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Annapolis Wrap: First Full Week of 2014 Session

WYPR - 88.1 FM Baltimore | By Christopher Connelly

Published January 17, 2014 at 5:30 PM EST

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In a busy second week of the General Assembly's 90-day session there was a demonstration for the legalization of marijuana--another one for a minimum wage hike--and a hearing on the state's troubled health insurance exchange.

WYPR's Christopher Connelly is in the State House and joins News Director Joel McCord to talk about the week's developments.

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Christopher Connelly

Christopher Connelly is a political reporter for WYPR, covering the day-to-day movement and machinations in Annapolis. He comes to WYPR from NPR, where he was a Joan B. Kroc Fellow, produced for weekend All Things Considered and worked as a rundown editor for All Things Considered. Chris has a master’s degree in journalism from UC Berkeley. He’s reported for KALW (San Francisco), KUSP (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and KJZZ (Phoenix), and worked at StoryCorps in Brooklyn, N.Y. He’s filed stories on a range of topics, from a shortage of dog blood in canine blood banks to heroin addicts in Tanzania. He got his start in public radio at WYSO in Yellow Springs, Ohio, when he was a student at Antioch College.

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