Hearing To Be Held On Renaming 2 Md. Mountains
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- A Senate committee is holding a hearing on a resolution to rename two Maryland mountains.
The Maryland Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee are scheduled to hold the hearing on Tuesday. The resolution calls for a commission to rename Negro Mountain and Polish Mountain in western Maryland.
State Sen. Lisa Gladden, D-Baltimore, is sponsoring the proposal. She says the name has always bothered her because "Negro" is a term that often has carried negative connotations about African-Americans.
But lawmakers from the state's mountainous western panhandle say the bill reflects political correctness taken to an extreme by legislators in Baltimore and Maryland's Washington suburbs.
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