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Maryland Schools: Adequacy Leads to Spending Hike

By Jon Greenberg on Friday, April 26, 2002.

New Hampshire lawmakers continue to wrestle with how to pay for schools. 500 miles to the south, their colleagues in the state of Maryland recently took an historic step in education funding. They created a commission to estimate the cost of an adequate education and then agreed to follow the commission's recommendation to spend an additional $1.3 dollars on schools.

David Nitkin is the state house bureau chief for the Baltimore Sun. Nitkin told NHPR's Jon Greenberg that spending hike was completely unexpected.

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Shopping Center Controversy in Greenland

By Roger Wood on Friday, April 26, 2002.

Greenland residents opposed to a large retail shopping center development are planning their next move.

As Correspondent Roger Wood reports, the developer has won approval for the project from a local land use board.

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