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More than 30 years after the first piles of muck dredged from Baltimore's harbor were used to create an island at the mouth of the Back River, state officials are opening 300 acres of Hart-Miller Island to public access. - Joseph J. "Sonny" Minnick, a retired restaurant owner who served in the Maryland House of Delegates and was a popular member of the Dundalk community, died of a blood disease Monday at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium
- While Larry Hogan triumphed in the Maryland governor's race, his fellow Republicans won legislative and the county council seats in Dundalk for the first time in decades, completing a dramatic partisan shift in one of the state's once reliably Democratic Party strongholds. The realignment culminated after years of disaffection and may create a lasting transformation.
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- Capitalizing on a GOP surge nationally, Maryland Republicans picked up several seats in the General Assembly where they have been the minority party for years.
- As early election results came in Tuesday night, Republicans were on track to pick up a seat on the Baltimore County Council, while Democratic County Executive Kevin Kamenetz was poised to win re-election by a wide margin.
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- Campaigns on Baltimore County's east side are still in full swing, but one outcome is already certain: For the first time in nearly half a century, voters get a new state senator.
- As Democrat Joe DiCara and Republican Todd Crandell face off in the general election, the race is drawing attention from state GOP leaders. They see the void left by Olszewski as an opportunity to make inroads in a Democratic stronghold.
- Maryland lawmakers are poised to raise the minimum wage and decriminalize marijuana Monday as this year's General Assembly's session cruises to a close at midnight.
- In a few weeks, once the Maryland legislative session is over, the political winds in the state will turn to the 2014 elections. It'll be about then that it will dawn on many voters that their legislative districts have changed
- Marking a generational shift in Baltimore County politics, Del. John A. Olszewski Jr. will announce Tuesday that he's running for the Dundalk-area Maryland Senate seat held by Sen. Norman R. Stone Jr. for almost 50 years.
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- Baltimore County prosecutors have accused Steven Douglas Podles of knowingly attempting to transmit the HIV virus to a teenager — a seldom-used, and often controversial, charge. But even as prosecutors prepare their case against Podles, the effectiveness of such laws is being debated by legislators and public health officials from Maryland to California.
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- A leading government watchdog organization called on the Maryland Senate to censure Sen. Ulysses B. Currie, the once-powerful budget committee chief who was acquitted of political corruption charges this week.
