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Measure to delay collection of runoff fees dies in state House
A move to delay controversial new fees to help clean up the Chesapeake Bay failed Monday night, when a Senate-passed measure to postpone the stormwater charges didn't get a vote in the House of Delegates. Earlier Monday evening, the Maryland Senate voted...
Tags: Environmental Pollution, Prince George's County, Baltimore County, Business
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Maryland lawmakers call for answers on alleged jail corruption involving BGF
Maryland lawmakers called Wednesday for a sweeping inquiry into the state prison system, amid allegations that a gang effectively took over the Baltimore City Detention Center, orchestrating crimes from behind bars and impregnating female correctional...
Tags: Safety of Citizens, Government, Prince George's County, Jessup (Anne Arundel, Maryland), Calvert County
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Move to delay pollution fees afoot in Annapolis
Amid complaints over what critics dismiss as a "rain tax," some powerful lawmakers in Annapolis are mounting a last-minute attempt Monday to delay state-mandated storm-water fees that Baltimore city and Maryland's nine largest counties are about to assess...
Tags: Environmental Pollution, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Annapolis, Howard County, Carroll County (Maryland)
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Keeping a third-generation piano business finely tuned
Recession being the bane of piano retailers, it seems wholly remarkable that Harry Cohen and his son, Lou, decided to start selling Baldwins and Wurlitzers in 1937 — the year the economy relapsed toward the end of the Great Depression. But somehow...
Tags: Music, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Cecil County, Harford County, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport
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Arundel executive vetoes 'rain tax' fee
Anne Arundel County Executive Laura A. Neuman on Thursday vetoed that county’s version of the so-called rain tax — making it the first jurisdiction to take action against the controversial state-mandated stormwater management fee. Under...
Tags: Elections, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Annapolis, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Media Industry
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City's revamped pre-K showing promise
Before Lauren Preston opened the cover of the book "Spring" to read to her pre-kindergarten class at Mary Ann Winterling Elementary School, her students excitedly told her why, and showed her how, the season was underway. Daffodils — not just...
Tags: Prince George's County, Early Learning, Financial Aid, Baltimore County, Barack Obama
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Health officials consider increasing plastic surgery center oversight
Maryland health officials may ask state lawmakers for permission to oversee plastic surgery centers, a move inspired in part by the death of a Lochearn woman after liposuction.
The state health department had already been considering whether to ask...Tags: Surgery, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Plastic Surgery, Hospitals and Clinics, Justice System
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Petition effort begun to overturn gun law
The Baltimore SunIf you hate Maryland's new gun law and wish you could vote against it, Sue Payne is looking for you. The Montgomery County woman this week filed paperwork with the Board of Elections to petition the controversial new gun-control bill to referendum. She...Tags: Elections, Local Elections, Annapolis, Lawyers, Personal Weapon Control
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Gun-control law to make ownership records private
A little-noticed provision tucked at the end of the sweeping gun legislation approved by the General Assembly last month would shield from view key state gun records that now are public — a change that was pushed by gun-rights advocates during the...
Tags: Elections, Annapolis, Regional Authority, Firearms, Personal Weapon Control
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Howard legislators predict a revisit of stormwater fee issue
Howard County legislators said this week that they believe the General Assembly will need to make adjustments to a state-mandated stormwater management fee imposed on Howard County and nine other Maryland jurisdictions. "I don't think it's over yet,"...
Tags: Annapolis, Howard County, Edward J Kasemeyer, Port of Baltimore, Small Businesses
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House votes to repeal death penalty
The General Assembly voted to repeal the death penalty Friday, calling for an end to Maryland's 375-year history of capital punishment and joining a growing number of states outlawing the practice. After nearly two hours of impassioned debate, the House...
Tags: Punishment, Annapolis, Regional Authority, U.S. Supreme Court, Government
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No. 10 Poly boys fall to Magruder, 62-50, in Class 4A semifinal
The Poly boys basketball team needed some time to get comfortable in the Class 4A state semifinal at the University of Maryland's Comcast Center on Thursday night. Going against defending state champion Magruder, it was time the No. 10 Engineers...Tags: Comcast Center (arena)
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