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O'Malley signs death penalty repeal
Surrounded by religious leaders, civil rights activists and others who have fought for years to stop executions in Maryland, Gov. Martin O'Malley signed legislation Thursday repealing the state's death penalty. Unless the law is overturned in a...
Tags: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Martin O'Malley, Death Penalty, Justice System, Executive Branch
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Senate OKs online sales tax
The Senate voted Monday to allow states to assess a sales tax on purchases from Amazon.com, eBay and other online retailers in a bipartisan measure that would also reduce the increase planned for Maryland's gas tax. The bill, which passed 69-27, would...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Baltimore County, Business, Justice System, Andrew P Harris
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For Maryland Republicans, new messenger, same message
Maryland's House Republicans decided this week to jettison Del. Anthony J. O'Donnell from the leadership of their caucus on the grounds that a new messenger is needed to revitalize the party's prospects and pick up seats in the 2014 election. We wish...
Tags: Martin O'Malley, Elections, National Government, DREAM Act, Personal Weapon Control
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Arundel's George seeks to jump from delegate to governor
Del. Ron George, a Republican who operates a jewelry store almost under the shadow of the State House, will go for the political gold as he makes a run for governor in 2014. George, who represents Anne Arundel County, confirmed Tuesday that he has...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Elections, Martin O'Malley, Executive Branch, Annapolis
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O'Malley sees success in jail indictments, but critics take aim
As critics of Martin O'Malley sensed a new political vulnerability, the governor insisted Tuesday that last week's indictment of inmates and correctional officers at the Baltimore City Detention Center was "a positive achievement" in Maryland's fight...
Tags: Rod J. Rosenstein, Martin O'Malley, Justice System, FBI, Joe Biden
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The sequester gives Obama one more chance to blow it
In President Barack Obama's running argument with the Republicans in Congress over who's responsible for the legislative stalemate on Capitol Hill, he suffers self-inflicted wounds by continuing to run up the same white flag that undermined his own...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Layoffs and Downsizing, World War I (1914-1918), Elections, Federal Aviation Administration
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House GOP deposes O'Donnell, chooses Kipke as leader
Vastly outnumbered and constantly thwarted by Democrats, Republicans in the House of Delegates ousted longtime Minority Leader Anthony J. O'Donnell Tuesday and replaced him with Anne Arundel County Del. Nicholaus R. Kipke. After a meeting that dragged...Tags: Harford County, Parties and Movements, Americans for Prosperity, Calvert County
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Who says the Republicans are doomed?
Since Mitt Romney lost to President Obama on Nov. 6, the conventional wisdom has been that the Republican Party is in trouble. The less conventional truth is that it is the Democrats whose chances may be more bleak. Yes, Republicans are currently...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Max Baucus, Hillary Clinton, Brian Schweitzer, Elections
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Republicans united — and wrong — on guns
Why does it comes at no surprise that not a single Republican voted for stricter gun control in Maryland ("House passes gun control," April 4)? In 2014, we need to vote out Republicans across the nation so we can get some work done in this country....
Tags: Elections, Catonsville, Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Gun Control
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Immigration bill is no compromise
When only one of the extreme sides of each political party is hollering against a bipartisan agreement on any bill, no doubt that side is the only one getting hosed. A true bipartisan bill gets both sides upset. So now begins the spin game by trying to...
Tags: Charlie Crist, Immigration, Lindsey O. Graham, Havre de Grace, Ronald Reagan
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Rand Paul gets schooled at Howard
Rand Paul did just fine at Howard University, thank you very much. Or at least, that's how he remembers it. Mr. Paul, GOP senator from Kentucky, told the Christian Science Monitor on Wednesday that his recent visit to Howard didn't go so bad at all....
Tags: Students, Lyndon B. Johnson, Elections, Howard University, Teaching and Learning
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Shame on the Senate; send 'em all home
Let me begin this column with an apology. Once a week, I pick an important issue and offer my reasoned analysis, based on the facts, of what it all means and how we should react. But there are times when the intellect fails and the heart and gut take...
Tags: Mark Begich, U.S. Senate, Heidi Heitkamp, Max Baucus, Mitch McConnell
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