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The American Gaming Association says bettors will "illegally" spend $3.8 billion on a dizzying array of Super Bowl bets. - In matters of clean air and water, elder Hogan set the bipartisan example for Maryland's governor
- WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama revived his call Thursday for an end to deep cuts in federal spending, an appeal that fell squarely in the divide between Republicans in Congress who want to rein in costs and those who want to boost the Pentagon's budget.
- This week's reversal on college savings plans demonstrates both the challenge of financing higher education and of finding support for broader tax reforms
- Benjamin Netanyahu needs to maintain Congressional support for sanctions on Iran.
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- House Republicans are considering significant changes to the way billions of dollars in National Institutes of Health grants are awarded to research institutions under a sweeping proposal unveiled Tuesday intended to speed medical breakthroughs.
- After Netanyahu, who should Congress invite next to tell it what to do?
- The Obama administration proposed Tuesday opening the waters off the Atlantic coast for oil and gas drilling for the first time in more than 30 years, drawing fire from environmentalists and many East Coast lawmakers about the potential for spills to harm the Chesapeake Bay and resorts like Ocean City. Industry officials, though, expressed disappointment more areas weren't being offered for exploration.
- Washington's longtime budget woes require both tax reform and reductions in non-discretionary spending
- GOP wins will show voters the consequences of staying home as the nation lurches to the right
- From housing to community college tuition, this 'middle class' retiree sees only harm in the president's tax proposals
- Republican credibility on national security was obliterated by the Bush-Cheney administration, and their reckless, strategically disastrous, $2 trillion invasion of Iraq. And now House Majority leader John Boehner has put a nail in the coffin of GOP weakness on major national security issues with his flippant and dishonorable invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address the Congress of the United States on the most critical foreign policy issue now facing the United States:
- The GOP has a new diva: Joni Ernst, the just-elected United State senator from the cornfields of Iowa.
- From Washington to Annapolis, newly-elected leaders are taking us in a backward direction
- Sparing more of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil production is a welcome move and not a 'war' on Alaskans
- Putting aside any optimism that the Republicans in Congress would somehow be afflicted with sweet reasonableness now that they hold the majority in both houses, President Obama has signaled that in his last two years in office he will more fully embrace the liberal Democratic agenda.
- Changes in Congress, a new governor and the resignation of the man who oversees the federal government's real estate portfolio will not endanger Maryland's quest to become the new home for the FBI and its 11,000 employees, state leaders say.
- President Obama has a particular weakness for the logical fallacy known as the argument from authority, says Jonah Goldberg.
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- Lawyers who launched a fair-lending case in Baltimore against Wells Fargo that ended with a $175 million settlement three years ago had an effective weapon in their arsenal: a federal legal standard recognizing discrimination by effect as well as intent. Today, local housing advocates are concerned that this long-standing Fair Housing Act protection is in jeopardy as the U.S. Supreme Court weighs a challenge to it.
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- The GOP is likely to push back on the president's Robin Hood proposal to tax the rich, says Jules Witcover.
- Facing an aging population and steady growth in disability claims, the Social Security Administration said Thursday it will expand hours at neighborhood offices across the country — reversing a years-long reduction in service that has frustrated the public and lawmakers.
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- GOP's strong showing in Dundalk doesn't mean the party will always win there
- Automakers say fuel-sipping cars are a tough sell these days but a drop in gas prices doesn't justifying relaxing mileage standards
- The governor-elect threw some red meat — but only a little — into an inauguration heavy on themes of inclusiveness and cooperation.
- Larry Hogan says his relationship with his father might make it tough to finish his inauguration speech Wednesday.
- President Barack Obama outlined an aggressive agenda in his State of the Union address on Tuesday that drew a sharp contrast with the new Republican majority in Congress and set up the potential for a tumultuous two years leading into the next presidential election.
- House effort to tie DHS funding to a reversal of President Obama's immigration orders looks like another empty gesture from the GOP
- State-of-the-Union plan to raise capital gains and inheritance taxes on the most affluent Americans while reducing taxes for the middle class should provoke a much-needed conversation
- It's worth re-examining the balance of power between the mayor and council.
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- Saudis are keeping oil prices low to undercut U.S. and Canadian oil producers, writes David Horsey.
- Without action by Congress, federal funding to support community health providers will be drastically cut — by as much as 70 percent. In Maryland, these community providers — or Federally Qualified Health Centers — stand to lose more than $25 million in federal funding beginning in mid-2015. That will result in a loss of access to care for between 29,000 and 34,500 people in our state. These are people who live in Baltimore City and its suburbs, around Washington, D.C., and in
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- President Barack Obama surprised lunchtime diners at a Baltimore café on Thursday with an unannounced stop to promote a proposal to guarantee paid sick leave to all American workers.
- It is wishful thinking to believe that the renewal of diplomatic relations with Cuba will lead to removal of the embargo. Only Congress can suspend the Helms-Burton Act — a law that requires a transition to democracy in Cuba, restitution of confiscated property of U.S. citizens and the absence from power of both Castro brothers.
- Paying for college today has become a complex maze with the potential to stop low and moderate income students and families in their tracks, before a college application is ever submitted.
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- WASHINGTON — A controversial tax on medical devices and a requirement that companies offer health coverage for employees who work a shortened week are being targeted for repeal by the new Republican Congress, an indication the party remains committed to undercutting "Obamacare."
