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ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland General Assembly this year addressed the dangers posed by social media and increasingly realistic computer graphics in passing legislation to expand protections against on-line bullying of youngsters and to prevent child pornography in the digital age. ...

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Baltimore City Councilman Eric Costello expects colleagues to push legislation to reform city government, but he called holding hearings on charter amendments before summer 2020 a distraction. Costello serves as chairman of the Judiciary & Legislative Investigations Committee, which provides ...

Almost a third of public housing inspections in Maryland have resulted in failing health and safety scores. An analysis of federal data by The Associated Press shows that's the worst performance in the country.

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The Maryland General Assembly's annual 90-day session ended Monday at midnight. Here's a look at some of the measures that have been passed to Gov. Larry Hogan's desk so far:

These measures failed to pass during the 2019 General Assembly session: Asbestos mediation An effort by asbestos plaintiffs’ bar to require asbestos claims to be mediated by an executive branch agency drew fierce opposition. Even the fallback plan – a ...

ANNAPOLIS — Maryland’s General Assembly adjourned the 2019 session in silence. A 90-day session punctuated with the typical fare of education and environment and transportation and public safety bills was overshadowed by the death of the state’s longest serving leader ...

ANNAPOLIS – The final hour of the 2019 Maryland General Assembly session was marked by the quiet demise of measures calling for a study of ways to reduce a docket of thousands of pending asbestos-exposure lawsuits and to double from ...

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The Baltimore City Council is urging Mayor Catherine Pugh to resign.

A Maryland state audit says the liquor board of Prince George's County didn't properly inspect licensees or adequately respond to complaints.

  Michael E. Busch, the longest-serving speaker of the House of Delegates and a leader who presided over a series of transformative legislative initiatives in Maryland, passed away Sunday after his health rapidly deteriorated from a bout of pneumonia. He ...

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