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If President Obama is to get serious about climate change, he must reject Keystone XL pipeline - Senate president's plan for local add-on gas tax doesn't add up but spotlights Maryland's transportation shortfall
- Baltimore and Maryland's counties could impose their own 5-cents-a-gallon tax on gas to pay for local road projects under a proposal by Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller.
- Attempting to break a years-long stalemate over transportation revenue, Senate President Thomas V. Miller intends to introduce his own legislation this year to provide new funding for roads ands transit using methods that break out of Maryland's traditional formulas.
- Gov. Martin O'Malley has proposed funding the state's study of "fracking" for natural gas, ending a two-year legislative standoff over getting the industry to pay for it. He included $1.5 million in his fiscal 2014 budget "to provide citizens, business leaders and policymakers the research and data they need to fully consider the potential economic and ecological impacts of natural gas extraction in Maryland."
- After being thwarted the past two years by skittish lawmakers, Gov. Martin O'Malley is preparing once again to introduce a bill aimed at planting mammoth wind turbines off Ocean City — and the measure may finally pass, thanks to a shake-up in a committee that stifled it last year.
- Commanders at Fort Meade are cracking down on synthetic marijuana, a cheap, widely available and sometimes dangerous designer drug that has been linked to suicides and homicides.
- Community courses can boost your planning proficiency.
- The governor of Virginia has thrown a new wrinkle into a Maryland debate by calling for abolition of the commonwealth's gas tax and increasing the sales tax to pay for roads and transit – a move that would alter the competitive balance between the two states.
- The LXM Pro Challenge had its final stop on the 2012 tour Saturday night in Del Mar, Calif., and Team STX defeated Team Sole, 15-12, in their series' seventh game, a contest that featured nine lead changes and eight ties.
- U.S. senators are right to protect conservation fund
- Gun control, the abolition of the death penalty, a gas tax increase and offshore wind power will be just some of the topics on the agenda when the Maryland General Assembly convenes Wednesday in Annapolis.
- An advisory commission studying whether shale gas extraction should proceed in Maryland called Monday for new legislation to deal with potential abuses in leasing and drilling for the fuel, but environmentalists said so many questions remain about the safety of the drilling method known as "fracking" that they want lawmakers to impose a moratorium until the issue's been fully analyzed.
- A Calvert County judge brushed aside a potential legal hurdle to exporting liquefied natural gas via the Chesapeake Bay, ruling that Dominion, the Richmond, Va.-based energy company, does not need the Sierra Club's permission to convert its LNG import terminal at Cove Point.
- Timid Maryland lawmakers must face grim reality of state's transportation outlook and push the gas tax throttle
- There's no evidence fracking contaminates groundwater
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- Cal Thomas sees progress, and signs of American influence, on a visit to Vietnam
- In the first of too many accidents with multiple fatalities, three Fallston siblings were killed in a three-vehicle accident on Route 543 in Bel Air. Ashley, 24, David, 29, and Joseph Bauguess, 17, were all pronounced dead at the scene. The siblings were traveling south on Route 543 about a half mile south of Wheel Road when they crossed the double yellow center line.
- Lawmakers should mandate an industry-financed study of fracking on Western Maryland
- Harford Countians awoke to beautifully snow-covered grounds on Christmas morning. Snow began falling before daybreak early in the morning, making it truly a White Christmas
- More Maryland residents are planning holiday trips than last year, and most are traveling by automobile despite local gas prices that are the highest they have ever been at this time of year, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic.
- 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.
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- President must rally Americans to support climate change solutions
- A pioneering regional compact to fight climate change stands at a crossroads, as officials from Maryland and eight other Northeast states meet Tuesday in New York to weigh new limits on their power plants' carbon dioxide emissions.
- Environmental activists met at the University of Baltimore Saturday to organize a push for a legislative ban on the natural gas drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing — or fracking — casting the issue as a fight pitting the little guys versus the lobbyists.
- A new study predicts that exporting the nation's cheap, seemingly abundant supplies of natural gas will boost the U.S. economy, giving a nudge to prospects for shipping liquefied fuel abroad from a nearly idle terminal in the Chesapeake Bay.
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- National survey says 247 million shoppers made the retail rounds in person and online during Black Friday weekend, an increase of 9.2 percent over last year.
- After years of neglect, it's time lawmakers in Annapolis addressed Maryland's struggling transportation finances
- Route 24 opened 25 years ago from Edgewood to Bel Air
- Maryland should not embrace LNG and the environmental harm posed by more fracking
- Peter Morici says phony fixes for the impeding fiscal crisis could leave us worse off
- Two students at the Naval Academy and one person from Howard County are among the 2013 Rhodes Scholars.
- Responding to consumer demand, retailers have pushed up store openings to the end of Thanksgiving dinner, started online price wars in November and replaced door buster opening events with waves of sales targeting different consumers.
- Hess Corp. has agreed to buy eight duplexes in Loch Raven and demolish them to settle homeowners' claims of contamination from a nearby gas station, the company said Friday.
- Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. said Friday that winter heating bills for its residential customers who use natural gas will likely rise 11 percent over last year due to colder weather — still low enough to come in at the second-cheapest winter of the past decade.
- Every junk food junkie in America is watching closely as Hostess Brands -- locked in a dispute with striking workers -- threatens to go out of business. While we wait to see what will happen with the company, here are a few books to take your mind off the legal battle:
- With their tax loopholes and off-shore accounts, big corporations, Wall Street manipulators and the ultra-wealthy are the 'entitled'
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- Extremists on both sides insist on having their own 'facts'
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- After Obama's re-election, I've never been more proud of my country
- I'm ashamed of the country that elected Barack Obama president
