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The Capital News Service bureaus in Annapolis and Washington are now operating for the spring semester. Rafael Lorente is the new Annapolis bureau director, and he can be reached at 410-626-1008 or 301-858-5431. Washington bureau director Adrianne Flynn returns and can be reached at 202-628-1677.

Here are brief biographical sketches of the new bureau director and student reporters in each bureau who will be filing stories from Washington and Annapolis for our wire service subscribers this semester:

Fall 2007, Annapolis Bureau

RAFAEL LORENTE is the new Annapolis bureau chief. Lorente is a former reporter with the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and Miami Herald. As a reporter in Washington for the Sun-Sentinel, Lorente covered the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, the attacks of Sept. 11, and U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America, particularly Cuba.

KATE ELIZABETH QUERAM, 26, is a graduate student at the University of Maryland, College Park who will cover environmental, agricultural and rural issues for CNS. She received her undergraduate degree in English and Spanish from the University of Michigan. Before enrolling at Maryland, she worked for Cambridge University Press and interned with the Maritime Reporter, both based in New York. She can be reached at environment-ann@jmail.umd.edu or at farms-ann@jmail.umd.edu.

LAURA SCHWARTZMAN, 20, is an undergraduate student at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism who will cover health, welfare and social services in Annapolis. She reported on the city of College Park last spring for the campus daily, The Diamondback, and has interned for Thompson Publishing Group and Smartbrief. She can be reached at health-ann@jmail.umd.edu or at welfare-ann@jmail.umd.edu.

KELLY WILSON, 22, is a graduate student at the University of Maryland, College Park, covering politics, the state budget and education. She received her undergraduate degree in English from Washington and Jefferson College and she has freelanced for The Diamondback and The Prince George's Sentinel in Maryland, and Street Sense in Washington, D.C. In the fall, she was also an intern for American Journalism Review. She can be reached at schools-ann@jmail.umd.edu or politics-ann@jmail.umd.edu.

Fall 2007, Washington Bureau

BEN MEYERSON, 21, is an undergraduate journalism major covering immigration and census issues for CNS. He'll also cover Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin, Democratic Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger and Republican Rep. Roscoe Bartlett. Meyerson has previously interned at The Washington Post Express, the Hyattsville Life and Times and the (Oak Park, Ill.) Wednesday Journal. He's also reported for Terp Weekly Edition on WMUC-FM in College Park, and occasionally spins records on the station. Meyerson expects to graduate in spring 2009. He can be reached at census-dc@jmail.umd.edu.

WILL SKOWRONSKI, 20, is an undergraduate journalism major at Maryland covering defense and federal workers for CNS. He'll also handle the primary race in Maryland's 1st Congressional District. Skowronski has interned with Howard County bureau of The (Baltimore) Sun and with the Baltimore Business Journal. He can be reached at defense-dc@jmail.umd.edu.

VEENA TREHAN, 39, is a graduate student at the University of Maryland, College Park, covering politics and education. She received her undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before returning to journalism school, she spent more than a decade consulting for the federal government. Trehan has completed internships with Reuters, Bloomberg News and National Public Radio. She can be reached at politics-dc@jmail.umd.edu.