ANNAPOLIS — The Senate rejected a floor amendment to freeze judges’ salaries at current levels Monday night as it cleared the way for final passage of a 3 percent pay raise over three years — an increase of up to ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Hundreds of state jobs would be eliminated and agencies would face across-the-board budget cuts should the Maryland Senate choose to pass a so-called “Doomsday Budget,” according to the state’s director of the Office of Policy Analysis in the ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland analysts have outlined nearly $800 million in additional budget cuts to fill budget gaps in case lawmakers can’t agree on new taxes or savings. Warren Deschenaux, director of the state’s Office of Policy Analysis, presented a wide-ranging ...

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It is unlikely the General Assembly would seriously consider a so-called doomsday budget proposal consisting of no new revenue streams and more than $1 billion in cuts, a public policy expert said Monday. “It’s not like this is the first ...

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It’s now all about the money in Annapolis. With the landmark approval of same-sex marriage legislation in the Senate last week, the 2012 Maryland General Assembly will turn its attention from one of the session’s biggest social issue bills to the ...

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