Day: October 1, 2013

Md. General Assembly races: October update on candidates

This monthly roundup covers Maryland election news in September and lists every candidate who has filed and most who have announced. Each district is listed by county and, in most cases, incumbents with their status. The districts reflect the new district lines, which have placed some incumbents into a different district.

State Roundup, October 1, 2013

Today, many new state laws take effect, so mind your cellphone use while driving and forget about the shark fin soup for lunch among others; public officials beware that the state’s Open Meetings law is tougher today than it was yesterday; while the gun law takes effect today, the state is in court defending challenges to it; prison recidivism rate has dropped; the state’s Medicaid program sees a 95% error rate in seeking some disability reimbursements; Obamacare kicks in, as does the federal shutdown; Day 2 of the Capital-Gazette’s Troubled Waters series takes a look missed deadlines for cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay and at Lake Tahoe and what its advocates did to clean it up; and gubernatorial candidate Gansler wants casino take to help pay for preschool for poor kids.

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