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Gov. Martin O'Malley's budget for next year was approved by the Senate after an unusually brief debate Wednesday in a sign of the state's improved fiscal condition.

Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller testified Wednesday that Maryland's shortage of funds for transportation projects is a crisis that needs to be addressed now.

Howard County is considering other locations than North Laurel's Beechcrest Mobile Home Park to build an apartment complex for the chronically homeless, county spokesman Mark Miller confirmed this week.

At the Carroll County Senate Delegation's public hearing last week at the County Office Building in Westminster, Sen. Joseph Getty (R-Dist. 5), outgoing delegation chairman, opened the session expressing disappointment that the County House Delegation had decided to hold its own separate hearing the following day.

Business leaders and county officials are urging the governor and General Assembly to increase Maryland's gas tax or find another way to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for road and transit projects — even in the face of public opposition.

After years of budgetary gloom and shortfalls in the billions, Maryland's state fiscal forecasters offered lawmakers a brighter outlook Tuesday, saying the state's operating budget could be just $27 million in the red next fiscal year.

General Assembly analysts released estimates Wednesday painting a much grimmer picture of the impact of a continued federal budget impasse than the O'Malley administration did less than a month ago.

The Maryland Senate passed Gov. Martin O'Malley's gambling expansion bill on a 28-14 vote Friday, sending the legislation to a more closely divided House of Delegates for a decision when the General Assembly's special session continues into a second week Monday.

As the political convention season is about to unfold, along comes a book by Stan M. Hayes, a Baltimore attorney, who chronicled the convention years 1832 to 1872.

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Carroll County's Delegation to Annapolis said this past week that the county would be better off under the state's "doomsday" budget, and stands to lose some $1 million in state funding in a special session of the Maryland General Assembly.

Nicolee Ambrose, running an insurgent candidacy against the Maryland Republican establishment, seized the post of Maryland national committeewoman at the state GOP convention Saturday

Republican and Democratic candidates made a final push for support across the state hours before voters were set to head to the polls in Maryland today to chose a GOP presidential candidate and settle a handful of highly competitive congressional contests.

State Sen. David Brinkley, who is running for the Republican nomination in Maryland's 6th Congressional District, is airing the first television ad of his campaign Friday.

85-year-old Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett is poised to capture the GOP nomination in Maryland's 6th District for the 11th time. The race for the seat, which covers Western Maryland and portions of Montgomery and Frederick counties, is among the most closely watched in the country this year.

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Democratic congressional candidate John Delaney outraised state Sen. Rob Garagiola by more than three-to-one and then loaned himself an additional $1.3 million this year, giving the Potomac banker a significant financial advantage in the competitive 6th congressional district.

The state Senate voted Thursday to significantly raise taxes on Marylanders earning half a million dollars or more — prompting complaints that liberals were bent on launching class warfare in the state.

Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, the 10-term Republican incumbent fighting for reelection in Maryland's redrawn 6th Congressional District, will being airing his first television advertisement today, a mostly introductory spot that focuses on the lawmaker's fiscal record.

Determined to avoid deep cuts to state spending, a Senate committee voted Thursday to approve an increase of roughly one-quarter of a percent in Maryland's income tax rate and to shift part of the state's teacher pension costs to the counties, though at a more gradual pace than proposed by Gov. Martin O'Malley.

State aid to public schools and universities could be slashed, 500 state jobs abolished and local law enforcement grants eliminated under a "doomsday" budget prepared for the Maryland Senate to show the impact of a budget balanced without tax increases.

A whopping budget battle is shaping up in Annapolis, where the leaders of the House of Delegates and Senate floated widely divergent proposals Friday to raise income taxes as part of a plan to close a $1 billion shortfall

The legalization of medical marijuana in Maryland will be a topic of conversation in Annapolis again this legislative session, as…

A plan being pushed by leaders in Baltimore and Annapolis would provide up to $1 million for the Baltimore state's attorney's office to rent space a few blocks from the courthouse.

Campaign finance reports filed Tuesday in Maryland's 6th Congressional District race showed that one Democratic challenger has outraised incumbent GOP Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett more than three-to-one.

A group of lawmakers put aside the partisanship that often prevails in Annapolis to announce a common agenda of bills Thursday that both Democrats and Republicans could rally around.

Gov. Martin O'Malley will propose a groundbreaking shift in pension costs to local governments, a phase-out of income tax deductions for high earners and spending cuts to Medicaid as part of a plan to chop Maryland's long-term deficit by more than half in the next year, legislative sources said.

Despite months of speculation that he would retire rather than face a tough re-election, Republican Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett appears to be mounting something of a political comeback as he begins to gear up for a race that will be among the most closely watched in the nation.

The Sun's advocacy for research into medical marijuana is absurd.

The head of the state¿s Republican party announced Tuesday he will not run for Congress in Maryland¿s competitive 6th congressional district and instead will support the GOP incumbent, Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett.

The Sun mischaracterizes one proposal on medical marijuana and overstates the benefits of another.

Nearly a half dozen Maryland state lawmakers are hoping to exploit the nation's anti-incumbent mood with campaigns for Congress that focus heavily on Washington's dysfunction.

Before Maryland enacts a law providing for widespread availability of medical marijuana, it should set up a program for research into the drug's effectiveness and risks.

A state panel charged with making recommendations on medical marijuana presented two divergent plans, failing to agree on the controversial issue that state lawmakers will likely debate next year.

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Penn National Gaming has begun its push to bring slots to Rosecroft Raceway, releasing Wednesday two studies showing that the Prince George's County track would generate at least $346 million in tax revenue in the first year of a slots operation.

Maryland finished the fiscal year with $990 million in unspent funds, showing an end-of-year surplus that was about 50 percent higher than expected, according to a memo obtained by The Sun.

As proposals for Maryland's medical marijuana program take shape, the state expects academic centers such as Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland to run it to limit misuse.