The Maryland House of Delegates has a new caucus, and it’s members are excited, rowdy and purple.
At least half of the members of the House who came to Friday’s session were decked out in purple, with purple ties and sweaters, purple scarves, purple shirts and quite a few Ravens jerseys dominating the chamber to root for the Baltimore Ravens.
Bob Caret leaving Towson U.; state suing feds over Medevac crash; teacher pension shift to counties may not be now, but soon; Snowden doesn’t get PBJ for DUI after all; dime-a-drink gaining momentum; Asti flier deemed misleading; gay marriage, plastic bag surcharge, wind power on the agenda.
Felicia Howard talked with new and old Senate leaders after the first General Assembly session opened on Wednesday. Speaking with President Pro Tem Nathaniel McFadden and freshman Sen. Ronald Young, Howard discussed historic relevance and plans for the 90-day session.
In the next four years, Maryland’s state courts will be much less cluttered with paper, as the judiciary introduces electronic filing for documents.
But a Senate committee chairman complained about the long time to implement the new system.
Maryland is lagging behind neighbors Delaware and Virginia when it comes to monitoring the sale of some prescription narcotics, and Gov. Martin O’Malley told his final pre-inaugural forum that he finds that unacceptable.
At the Public Safety and Security Forum Wednesday in Annapolis, Washington County Sheriff Doug Mullendorf told O’Malley and the room of about 300 people about Maryland’s inadequacy in monitoring the sales of oxycontin and oxycodone, which are Schedule II narcotics, when compared with neighboring states. Mullendorf said he has noticed the number of people addicted to these drugs growing in past years. The other law enforcement officials in the room agreed.
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