THE YEAR IN REVIEW: 1993 Plenty of Goals And Goal Posts
Maryland began shaking off the effects of recession in 1993, allowing state officials to turn their attention toward improving health care, tightening insurance regulation and setting the stage for the 1994 race to replace William Donald Schaefer as governor.</br></br>The year started with the governorÛªs attempts to bring a new National Football League franchise to Baltimore and ended as he tangled with Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke over Cooke's plan to move his team to a new stadium in Laurel.</br></br>In between, a series of violent and sometimes bizarre crimes dominated the headlines, including the slaying of a Roman Catholic nun in her convent in Baltimore. As 1993 was winding to a close, Baltimore had broken its record for homicides (335 deaths recorded in 1992), Montgomery County had broken its homicide record (28 in 1991), and the homicide rate in Prince GeorgeÛªs County was approaching record territory.</br></br>In Anne Arundel County, the trial and conviction of high school teacher Ronald W. Price for sexually abusing female students led to the resignation of county School Superintendent C. Berry Carter.</br></br>A different issue with sexual overtones dominated the 1993 session of the Maryland General Assembly. Though lawmakers wanted to focus on legal gambling, controlling assault weapons and assuring poor children a good education, they found themselves taken to task for their attitudes toward women.