Schaefer pushes hearings on year round schools plan
Gov William Donald Schaefer urged statewide hearings on year round schools during the 43rd Maryland Association of Counties meeting. A task force backed higher state school construction funding and a revised share formula with Frederick County set at 65 percent. He proposed a pilot in one county and signaled support for $75 million yearly as a starting point.
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Maryland
William Donald Schaefer
Maryland Association of Counties
Frederick County
Schaefer
Noel T. Farmer
Ronald Sundergill
Board of Education
Clinton
Gore
Mr. Gore
Officials call end to unfunded mandates at MACO session
Ocean City Maryland officials at the MACO conference urged ending unfunded federal mandates. Larry Naake of the National Association of Counties criticized decentralization that shifts costs to states without funding. He warned of reduced accountability as Congress passes mandates like the Americans with Disabilities Act and Clean Air Act. Catherine Riley noted Medicaid drives about 70 percent of Maryland’s $1 billion budget growth over three years.
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Ocean City
Larry Naake
National Association of Counties
Naake
Congress
Catherine Riley
Bureau of Governmental Research
University of Maryland
Maryland
Women sought for national heart study in Maryland
Local doctors recruit women for the HERS trial to test if postmenopausal hormone therapy lowers heart disease risk. The randomized study by UC San Francisco and Johns Hopkins aims to enroll over 2,300 women with existing heart disease, excluding hysterectomy patients and those on hormones.
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Annapolis
University of California
San Francisco
Johns Hopkins University
Robert Biern
Biern
Weisbergs Honored at Hood College Convocation
Hood College awarded honorary Doctor of Humane Letters to Harold Weisberg and Lillian Stone Weisberg at Coffman Chapel. Martha Church praised their work on government documents and JFK and MLK assassination research. Dr. Gerald McKnight cited Weisberg’s focus on exposing government secrecy and Warren Commission flaws.
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JFK
Harold Weisberg
Hood College
Martha Church
Weisberg
David Hein
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