Facing a $1 million cut, the Maryland Department of Aging is focusing on providing more at-home services to keep the elderly out of costly nursing homes.
Coming on the heels of last year’s $4 million budget cuts, the $1 million cut in the governor’s fiscal 2014 budget is 2% of the department’s overall budget. At the same time, the department is confronting the needs of the rapidly-aging Baby Boomer generation.
This week should prove to be one of the busiest in this legislative session, with gun control, the death penalty repeal and transportation funding on the table; a gun control rally Friday drew hundreds as the issues moved to the House of Delegates; death penalty repeal supporters in the Senate turn away amendment, will resume work tonight; Gov. O’Malley may introduce transportation funding legislation; one legislator devotes session to cutting corporate tax rate; bill would restrict use of DNA in police work; bill eyes expanding homeschoolers’ use of public school services; law proposed to legalize refillable wine bottles; and upbeat mood as Neuman inhabits Arundel County exec’s office.
The Referendum Integrity Act, a bill that’s been lambasted as voter suppression, contains numerous clauses that could potentially disqualify thousands of online petition signature pages before they are even signed. But the chairman of the subcommittee in charge of HB493, Del. Jon Cardin, who is also a co-sponsor, says his goal in reforming petition legislation is not to make the process more difficult.
The Gazette of Politics and Business, the only paid publication in a chain of weeklies in Montgomery, Prince George’s and Frederick counties, is apparently dropping much of the politics and becoming the Business Gazette, with one reporter covering State House news from a Montgomery County perspective.
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