Privacy fears rise over mandatory health disclosures for driver licenses
A reader questions the Motor Vehicle Administration plan to require drivers to report health problems and obtain physician certificates detailing onset, diagnosis, prognosis, and medications. The piece warns such data access risks invasions of privacy, liability issues, and potential treatment avoidance.
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Irvan Cregger
Woodsboro
Big Brother
Motor Vehicle Administration
MYA
MVA
Frederick Life and Heritage in a Former Mill Town
Roy Meachum reflects on Frederick's holiday colors and new developments, including a downtown supermarket and Talbott's at Everedy Square. He praises the city’s hospitality, historic walls, and intertwined communities, noting traditions, modernization tensions, and the deep roots of residents while welcoming newcomers who invest in the Quality of the Can.
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PTW
Carmack Jay's
Matt
Tiffany Wilms
Talbott
Everedy Square
Carroll Creek
Frederick
Bellung Leiter
Paul Gordon
Euthanasia clashes with Supreme Court over right to die
National debate intensifies as the Supreme Court weighs whether physicians may directly administer lethal injections. Courts support a right to die for terminally ill patients, but warn of broad risks. Ahead are warnings from medical groups and disability advocates, plus data from Duke University showing younger relatives favor legalization more than frail elderly patients.
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Supreme Court
Ninth
Second Circuit Courts of Appeals
Walter Deliinger
High Court
Nancy Dickey
Richardson
Texas
The
American Medical Association
Dickey
American Medical News
Archives of Internal Medicine
Duke University Sur
Jack Kevorkian
ACLU
Nat Hensolf
Enterprise Assoc
Local traffic hazards as rain melts to ice curb driving
State Police warned drivers to avoid highways after a day of rain frozen to ice and fog worsened conditions. A trooper assisted a broken down truck near Barracks B while a handbag containing money prompted a local pickup. Deer hunters counted five deer during a week in Oakland. Frederick County officials debated real estate tax assessments with calls for a cap on annual increases. A new three span bridge was set to replace an 1870 iron bridge over the Monocacy River, with plans to move the old structure nearby. Katharine Edgar Byron, Maryland’s first woman congresswoman and mother of Congressman Goodloe E. Byron, died at 74 in Washington.
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R.F. Stone
Barracks Bourd
U. Juana
Helen Brinkley
Washington, D.C
Barracks B
Monocacy River
MD. 77
Detour
Keymar
Donald L. Lewis
Little Hunting Creek
Catoctin Furnace
Katharine Edgar Byron
Maryland
Goodloe E. Byron
Frederick
Christmas Farm Verse of a Hero and His Tractor
Christmas Eve finds a farmer improving the lower pasture by moving three bales with a hesitant tractor. Battery charge and gas woes plague the task while errant horses ruin bales and a final bale collapses into a spice garden. The narrator, Jim Breuer, signs off from Wolfsyville.
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Iwarne
No guarantee of job security and ballot access debate
Letter discusses job security criticism of Rep Roscoe Bartlett and urges individuals to improve their value to employers. It profiles voter discrimination in Maryland, cites petition barriers and party access limits, and backs ballot access reform led by Maryland Reform Party figures. Russell T Forte signs.
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Roscoe Bartlett
U.S
Democratic National Committee
Maryland
Prince George's
Scott Becker
Marylanders For Democracy
Pat Cummings
Maryland Reform Party
Dean Achmad
Coalition For
Ballot Access Under Review in Maryland 1998 Elections
Marylanders must fix a serious ballot access problem before the 1998 elections. An opportunity appears as Maryland is cited for violating the Copenhagen Document. The note suggests corrective steps are needed to ensure ballot access compliance.
The Frederick News Letters to the Editor prompts readers
A clipped submission from The Frederick News outlines how to send letters to the editor. It mentions including writer name, residence, and business contact numbers, notes abridgement for space, and provides a postal address and a fax number for submission.
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Cannemarae
The
Frederick News
Post
Patrick St
Frederick
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