrow
Businesses that violate liquor laws will face steeper penalties and the local tourism bureau will be on track for a funding boost under new state laws set to take effect tomorrow. Read More
US: Colorado the least obese state
WASHINGTON—Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers. Read More
US: Community colleges see demand spike, funding slip
Hundreds of thousands of students are likely to be turned away from low-cost community colleges across the country over the next year because of funding cuts at the very time that record numbers of students are flocking to the open-admission schools, according to education officials. Read More |
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