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Maryland will institute one of the country's strictest anti-smoking laws, barring smokers from lighting up inside of bars, restaurants, hotels and office buildings. An injunction against the ban was lifted last week by the state's supreme court, allowing Governor Parris Glendening to issue the order that prohibits smoking in all indoor workplaces, except in designated rooms with direct ventilation to the outdoors, beginning March 27. "Maryland has the fourth-highest cancer death rate," said Governor Glendening. "Secondhand smoke will kill 1,000 Marylanders this year." California, Vermont and Utah are the only other states with equally comprehensive...
...empowered party. Three versions of the proposed constitutional amendment are competing in the House, all of them limiting Senators to only two six-year terms but permitting House members from six to 12 years of service. Freshmen, for whom six years always seems a long time, are supporting the strictest version...
...this last time, however. Or perhaps only in the strictest sense. Because, in truth, Election 1994 was not about sending leaders to Washington; it was about sending a message to Washington regarding how bad we thought our leaders were. It followed a campaign in which a picture of someone alongside Washington's Capitol dome was tantamount to a smear and in which all but the most atavistic incumbents abstained from leaderly chest beating for fear it might mark them as "insiders." If we could have sent no one to Congress, we would have. Those whom we did send, needless...
...current move toward tighter laws has produced the same response. California has some of the strictest in the country; Senator Dianne Feinstein is leading the charge to outlaw assault weapons and semiautomatics. A series of polls last June indicated that 45% of Californians favor a handgun ban. Meanwhile, in the month after the Los Angeles riots, gun sales jumped 45% over the previous year...
...other more tangible ingredient for violence is weapons. If the flow of weapons is seriously curtailed, the violence will ease. The fact that D.C. has one of the nation's strictest gun control laws demonstrates the futility of local legislation. It is increasingly clear that stiff nationwide gun control is the only way to reduce the number of weapons on the street...