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BALTIMORE — Motorists using two well-traveled Maryland bridges soon won’t be able to pay their way with coins or bills. Transportation officials announced Thursday that tolls on the Francis Scott Key and Thomas J. Hatem Memorial bridges will go cashless ...
Read More »Young orders audit of ABC’s contract with city
Baltimore’s acting mayor is ordering an audit of a city contract with a charitable organization that had purchased $80,000 of children’s books written by Mayor Catherine Pugh. Ex officio Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young announced Thursday that he directed the city Department ...
Read More »Van Hollen urging passage of education funding measure
Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen is scheduled to join Nevada Rep. Susie Lee to call for passage of a bill to promote public education funding.
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Read More »Del. Adrienne Jones running for Maryland speaker
Maryland's Speaker Pro Tem says she is running to be the next leader of Maryland's House of Delegates.
Read More »Vignarajah first of what may be many Democrats hoping to replace Pugh
Former Maryland Deputy Attorney General Thiru Vignarajah’s announcement Wednesday that he is running for Baltimore mayor makes him the first Democrat of note to launch a campaign following Mayor Catherine Pugh’s entanglement in an ethics controversy. But with Pugh on ...
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Read More »Progressives had their way in much of the 2019 General Assembly
ANNAPOLIS — Maryland’s 439th session of the General Assembly may go down as the session that set the tone for the remainder of the term. A more progressive legislature, one where nearly one-third of the members are new, passed bills ...
Read More »Maryland lawmakers pass opportunity zone stimulus
Maryland lawmakers ratified a bill backers hope will boost investment in state opportunity zones and correct flaws in the federal program. The 68-page legislation, SB 581, cobbles together policies pushed by a wide swath of players, including Republican Gov. Larry ...
Read More »Md. bill passes allowing prosecutors to vacate ‘unjust’ convictions
Though some “second chance” legislation failed to pass the General Assembly in 2019 despite years of pushes from advocates, a bill to provide a tool to prosecutors to vacate past unjust convictions gained bipartisan support and passed both chambers by the ...
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Read More »They Said It during the 2019 legislative session
The governor’s comments were absolutely nonsense. Nonsense, nonsense, nonsense, nonsense personified. Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr., responding to comments by Gov. Larry Hogan that public education had been a top priority of his administration. There’s nothing more ...
Read More »What passed, what failed during the Md. session
Here’s a look at measures passed by General Assembly during its 2019 session: Comptroller’s powers The legislature removed regulatory authority over alcohol, tobacco and gasoline from the comptroller’s office and placed it with a commission. Gov. Larry Hogan vetoed the ...
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