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A blue-ribbon panel calling for a sizeable increase in Maryland public school funding over the next 10 years still must decide what portions would be paid by the state and by local governments.

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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 – 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 ...

Tagged with: child support child-support guidelines family law kathleen dumais

A Maryland city has placed its police chief and another officer on leave after federal agents executed a search warrant at the department.

A Baltimore employee was found with hacking tools on his city computer, prompting the mayor to order a security review.

Maryland is getting a new political party.

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Maryland lawmakers are exploring a faster way to approve sports betting this year, but it's unclear if they will be able to do it without voter approval in 2020.

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GLEN BURNIE — Weeks after a Maryland county stopped alerting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement about the immigration status of its jail inmates, the federal agency is withdrawing from its contract to house detainees there — a decision that will cost the county millions in revenue.

Tagged with: 287(g) Anne Arundel County immigration and customs enforcement Steuart Pittman

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 ...

ANNAPOLIS — The state’s Office of Legislative Audits uncovered potential conflicts of interest among contracts made by a former Maryland Transit Administration employee, according to a report released Monday. The report presented evidence the unnamed MTA management employee had, through ...