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Lawmakers differ over lead poisoning bill
Legislation that would expand Maryland's efforts to curb childhood lead poisoning remains in limbo, as House and Senate members strive to settle their differences over whether to give landlords who follow state law any legal protection against lawsuits...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Litigation and Regulation, Painting, Trials, Justice System
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Mixed green bag: Bay bills advance, energy measures stumble
In a legislative session marked by discord over taxes and gambling, lawmakers came together to pass three major bills aimed at boosting Chesapeake Bay cleanup efforts. They failed to agree, however, on other environmental priorities - a bill to...
Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Environmental Issues, Energy Resources, Crime, Law and Justice, Painting
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Lawmakers enact lead poisoning bill
A bill that would require landlords with units built before 1978 to protect their tenants from lead-paint hazards cleared the General Assembly tonight, along with a provision urging courts to penalize baseless litigation over the problem. HB644, approved...Tags: Ronald N. Young, Crime, Law and Justice, Housing and Urban Planning, Allan H. Kittleman, Painting
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Mom: Rental home likely gave my son lead poisoning
An Indianapolis mother is concerned after learning her son has lead poisoning, likely from the contaminated rental home they had been staying in. According to documents from the Marion County Health Department, the home Amanda Melton is now renting...
Tags: Bank of America Corp., Rentals, Condos and Houses, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues
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Lead poisoning: Be aware of possibility for grazing cattle
Here's a scenario that I would run into every so often in practice: a producer has some calves to put out on grass over the summer and has located a new place by some old outbuildings for these calves to clean up. Everything is going fine until one day he...Tags: Arts, Arts and Culture, Agriculture, South Dakota State University, Death
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State lawmaker: Graziano said in January deal was near for city housing authority to pay lead judgments
By now, Del. Samuel I. Rosenberg says he expected big news from the Housing Authority of Baltimore City — that it had found a way to resolve the millions of dollars in court-ordered judgments it owes former public housing residents who suffered lead...Tags: Lawyers, Housing and Urban Planning, Crime, Law and Justice, Litigation and Regulation, Trials
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The rare and ethereal armonica is coming to Baltimore
Dennis James, a heralded armonica virtuoso who lives in upstate New York, will visit Baltimore next weekend to be a soloist with two organizations.
The story goes that in 1761, when Benjamin Franklin invented the glass instrument he dubbed the "armonica,...Tags: Artists, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Dolly Parton, Benjamin Franklin, Concerts
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Lawmakers gird for renewed debate on lead poisoning
With efforts to reduce lead poisoning among children at a crossroads, Maryland lawmakers are wrestling with proposals to expand state regulation of home sales, rentals and repairs to reduce youngsters' exposure to the toxic metal.
But the biggest...Tags: Lawyers, Housing and Urban Planning, Crime, Law and Justice, Litigation and Regulation, Disease Prevention
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Landlords, lawyers debate lead-paint fund
Landlords and lawyers differed sharply Wednesday over legislation that would create a state-run fund to compensate victims of lead-paint poisoning.
A string of rental property owners and real estate investors from Baltimore and some other parts of...Tags: Rentals, Lawyers, Arts, Annapolis, Arts and Culture
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St. Patrick's Day collectibles may be next big thing
St. Patrick's Day has been celebrated in Ireland for more than 1,000 years. The modern celebration on March 17 is a religious holiday in Ireland, with church in the morning, then a parade and dancing, eating and drinking later in the day. American...Tags: Halloween, New York City, Republic of Ireland, Taiwan, Austria
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Feds cut off funds to fight lead poisoning
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has finally served formal notice of what has been widely speculated - that the federal government is cutting off the grants it's been giving states to fight childhood lead poisoning. In a March 7 letterTags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Guthrie explains pulling livability code
Editor: First, I want to thank all those who were in attendance for the hearing on Bill No. 12-02 regardless of which side of the issue you are supporting, who have taken time from their busy schedules who wanted to address the Livability Code. I want to...Tags: Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Crime, Law and Justice
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