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Senate overwhelmingly approves O'Malley budget
Gov. Martin O'Malley's budget for next year sailed through the Senate on Wednesday after an unusually brief debate, seen by some as a sign of the state's improved fiscal condition. Senators voted 42-5 to pass the $36.8 billion budget and send it to a...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Elections, Martin O'Malley, Parties and Movements, Republican Party
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Carroll County Senate Delegation hosts town hall on gun bill Feb. 26
Carroll County's Senate delegation will hold a town hall meeting on the Firearms Safety Act (Senate Bill 281) on Tuesday, Feb. 26, at 7 p.m., at the Best Western Hotel, 451 Best Western Drive, in Westminster. County residents are invited to comment on...Tags: Westminster (Carroll, Maryland), Martin O'Malley, Carroll County (Maryland)
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Miller says state must act now to fund transportation
Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller testified Wednesday that Maryland's shortage of funds for transportation projects is a crisis that needs to be addressed now. Appearing before the Senate Budget & Taxation Committee, Miller said his proposed...
Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Purple Line (Maryland), Montgomery County (Maryland), Calvert County, FBI
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Howard County looking for another site to build apartments for homeless
Howard County will "most likely" drop its plans to build an apartment building for the chronically homeless at the site of the Beechcrest Mobile Home Park, in North Laurel, according to county spokesman Mark Miller. The Howard County Housing...
Tags: The Salvation Army, House Building, Voting, Joseph M Getty, Nancy Jacobs
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Delegations split on meetings, but hear similar legislative requests
At the Carroll County Senate Delegation's public hearing last week at the County Office Building in Westminster, state Sen. Joseph Getty, a Republican who represents District 5, opened the session expressing disappointment that the County House Delegation...Tags: Westminster (Carroll, Maryland), Bars and Clubs, Joseph M Getty, Voting, Carroll County (Maryland)
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State leaders urged to raise money for roads, transit
Business leaders and county officials are urging the governor and General Assembly to increase Maryland's gas tax or find another way to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for road and transit projects — even in the face of public opposition....Tags: Purple Line (Maryland), Maryland Chamber of Commerce, Transportation, Personal Income, Executive Branch
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Maryland budget forecast brightens
After years of budgetary gloom and shortfalls in the billions of dollars, Maryland's fiscal forecasters offered lawmakers a brighter outlook Tuesday, saying the state's operating budget could be just $27 million in the red next fiscal year.
Top fiscal...Tags: Analysts' Comments, Annapolis, Budgets and Budgeting, Fiscal Cliff, Transportation
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Analysts take grim view of 'fiscal cliff'
General Assembly analysts released estimates Wednesday painting a much grimmer picture of the impact of a continued federal budget impasse than the O'Malley administration did less than a month ago. In a presentation to legislature's fiscal committees,...Tags: National Government, Baltimore County, Government, George W. Bush, Michael E. Busch
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Obama and the 7 habits of highly ineffective government
Stephen Covey, the management guru who died this week, would have had a hard time selling his books in Benjamin Franklin's America, or Abe Lincoln's. His best seller "7 Habits of Highly Effective People" would have been considered a self-evident truth,...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Abraham Lincoln, Elections
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Baltimore has been site of many national political conventions
With the presidential convention season upon us, political and campaign junkies will most likely find Stan Haynes' recently published book, "The First American Political Conventions: Transforming Presidential Nominations, 1832-1872," a fascinating and...Tags: Woodrow Wilson, Ellicott City, Elections, Baltimore Hotels, Roseanne Barr
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Senate passes gambling expansion bill
The Maryland Senate passed Gov.Martin O'Malley's gambling expansion bill on a 28-14 vote Friday, sending the legislation to a more closely divided House of Delegates when the General Assembly's special session continues Monday. Approval came in the early...
Tags: Baltimore County, Richard F. Colburn, Government, Democratic Party, Executive Branch
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Delegation says county stands to lose $1 million in special session
Carroll County's Delegation to Annapolis said this past week that the county would be better off under the state's "doomsday" budget, and stands to lose some $1 million in state funding in a special session of the Maryland General Assembly. In a May 3...Tags: Annapolis, Westminster (Carroll, Maryland), Budgets and Budgeting, Local Government, Trials
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