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- There could potentially be another Maryland General Assembly special session July 9
- It's unlikely a special session will be called this summer to pass legislation authorizing a sixth casino in Prince George's County and sending the issue to voters in November.
- House Speaker Michael E. Busch left the door open Thursday to continued efforts to reach an agreement on expanded gambling in time to call a special legislative session this summer, saying he expects to talk with the governor and Senate president to try to resolve the remaining issues.
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- Gambling work group meets in private, makes folks wait
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- The following letter was sent Monday by Harford County Executive David Craig to John Morton III, chairman of a group appointed by the governor to study gaming expansion in Maryland:
- Harford County Executive David Craig says he wants his county to be considered as a future casino gambling site.
- Harford County Executive David R. Craig has asked a state work group studying gambling expansion to consider Harford as a casino site despite the proximity of an existing slots parlor in neighboring Cecil County.
- Senate President Mike Miller and House Speaker Mike Busch each picked three representatives to a state work group that will consider gambling expansion, but neither one selected legislators from Prince George's County, the proposed location for a sixth state casino.
- The Howard County Council's lone Republican member Greg Fox has had five straight years of 'no' votes on the budget, and this year is likely to be his sixth, given the increase in the fire tax rate County Executive Ken Ulman has proposed.
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Maryland's slots work group can't make a good judgment in time for a July 9 special legislative session. -
- A Salisbury man was arrested Wednesday in as part of nationwide, coordinated seizure of 50 individuals prosecutors say are involved in a Puerto Rico-based identity trafficking ring, according to the federal immigration agency.
- John Stewart Morton Jr., a retired real estate and insurance executive, died Aug. 3 of kidney failure at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. He was 92.
- John Stewart Morton Jr., a retired real estate and insurance executive, died Aug. 3 of kidney failure at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. He was 92.
- Maryland Stadium Authority approves street modifications for IRL race
