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Gov. O'Malley supports life for murderers, not the unborn
The Maryland legislature recently voted to abolish capital punishment in the state, making Maryland the sixth state in the last six years to eliminate the death penalty. The primary argument for repealing the law is that our justice system is...
Tags: Martin O'Malley, Death Penalty, The Washington Post, Punishment, Justice System
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Tougher cellphone ban nears approval
Motorists in Maryland could be pulled over and ticketed for driving while talking on hand-held phones even if they weren't breaking another law under legislation that is poised for final passage in the General Assembly. The Senate voted 40-6 Monday to...
Tags: Howard County, Cell Phones, Martin O'Malley, James N. Robey, Regional Authority
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Senators wrestle with death penalty vote
State Sen. Allan Kittleman is torn. When lobbied by the ACLU and the NAACP to repeal Maryland's death penalty, Kittleman asks how he can ensure the most heinous murderers will never kill again. When approached by fellow senators or state's attorneys...
Tags: Annapolis, Martin O'Malley, Scott Shellenberger, Montgomery County (Maryland), Punishment
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New Md. laws include ban on arsenic in chicken feed
As of New Year's Day, arsenic is officially off the menu for Maryland chickens. The nation's first statewide ban on the use of additives in chicken feed containing the toxic metal is among a dozen new state laws that take effect Jan. 1. The new civil...
Tags: Family, New Year's Day, Montgomery County (Maryland), Government, Marriage
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Md. Senate Democrats hold caucus
Democratic members of the Maryland Senate caucused Wednesday morning in Annapolis, apparently summoned by Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller to discuss the prospects for special sessions of the General Assembly this year. More than half the members...Tags: U.S. Senate, Annapolis, Democratic Party, Thomas V. Mike Miller, Regional Authority
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Senate defeats bill allowing gas utility surcharge
A bill that would have let gas utilities seek a surchage of up to $2 a month on customers' bill was shot down -- for a second time -- Wednesday by a bipartisan coalition of senators who contended the measure would let monopolies charge ratepayers up...Tags: Annapolis, Companies and Corporations, Elections, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Democratic Party
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Bill banning smoking in cars with kids survives
A bill that would ban smoking in vehicles occupied by children under 8 survived an attempt to love it to death on the Senate floor Friday morning as proponents managed to reverse the vote on an amendment that probably would have doomed the legislation....Tags: U.S. Senate, Annapolis, Elections, Thomas V. Mike Miller, Human Rights
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Annapolis Market House reopens
Some tourists came for gelato. One couple lunched on raw oysters. And a woman hovered near a display of half-pound jumbo lump crab cakes, pointing to a companion and saying, "Oh, my God."
As the historic Annapolis Market House reopened Monday amid a...Tags: Annapolis, Tropical Storms, Government, Public Officials, Democratic Party
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Strapped fisheries agency facing legislative hack job
Visiting the Maryland General Assembly is like having a front-row seat at Short Attention Span Theater. Lawmakers hope you don't remember what they did to you last year and count on you not remembering two years ago. Otherwise, how do you explain the...Tags: Energy Resources, Natural Resource Industry, Natural Resources, Joan Carter Conway, Basketball
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Senators turn away repeal of death penalty in Md.
Baltimore County senators rebuffed an effort to abolish Maryland's death penalty yesterday, persuading lawmakers instead to restrict when capital punishment can be used. The Senate's first full debate on the death penalty in more than three decades was...Tags: Joan Carter Conway, Martin O'Malley, Elie Wiesel, Nathaniel Exum, Montgomery County (Maryland)
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State police defend the 12-copter medevac fleet
State police officials tried yesterday to reassure critics in the General Assembly that Maryland's emergency medical transport system was in capable hands despite a recent audit detailing numerous maintenance and management deficiencies at the police-...Tags: Maryland, Emergency Planning, Annapolis, Emergency Incidents, Laws
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Narrow majority of Md. senators oppose repeal of death penalty, survey reveals
Gov. Martin O'Malley's push to end the death penalty in Maryland would probably fall short if a legislative vote were held today, even though the governor insisted yesterday that the repeal effort "has a real shot this year." A Baltimore Sun survey of...Tags: Joan Carter Conway, Martin O'Malley, Nathaniel Exum, Montgomery County (Maryland), Punishment
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