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Don't tell Iowa caucus voters, but ethanol is an expensive environmental nightmare, Jonah Goldberg writes. - This month, Maryland banned high-proof liquors like Everclear and other inexpensive tipples. Self-proclaimed public health activists claimed such "high octane" liquors increased the likelihood of binge-drinking and sexual assaults on college campuses. While the merits of the ban are debatable, one aspect of it is not: the use of taxpayer money to support a political agenda.
- Today Maryland joins other states in halting the sale of grain alcohol due to health concerns and a push from university presidents.
- The Harford County Sheriff's Office and Maryland State Police report:
- Vowing to strengthen Maryland's middle class, Gov. Martin O'Malley signed legislation Monday that will gradually raise the state's minimum wage to $10.10 an hour – his No. 1 priority for the final legislative session of his eight years in office.
- Grain alcohol would be outlawed in Maryland under a bill that passed the House Thursday.
- Banning grain alcohol in Maryland is not a "slippery slope" campaign against alcohol. Prohibition is not returning. This is about preventing young people — many at an age when their brains are not fully developed — from unknowingly ingesting a tasteless, odorless product that can double as a cleaning solvent.
- College presidents should better supervise their students if they want to cut down on campus drinking
- Grain alcohol, the cheap, potent booze that has been a staple at college parties for generations, could be outlawed in Maryland as university presidents press lawmakers to ban it.
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- Biofuel policy is costing U.S. too much in food prices and jobs
- Our ability to break our dependence on foreign oil is threatened by the effort to repeal the Renewable Fuel Standard.
- The first Harford County farm fair in 26 years attracted more than 40,000 people to the equestrian center in Bel Air, a crowd that far exceeded organizers' expectations, who were hoping for 15,000.
- Your holiday cookout is costing more, thanks to the high price of diverting corn to ethanol production
- AAA wants sale of E15 blocked for now
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- Drought-related corn prices shouldn't be used as excuse to step back from renewable energy
- Baltimore Police have charged at least one man in the Aug. 10 double shooting in Mount Vernon that killed one man and injured another, according to the department's twitter account.
- Corn-based ethanol fuel won't solve our energy problems
- Attacks on U.S. biofuel industry are inaccurate and unwarranted
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- Drought, low corn yield force reconsideration of the Renewable Fuel Standard for ethanol
- With drought-fueled corn prices threatening to clobber consumers, it's time to ease the federal ethanol mandate
- Construction at the Shell on the 900 block of Frederick Road to make underground tanks more compatible with gasoline-ethanol blends.
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- Environmentalism in the U.S. is stalled, with even President Obama an unreliable ally
- Perry Hall man charged with selling $9 million worth of credits for nonexistent renewable fuel
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- Recycling and other efforts to be launched in first year, but air pollution worries some
- Ethanol is no hoax but a viable domestic source of energy that is cleaner than oil
- Karen Hosler writes that the great environmental hope has been exposed as a hoax; conservation is a better bet than magic elixirs
- Maryland's thoroughbred industry is pushing back on a proposal in Congress to eliminate a $126 million tax carve out for horse racing as part of the deficit reduction effort.
