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O'Malley signs gun bill
Gov. Martin O'Malley on Thursday signed a gun-control bill that is among the country's most sweeping legislative responses to the December mass shooting in Newtown, Conn. The law bans the sale of assault-style rifles, including the AR-15 used in the...
Tags: Lawyers, Martin O'Malley, Gun Control, Executive Branch, Personal Weapon Control
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Anne Arundel preserves a diamond in the rough
The cinder block dugouts are decrepit and the backstop is ragged at the old baseball diamond in Galesville, but giants once ran the bases in this southern Anne Arundel County town. Not just giants but Elite Giants, as in the old Negro Leagues team of the...
Tags: Los Angeles Dodgers, Baseball
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$1 billion for new city schools: From non-starter to law
Baltimore schools chief Andrés Alonso went to Annapolis last year seeking approval for a bold $2 billion plan to replace many of the city system's crumbling buildings. The idea didn't even make it out of committee. Prospects still looked bleak in...
Tags: Elections, Teaching and Learning, Martin O'Malley, Executive Branch, Finance
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Security chief at Baltimore City Detention Center removed
State officials said Tuesday they removed the security chief at the Baltimore City Detention Center in the wake of a federal indictment that alleged an extensive smuggling scheme involving gang members and officers at the facility. The Maryland...
Tags: Martin O'Malley, AFSCME, Organized Crime, Executive Branch, Black Guerrilla Family
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Getting answers in Md.'s jail corruption scandal
When federal authorities announced a sweeping indictment alleging widespread corruption by 13 guards at the Baltimore City Detention Center, members of the House of Delegates Judiciary Committee were quick to call for a hearing so they could demand...
Tags: U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Gang Activity, Martin O'Malley, Justice System, Prisons
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Assembly leaders change plans for city jail oversight
General Assembly leaders say a joint committee of top legislators will hear from corrections officials about alleged corruption at the Baltimore City Detention Center. The briefing, to be held in June, replaces a House Judiciary Committee hearing that...
Tags: Government, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Gang Activity, Safety of Citizens, Justice System
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Table games bad for schools
Once again, Gov. Martin O'Malley, House Speaker Michael E. Busch and Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller pull the wool over the eyes of Marylanders ("The state busts," May 8). What a great deal tables games are for the casino operators, while the...
Tags: Martin O'Malley
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One-party rule in Maryland exacerbates jail scandal
The evil that comes from a one-party state could not be more glaring than in the wake of the federal indictments over the corruption in the state-run Baltimore City Detention Center. Gov. Martin O'Malley has attempted to turn the astonishing degree of...
Tags: Lawyers, Criminals, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Civil Rights, Political Corruption
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O'Malley promises corrections reform as GOP calls for audit
Gov. Martin O'Malley said Thursday that he would expand the use of technology to block cell phone calls in Maryland corrections facilities, part of a set of reforms designed to "root out corruption" after a federal indictment alleged widespread gang...
Tags: Martin O'Malley, Organized Crime, Black Guerrilla Family, Regional Authority, Baltimore County
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O'Malley's success echoes Mandel's 1972 triumph
Forty-one years ago, Maryland Gov. Marvin Mandel pulled off a series of staggering triumphs that The Sun compared to winning the Triple Crown: Maryland's first gun-control law; a unique, state-run auto insurance agency; and a higher gasoline tax to...
Tags: Martin O'Malley, Gun Control, Executive Branch, Personal Weapon Control, Triple Crown
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Maryland taxpayers revolt! Time to clean house in Annapolis
This year's Maryland General Assembly session has led me to conclude the people who control our state government truly are out of touch with folks like me and, I suspect, many of you reading this column. (As if most of you hadn't decided this long ago,...
Tags: Elections, Gun Control, Personal Weapon Control, Executive Branch, Regional Authority
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Delegate who helped kill pit bull bill seeks special session
Three days after the General Assembly ended its 2013 legislative session, there's already a call to bring lawmakers back to Annapolis for what would be their fourth special session in a two-year span. Del. Benjamin F. Kramer, a Montgomery County...Tags: Government, Montgomery County (Maryland), Martin O'Malley, Humane Society of the United States, Annapolis
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