u s house committee on ways and means

• Baltimore City Paper

Best Exploitation of a Surname

• Maryland

Charles Lane: Switch to taxing consumption

• Maryland

Spending patch falls short [Editorial]

• Politics

Congress faces tough choices, tight timeline for highway funding

Congress returns to work Monday facing a tight deadline to fund highway and road projects across the country, an election-year scramble that has injected uncertainty into state and local construction plans at the start of the summer driving season.

• Howard County

Howard County Times' picks for state races in the primary elections [Endorsements]

The Howard County Times and Columbia Flier endorsed candidates running in contested races in the Maryland primary on June 24.

• Maryland

Republican Ron George focuses campaign on economy

• Baltimore City Paper

Final Stretch

• Politics

GOP candidates take aim at Democrats

In their only scheduled debate on Baltimore television, the four Republican candidates for governor depicted Maryland as overtaxed and overspent under a Democratic administration, creating a climate in which businesses are fleeing to neighboring states.

• Politics

GOP's George says he fought 300 proposed tax increases

Del. Ron George's first campaign ad in the governor's race claims he fought more than 300 proposed tax increases

• Opinion

One-quarter of a job done [Editorial]

Missing 75 percent of committee votes deserves a better explanation than Delegate Jon Cardin has so far offered his constituents

• Politics

Jon Cardin missed nearly 75% of committee votes in Annapolis

Del. Jon Cardin, the front-runner to become Maryland's next attorney general, missed nearly 75 percent of the votes in his Annapolis committee this year.

• Maryland

Under the Dome: Level of debate in House goes to pot

• Politics

Film credit cash could come with strings attached

• Maryland

House panel OKs increase for film tax credit, permits DBED to recoup funds if shows leave

• Politics

What to expect during today's General Assembly session

Here are some of the things expected to happen as the General Assembly goes into one's the body's busiest days of the session.

• Anne Arundel

Weekend jail will keep Dwyer from voting on session's final Saturday

The Maryland House of Delegates will meet Saturday to vote on dozens of bills on the last weekend of the 2014 General Assembly session, including measures to decriminalize marijuana and ban grain alcohol.

• Maryland

Film tax credit expected to get $18.5 million; House committee vote expected Friday

• Politics

Film tax credit deal near

• Maryland

General Assembly conference committee kills "House of Cards" eminent domain provision

• Maryland

House committee vote on Maryland film tax credit expected later this week

• Maryland

Md. senator proposes bill that would ease rules on school days lost to bad weather

• Maryland

Simonaire introduces bill to question Busch's removal of Dwyer from committee

• Maryland

Kevin Spacey to appear in Annapolis as lawmakers consider film tax credit hike

• Maryland

Carroll delegation bills in limbo as crossover day looms

• Maryland

Carroll legislators propose more than 50 bills in Annapolis

• Maryland

Editorial: Time can't erase memories

• Maryland

House passes bills to raise Maryland estate tax exemption, earned income tax credit

• Maryland

Charles Lane: Market-based approach to tax changes

• Maryland

Jim Lee: Hold officials accountable for results

• Maryland

Tom Zirpoli: It takes all kinds to legislate

• Maryland

Local lawmakers support delaying or halting further Common Core implementation

• Maryland

State stands against proposals to delay Common Core, committee hears more Arundel bills

• Maryland

House GOP, Craig push tax relief with plans to cut personal income tax

• Maryland

Legislature starts debate over leadership's estate tax idea

• Maryland

Editorial: Testing waiver warranted

• Maryland

Teachers spar with Maryland Department of Education over MSAs

• Baltimore City Paper

Rawlings-Blake's Annapolis agenda heavy on anti-crime proposals this year

• Maryland

Bill could offer alternate funding method for Maryland public schools

• Politics

Supporters of legal marijuana launch drive in Annapolis

Advocates of legalizing marijuana launched their effort to change the law in Maryland Thursday, calling the war on drugs a failure and pointing to growing public support for their cause.

• Maryland

Dwyer apologizes to House of Delegates

• Maryland

Removing Dwyer would set precedent, delegates say

• Baltimore County

Towson-area legislators to tackle hybrid school board again

State legislators from the Towson area will again focus their attention on adding elected members to the Baltimore County Board of Education when the 434

• Opinion

No to tax breaks for military retirees [Editorial]

Lieutenant governor's plan to exempt most military pensions from state taxes may make him popular with vets but it's not prudent for Maryland

• Health

Md. health exchange working better, but glitches remain

Maryland has resolved many of the problems with its new health insurance exchange and more people are signing up, officials said Tuesday, though they acknowledged that a number of glitches remain.

• Politics

Anti-gay-marriage group says it was targeted by IRS

A leading opponent of the effort to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland used a high-profile congressional hearing Tuesday to allege that the IRS leaked a list of its donors to an adversarial group just as it was mounting a campaign to put gay marriage on the ballot.

• Politics

Delaney looks to infrastructure funding in first bill

Maryland's newest member of the House of Representatives introduced his first bill on Wednesday, a new infrastructure funding proposal that has won bipartisan support in an otherwise divided Congress.

• Harford

Room tax dies again, as Harford legislators play 'defense' on other legislation

As the 2013 legislative session winds down for the Harford County delegation in Annapolis, local lawmakers said they have been kept busy this year with prominent bills like those repealing the death penalty and issuing stricter gun control measures.

• Crime

In Anne Arundel, tax refunds lure people with outstanding warrants to come clean

A waiting tax refund apparently is a good incentive, the Anne Arundel County Sheriff's Office is finding.

• Anne Arundel

Anne Arundel delegation backs mix of elected, appointed seats on school board

The Anne Arundel County Delegation on Friday voted in favor of a bill that would change the makeup the of county's school board from all-appointed to elected and appointed, said House Delegate Steve Schuh, the bill's co-sponsor.

• Harford

Harford board narrowly supports statewide school security legislation

Efforts by the Maryland General Assembly to improve reporting, coordination among school districts and other measures to bolster school security around the state prompted a spirited discussion among members of the Harford County Board of Education Monday about the role of state government in local education matters.