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- President Trump blames California wildfires on failure to divert river water - a bit of misinformation that transcends the bizarre.
- California's governor points out (accurately) that illegal border crossings are down while Trump stokes racist fear of 'breeding.'
- Pharma balked when Maryland tried to regulate prescription drug costs; now they have to contend with California.
- The syrphid fly, commonly known as a flower fly or hover fly, feeds on nectar and pollen, making it a good pollinator.
- David Horsey: The Trump administration is running into its own wall of resistance; its called the West Coast.
- Today in Paris during the United Nations climate change talks, three U.S. governors committed to climate leadership by signing a memorandum of understanding with the French Embassy.
- California Gov. Jerry Brown has reason to appreciate the saying that what goes around, comes around. Some 38 years after coping with a massive drought in the Golden State in his first governorship, he's beleaguered again by the same natural disaster.
- "The San Francisco Mafia" dominates California's Democratic Party, says David Horsey.
- Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley has issued about 150 pardons to convicted offenders over the past three years, after rarely exercising his power to grant clemency in his first term. But despite the uptick, the governor has remained stingy when considering clemency, rejecting nearly 1,300 cases that came across his desk.
- Why is Martin O'Malley running for the democratic presidential nomination when everyone on the planet knows it belongs to Hillary Clinton?
- Maryland will continue to give its annual tests to students this year, at a cost of $9 million, even though it does not expect to use the results to gauge school progress.
- We politely decline Texas Gov. Rick Perry's offer of low wage jobs with no benefits.
- The University of Maryland University College expects to be among the first wave of schools this academic year awarding transfer credit to those who have taken -- and can prove they learned from -- certain "massive open online courses," known as MOOCs.
- A New Jersey judge heard arguments Thursday over whether the state should be required to legalize same-sex marriage in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision on the Defense of Marriage Act.
- Can Gov. Jerry Brown rebuild public education in California?
- California Gov. Jerry Brown is back and at the top of his game.
- Governor bets a case of National Bohemian on Super Bowl; local brewers nonplussed
- Self-driving cars are the latest examples of machines taking over what people used to do
- Maryland is moving away from the Supreme Court on issue of juvenile parole
- O'Malley defends Obama's handling of the economy on 'Face the Nation,' gets in zingers at GOP candidates.