ANNAPOLIS — All expanded polystyrene products used for packaging food products, including foam carriers, could be banned from all Maryland food businesses if pending legislation is passed in the General Assembly this session.The legislation, sponsored in the House by Del. Brooke ...
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Read More »ANNAPOLIS — Despite Maryland’s apparent prosperity, the state has a perennial budget problem. Maryland is in the top 10 for average annual wage and an unemployment rate a half-percent below the national average. But it also has a structural deficit ...
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ANNAPOLIS – Bills that would hold accountable those whose products cause lead poisoning, and taking lead out of drinking water, are moving through legislative committees in the Maryland General Assembly this session. The House Judiciary Committee heard testimony Wednesday on ...
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Read More »ANNAPOLIS — After months of Gov. Larry Hogan publicly criticizing a transportation transparency law last year that he refers to as the “Road Kill Bill,” one lawmaker has introduced his own interpretation. Del. Marc Korman, D-Montgomery, decided a bill was ...
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Read More »ANNAPOLIS — Legislation advancing in the Maryland General Assembly would enable a court to revoke the parental rights of an individual found to have committed rape against the other parent if a court finds that it is in the child’s ...
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ANNAPOLIS — Seeking to rally support for the creation of an independent, non-partisan committee to handle redistricting, Gov. Larry Hogan Friday called the state’s current partisan redistricting process “disgraceful” and lambasted the legislature for not acting to implement reforms. Hogan has made passage ...
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ANNAPOLIS – Supporters and detractors alike gathered in Annapolis to testify about two marijuana legalization bills being heard by the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee Thursday afternoon. Sen. Brian Feldman, D-Montgomery, is sponsoring a proposed referendum on an amendment to ...
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ANNAPOLIS — More than 1,000 private school students and chaperones greeted and cheered Gov. Larry Hogan’s arrival down the steps of the Maryland State House on Nonpublic School Advocacy day Thursday morning. Students from 12 Maryland counties and Baltimore ...
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WASHINGTON — As retired Olympic shot putter Adam Nelson told his story, fellow Olympian and retired swimmer Michael Phelps’ eyes filled with tears. “So unfair. So, so unfair,” Phelps said Tuesday in front of a House subcommittee. Nelson won the ...
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Read More »ANNAPOLIS — A Democrat-backed earned-leave bill is headed to the House floor after being given a favorable report from the House Economic Matters Committee. The bill had failed last year, after dying in a Senate committee. Gov. Larry Hogan’s related ...
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