A free-speech challenge to a Maryland state agency’s ban on financial solicitations on Lawyers’ Mall could come down to whether the site – at the foot of the State House and the feet of Thurgood Marshall’s statue – is an ...

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ANNAPOLIS – The ACLU of Maryland filed suit Thursday against the Department of General Services, saying DGS’s ban on financial solicitations on Lawyers’ Mall – a popular site for political protest at the foot of the State House – violates ...

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Gov. Larry Hogan Tuesday announced the appointment of a new Department of General Services secretary. He didn’t have to look far to find a candidate. Ellington Churchill, Jr., 46, the deputy secretary of Housing and Community Development, has been tapped to ...

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A. Leigh Williams, the director Maryland Energy Administration, is changing roles less than a year after Gov. Larry Hogan appointed her to lead the agency tasked with setting policy on reducing energy consumption in the state.

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ANNAPOLIS — The governor’s mansion in Maryland appears pristine and well-kept, with new flowers and clean landscaping. Just across the street, a national historic landmark — the state Capitol — sits among piles of unraked leaves, weeds and untrimmed bushes. ...

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There are bloodsucking parasites lurking on the fourth floor of the Preston Street office of the Maryland comptroller. And it’s those parasites — bedbugs, specifically — that have caused a great deal of angst among employees and caused the state ...

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Language justifying an expansion of the state Office of Public Defender's Towson office lease was based on a previous staffing expansion.

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The state’s primary procurement agency should have restructured or rebid a five-year, $305 million fuel contract when it received only one bid that fulfilled all the requirements, auditors for the General Assembly concluded in a report released Friday.

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ANNAPOLIS — A Georgia-based company will be responsible for the supply and distribution of fuel at state facilities, despite the strenuous objections of Comptroller Peter Franchot, who lamented that a Maryland company did not win the $305 million award. Mansfield ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Former Washington County lawmaker D. Bruce Poole, a member of the state slots commission, said black bears in Western Maryland turned gray while waiting on a license to be awarded for the construction of a slots casino at ...

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