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Tax credit errors spur calls for audits
City and state lawmakers called Monday for stepped-up scrutiny of property tax credit programs in Baltimore, after a Baltimore Sun investigation found that chronic errors have cost the city millions of dollars in lost revenue, despite warnings...Tags: Property Tax, Credit and Debt, Accounting and Auditing, Judges, Justice System
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Balto. Co. school board bill fails in final hours of Assembly session
Legislation to add elected members to the Baltimore County school board failed in the General Assembly late Monday, amid intense opposition from County Executive Kevin Kamenetz. The state Senate passed a measure last week to add six elected members to...Tags: Baltimore County, Pikesville, NAACP, Local Elections, Elections
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Caesars says it's true to Baltimore
Executives of Caesars Entertainment, the leading bidder for a slots parlor in Baltimore, gave lawmakers explicit assurances Friday that their company will not abandon the city for Prince George's County if the General Assembly approves a casino there....Tags: Samuel I Rosenberg, Annapolis, Justice System, Woodrow Wilson, Prince George's County
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Revised Prince George's casino bill faces committee vote Saturday
Laurel's District 23 Sen. Douglas J.J. Peters' bill to authorize Maryland to have a sixth gambling site inPrince George's County is being revised in the House of Delegates. With the General Assembly session slated to end on Monday, if the revised bill...Tags: Laurel, Woodrow Wilson, Gambling, Prince George's County, Casino and Gambling Industry
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Slots commission rejects Landow's bid for Rocky Gap
Maryland's slots commission threw out a bid Friday by former state Democratic Party Chairman Nathan Landow to build a casino at Rocky Gap, leaving a single offer in play for the Western Maryland resort. The decision concerning one of Maryland's five...Tags: Baltimore Hotels, Donald C. Fry, Annapolis, Finance, U.S. Senate
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House leaders to scrap Senate casino plan
With only three days remaining in the General Assembly's session, House leaders plan to scrap a Senate plan that would expand gambling in Maryland and write a substantially new bill — a move that could doom any effort to approve a sixth casino in...Tags: Rushern Baker, Scott Peterson, Prince George's County, Howard County, Michael E. Busch
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Maryland set to raise school attendance age to 18
Maryland is poised to join a growing number of states that are requiring students to stay in school until their 18th birthday, a shift that President Barack Obama urged during his State of the Union address in January.
A measure to raise the compulsory...Tags: Executive Branch, National Government, Teaching and Learning, Barack Obama, American Civil Liberties Union
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Miller lashes out at House as standoff lingers
With less than eight hours remaining before the General Assembly would have to go into an exteneded session, the House and Senate remain divided over income taxes and -- some believe -- casino gambling. As of late afternoon Monday, legislative leaders...Tags: Michael E. Busch
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House Ways and Means passes a gambling bill
The House Ways and Means Committee passed a bill that would allow gambling in Prince George's County and table games at all Maryland casinos on a 14 to 4 vote. Four members abstained. Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker said that he likes the...Tags: Rushern Baker, Prince George's County, Elections, Movies
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Assembly fails to pass tax bill, adopts 'Doomsday' budget
The Maryland General Assembly's regular 90-day session ended in disarray Monday at midnight as legislators failed to approve an income tax measure to which their leaders had agreed.
The lack of action meant that a so-called "doomsday" budget —...Tags: Executive Branch, Justice System, Condos and Houses, Budgets and Budgeting, Prince George's County
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As session expires, partially elected school board bill dies
A last-ditch bargaining effort was not enough to overcome Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz's opposition on Monday, April 9, as a bill that would have allowed some elected members on the county's Board of Education died on the House floor in the...Tags: Cathy Bevins, U.S. Senate, Todd Huff, Towson, Local Elections
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Editorial: Demise of school board bill seems like an opportunity lost
For those seeking change for Baltimore County Public Schools, this week is a case of a glass half full ... or half empty. While the school system welcomes the school board's choice for a new leader beginning this summer, another opportunity for change...Tags: Joe A. Hairston, Executive Branch, S. Dallas Dance, Government, Local Elections
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