Push to legalize assisted suicide in Maryland is over – for now

Push to legalize assisted suicide in Maryland is over – for now

Baltimore (CNA/EWTN News) — The latest push to legalize assisted suicide for the terminally ill has failed in Maryland, but opponents are well aware that this isn't the end of the fight.

When it was clear that it didn't have enough support to pass, the sponsor of the End-of-Life Option Act, Sen. Robert Young (D-Frederick), pulled the bill March 3 ahead of the Senate Judiciary Proceedings Committee.

Study: Renters’ rise extends beyond big US cities to suburbs
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Study: Renters’ rise extends beyond big US cities to suburbs

Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — In the American imagination, suburbs are places to buy a house and put down roots. But a growing percentage of suburbanites rent, according to a new study.

About 29 percent of suburbanites living outside the nation's 11 most populous cities were renters in 2014, up from 23 percent in 2006, according to a report being released Tuesday by New York University's Furman Center real estate think tank and the bank Capital One.

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