Maryland Politics
Baker sacks Pr. George’s health chief
A day after officials announced plans for a new $600 million hospital and health-care network, the county’s top health official has been asked to step down.
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) took aim Friday at former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, saying the leading GOP presidential candidate had “joined the dinosaur wing of the Republican Party and endorsed extreme, job-killing policies.”
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley chides Republicans at a meeting of the National Governors Association as he starts to make a name for himself among national party activists.
Maryland and Prince George’s officials plan to make it official Thursday: there is a deal for a new health care system that will salvage some of Prince George’s Hospital Center .
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) took aim Friday at former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, saying the leading GOP presidential candidate had “joined the dinosaur wing of the Republican Party and endorsed extreme, job-killing policies.”
A day after officials announced plans for a new $600 million hospital and health-care network, the county’s top health official has been asked to step down.
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley on Friday said a good deal of work must still be done to pass a bill legalizing gay unions.
Prince George’s County will get its first teaching hospital by 2017, state and county officials announced.
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) will formally share his plans Friday to make legalization of same-sex unions part of his legislative package next year, aides said.
Gov. Martin O’Malley and Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III on Thursday announced a multimillion-dollar deal which would bring a new hospital to the county.
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