State Circle. Episode 214

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Date
1988-04-12
Summary
Maryland General Assembly meets in Annapolis each year for 90 days; State Circle reports weekly on the legislature during that period. This episode summarizes the 1988 session that: Enacted legislation that: authorized reorganization of the state's public colleges and universities under a single entity; banned smoking in public areas of Maryland retail stores; reduced the blood alcohol standards for drunk driving; banned the sale of Saturday Night Specials and other cheap handguns (the first law of its kind in the country); required counties to recycle; provided for the formal recognition of Native Americans. Also enacted emergency legislation authorizing intertrack betting between the Laurel and Pimlico racetracks. Reporters interview officials to get their perspective on this session: Gov. William Donald Schaefer; Senate President Thomas V. "Mike" Miller; and House Speaker R. Clayton Mitchell, Jr. There are man-on-the-street interviews about the productivity of this legislative session. Reporters Dave Durian, John Rydell, Sue Kopen, Tom Krisher (Annapolis Capitol), and Thomas W. Woldron (Evening Sun) close the program with a panel discussion.
Publisher
Maryland Public Television
Subject
Broadcasting, Communications
Locations
North America; United States of America
Collection
Public Broadcasting
Unit
Special Collections and University Archives
Rights Statement
In Copyright
Terms of Use
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Physical Description
00:29:39 hh:mm:ss; U-Matic
Notes
Maryland Public Television records
A guide to the full collection of Maryland Public Television records is available in our archival collections: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/32974.
Access condition: public.
Other Identifiers
Fedora 2 PID: umd:736095; Handle Identifier: hdl:1903.1/46323; Filename: bcast-076143

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