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The scorecard for venture-backed firms in Maryland looked great this week, while Maryland’s fight to curb the opioid crisis is stalled by a synthetic foe. Business writer Tim Curtis reported Tuesday that venture-backed firms in Maryland raised more than $1.12 ...

ANNAPOLIS – Legislation will soon be introduced to remove a controversial provision in Maryland family law that sharply reduces noncustodial parents’ child-support obligations once they have hosted their children overnight 128 times in a year. Opponents of the current provision ...

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When a Houston lawyer couldn't get a refund from Ticketmaster after buying 'Hamilton' tickets, he did what the namesake of the smash-hit Broadway musical would do. He wrote his way out.

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Gov. Larry Hogan’s FY 2020 budget, released Friday, should allow Maryland’s public universities to keep tuition low for in-state students. With the funding proposed, the universities should only raise tuition 2 percent next year for in-state students, University System of ...

An error in the so-called “Fund the Trust Act” raising Baltimore taxes to subsidize its Affordable Housing Trust Fund causes the law to only collect a fraction of the expected revenue. Mayor Catherine Pugh, City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” ...

A left-leaning budget policy think tank is calling for sweeping changes to the state's tax code to pay for billions in increased public education spending.

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ANNAPOLIS — State employees, including those belonging to a union feuding with Gov. Larry Hogan, will receive raises, and businesses and retirees could be in line for tax cuts and incentives under a nearly $20 billion general fund spending plan ...

Joseph, Greenwald & Laake, PA is expanding its family law practice with the addition of four attorneys from the former Rockville-based law firm Dragga Hannon LLP. The four attorneys who joined Joseph Greenwald as of Jan. 1 are Patrick W. ...

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If it can be said that what every first-term governor wants is a second term then one can also suppose that what every two-term governor wants, at least in states where the executive is term limited, is a shot at ...

Long-awaited updates to Maryland’s judicial discipline process will now go to the Court of Appeals for final approval after the committee in charge of amendments agreed on recommendations. The Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure submitted its report ...

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