| March 1998 |
| MDDC Public Records Bills Stalled in General
Assembly As the 1998 session of the Maryland General Assembly moved toward its April 13 close, the fate of two MDDC Press Association bills aimed at improving access to public records was doubtful. |
| Cornely Takes Reins at Winter Convention Deborah Cornely, managing editor of The Dundalk Eagle, was elected president of the MDDC Press Association Feb. 26 at the Association's Winter Convention at the Admiral Fell Inn in Baltimore. |
| Catching up: On Growth and its Changes As the Association's activity and reach expand, so too do its internal operations. Here's an update on developments, including finances, growth and some structural tweaking. |
| Compliance Board Hears Salisbury Complaint In an unusual step, the Maryland Open Meetings Compliance Board traveled to Salisbury March 2 for a conference on complaints of closed meetings by Worcester County and Salisbury officials. |
| Robinson Inducted to Hall of Fame Community Journalist W. Wright Robinson, who has chronicled life in and around Seaford, Delaware, for nearly 70 years, was inducted into the Maryland-Delaware-District of Columbia Newspaper Hall of Fame on February 27 ... |
| 600 Awards in Largest Editorial Contest The Baltimore Sun, Herald-Mail of Hagerstown, The Prince George's Journal, Howard County Times and Legal Times of Washington, DC, were the big winners in MDDC Press Association's biggest editorial contest. |
| Family Tradition . . . My parents founded The Dundalk Eagle nearly 30 years ago. |
| Profile: Deborah Cornely Cornely is managing editor of The Dundalk Eagle, a 23,000 paid circulation weekly newspaper in southeast Baltimore County. |
| Advertising Department Update JCPenney recently announced that it will turn over the placement function for its preprint and corporate advertising to Newspaper Services of America (NSA) by the end of summer. |
| Free Access Hotline Has Busy First Year Members of the MDDC Press Association made good use of the free member Hotline last year. |
| One Editor's View On Covering Juvenile Court
Proceedings Deborah Cornely, managing editor of The Dundalk Eagle, was elected president of the MDDC Press Association Feb. 26 at the Association's Winter Convention at the Admiral Fell Inn in Baltimore. |
| Access to Arrest Warrants Tightened Access to unserved arrest warrants in Maryland was challenged recently after reports in The Sun that letters from a firm that solicits clients for lawyers reached several defendants before the police arrived to serve the warrants. |
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