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Maryland’s public education system is on the verge of major policy changes, but how to pay for those recommendations could elude lawmakers, many of whom ran for election promising to increase school funding. For many watching and participating in the ...

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A contract to expand two major highways using toll lanes will come before the Board of Public Works Wednesday, seven months after it was withdrawn because of the appearance of ethics issues. The board, chaired by Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, ...

Three casinos could get a reduction in the amount of taxes they pay to the state under a set of recommendations approved by the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Commission. Lawmakers will get the chance to review reductions approved Thursday by ...

Touting supermajority support, an environmental group said it is close to passage of a state law increasing the amount of electricity generated by wind and solar sources.

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A long-time spokesman for Gov. Larry Hogan is moving from the public to the private sector but won’t be leaving politics. Douglass Mayer, Hogan’s former communications director at the State House and later for the 2018 re-election campaign, will join Strategic ...

ANNAPOLIS — Maryland’s tax collector warned of an increased risk for an economic downturn and called for state leaders to sock away more than a billion dollars. Comptroller Peter Franchot made his cautionary comments as the Board of Revenue Estimates ...

LANDOVER — Gov. Larry Hogan Tuesday vowed to fund the vast majority of school construction and renovation projects around the state through a proposed $2 billion increase in state funding. “I believe very strongly that every single child in our ...

ANNAPOLIS — Some of the largest members of Maryland’s wholesale medical cannabis industry threatened legislative and legal action to thwart new advertising regulations passed by state regulators Thursday. The Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission unanimously passed the regulations, which will ultimately require ...

A forthcoming proposal to redraw one Maryland congressional district may be enough to satisfy a court order even if the legislature doesn’t act on it, according to a spokeswoman for Gov. Larry Hogan. Last week Hogan issued an executive order ...

Legislative leaders in the Maryland General Assembly say the odds on passing legislation to legalize sports betting are improving. Maryland lawmakers punted on legalizing sports betting as the clock ran out on the 2018 session. Meanwhile other neighboring states not ...