Resolution is a term that gets thrown around pretty liberally at the beginning of the year. Millions of Americans entered 2013 making resolutions to change their lives in some fashion and use the turning of the calendar as the catalyst. Congress had another type of resolution in its sights when it set out to address the fiscal cliff.

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Periodically, the moment known as spring cleaning arrives. We scour out closets and garages and attics, and rid ourselves of accumulated bric-a-brac, of objects that (rightly or wrongly) seemed like good ideas when we acquired them, but no longer do. Garage sales, passing things along to Goodwill, and just putting junk out on the curb for the sanitation workers — all these tactics are vital to our domestic success. If we didn’t cull and toss the accumulated flotsam now and then, it would eventually render our homes impassable and uninhabitable.

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Seven in eight decisions issued by the Court of Special Appeals (“COSA”) are “unpublished.” That means that the opinion cannot be cited (except for preclusion purposes), and that it lacks precedential value. Moreover, the opinions are not only unpublished, but are unavailable to the general public.

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Don’t give up on government. Sometimes, more often than you may think, the citizen will be heard. And difficult problems will be solved.

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Sen. Brian Frosh has been an advocate for the humane treatment of animals, and we look forward to working with him and his colleagues in the General Assembly to address the Maryland Court of Appeals’ dangerous ruling on pit bull dogs

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Jon Meacham, the author of a recently published biography of Thomas Jefferson, cites with approval a quote from Mark Twain: “History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”

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Maryland must be flush with cash, because many state legislators are eager to give tuition breaks to people who are in this country illegally. According to the fiscal note accompanying the in-state-tuition bill now under consideration, Maryland taxpayers will have ...

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The Maryland State Bar Association must turn its attention to the problems associated with the sale and use of illegal drugs. The MSBA is urged to establish a Drug Policy Project to study Maryland’s current law and practice in drug ...

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