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Question 7 is a bad deal for Maryland taxpayers; voters should reject it and insist that our elected officials get us a better one. -
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- The money, politics and passions surrounding Question 6, the ballot referendum on Maryland's same-sex marriage law, are big, hardcore and hot. Just the kind of story that can go beyond the promotional slogans and be used to measure a local TV station's real commitment to news and public affairs.
- As the Nov. 6 election nears, Marylanders are evenly divided on whether to make same-sex marriage legal in the state after opposition has grown in recent weeks, according to a new poll.
- Question 7 is a bad deal for Maryland taxpayers; voters should reject it and insist that our elected officials get us a better one.
- Md. should take a lesson from Connecticut and vote no on Question 7
- Maryland's referendum over gambling expansion has been dominated by the lavish spending of rival casino giants on slick advertising campaigns, but for some voters, the issue is deeply felt and intensely personal.
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- Voters must vote down Question 7 and not give a big tax break to casino operators
- Gov. Martin O'Malley has named the members of a powerful new body that will oversee most legal gambling in Maryland, retaining five members of the current Lottery Commission and adding two prominent Baltimore-area business leaders.
- Proponents of expanded gambling have enlisted four leading political figures, including Gov. Martin O'Malley, to make television ads assuring voters that the additional money expected to flow into state coffers will go to education.
- Proponents of expanded gambling have enlisted four leading political figures, including Gov. Martin O'Malley, to make television ads assuring voters that the additional money expected to flow into state coffers will go to education.
- Curry to bring grassroots touch to pro-casino campaign
- The pitch for Question 7 is upsetting even to those who are already cynical about politics.
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- Question 7 enables planned city casino to take more from Baltimore's poorest
- A study saying Maryland needs to approve Question 7 to avoid sending $1.5 billion to West Virginia over the next decade is flawed.
- Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake urges support for table games, Prince George's casino
- A new round of spending by Penn National Gaming and MGM Resorts International has pushed the ad war in the referendum over expanded gambling into record territory — eclipsing the $34 million raised for the 2006 governor's race with four weeks to go before Election Day.
- Revenue at Maryland's three casinos last month reached nearly $42.9 million in September, down from $44.6 million from the month before, according to figures released Friday morning from the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency.
- The Washington Redskins football team endorsed a yes vote in the ultra-expensive gambling expansion referendum heading for the Maryland ballot this fall, contending the measure will bring thousands of jobs to Prince George's County.
- Rely on casino gambling for revenue is a risky bet
- For three casino giants trying to persuade Marylanders to vote for or against more gambling here, the long-term stakes could be in the billions.
- For three casino giants trying to persuade Marylanders to vote for or against more gambling here, the long-term stakes could be in the billions.
- Harrah's Baltimore continues moving toward groundbreaking
- Some gambling opponents are hoping to block a sixth casino from being built in Maryland by focusing their energy in one place: Prince George's County.
- With seven weeks to go before the Nov. 6 election, gambling interests with a stake in the casino expansion referendum have raised more than the candidates spent in Maryland's last governor's race — previously the most expensive in state history.
- Lobbying lawmakers and voters for casino expansion proves highly profitable, so why not ponder Question 7 over and over again?
- Casino owners, labor and other interests spent more than $3.6 million to influence lawmakers during last month's special session to expand gambling in Maryland — a figure that amounts to roughly $900,000 a day for the four-day session, according to disclosure reports filed Monday.
- Anne Arundel County Executive John Leopold says adding a sixth Maryland casino will hurt residents in Baltimore City and Anne Arundel County.
- Cordish mum on referendum question at Arundel casino event.
- Gambling interests are spending millions to make a sixth casino sound like a better deal for Maryland than it really is.
- Maryland Live accounts for 73 percent of all revenue in third month of operation; Penn National continues losing money
- Gambling giant Penn National Gaming Inc. wrote a check for $5.5 million last week to limit gambling in Maryland, the latest move in a casino vs. casino battle that could saturate the airwaves and overwhelm other ballot initiatives this fall.
- I call this facility the "Doomsday Casino" because it will doom the gaming industry in Maryland. Competition from the "Doomsday Casino" will overwhelm the original five gaming locations in the state.
- Penn National-backed group launches anti-casino ad
- Gambling was the death of Detroit: Will Baltimore be next?
- Gov. Martin O'Malley was right that funding government through gambling is morally bankrupt.
- The loopholes in Maryland's new restriction on campaign contributions from the gambling industry will cement its influence in Annapolis.
- When the legislature went to work on Gov. Martin O'Malley's gambling bill, one of the first provisions to be rolled back was a sweeping ban on political contributions from casino interests. It changed the legislation so that only those who own at least 5 percent of casino are prohibited from giving.
- Ten hours after the General Assembly gave final approval to an expansion of gambling in Maryland, Gov. Martin O'Malley signed the bill that will put the hard-fought issue before the voters in November.
- Lawmakers took Gov. Martin O'Malley's bad idea and made it terrible by transforming a gambling expansion bill into a massive gift to casino owners.
- The Maryland General Assembly — with not a single vote to spare in the House but a heavy cushion in the Senate — gave final approval early Wednesday to a bill that would add table games and a sixth casino in Prince George's County to the state's gambling program.
- Members of the House of Delegates weren't called to the floor for a debate on the controversial gambling expansion bill until 4:30 Tuesday afternoon although legislators were asked to be back by 2 p.m.
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- A key House committee voted Monday night to guarantee deeper tax breaks for some Maryland casino operators, the most significant change so far to Gov. Martin O'Malley's gambling bill.
