Cardin's proposal, if passed into law, would impose a $200 per pack fine on any store selling cigarettes that do not have biodegradable filters beginning Jan. 1, 2015.

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In a open message to the party posted on Facebook, Bongino criticizes establishment Republicans for selling out party principles.

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Maryland's health care insurance exchange may have gotten off to a more than slightly rocky start but Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown believes the site is improving almost daily.

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Reporters expecting to cover the 2014 General Assembly session will have to submit to a criminal background check, under new rules issued by the governor's office and the Department of General Services. A draft of the guidelines obtained by The Daily Record state that all reporters currently holding press credentials through the state, even if they have not yet expired, will have to apply for the new badges.

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Democratic candidates for governor in Maryland are clearly focusing on the minority achievement gap in Maryland. Anthony Brown, Doug Gansler and Heather Mizeur all have proposed some form of expansion of preschool with Mizeur wanting to pay for her plan with tax proceeds from legalizing marijuana.

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Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz isn't in any rush to endorse a candidate for governor in the Democratic primary.

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The chairman of the Baltimore County Republican Central Committee said he will ask fellow Republicans to support a resolution that would call on elected members of the party to resign their public offices if they are convicted of a crime and incarcerated.

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Larry Hogan, chairman of Change Maryland, plans to tell an expected audience of about 1,100 people that he is considering a run for governor in 2014.

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The plan proposed by the Democratic candidate for governor would face a (dare we say it) chronic shortfall beginning in the fourth year.

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A former delegate from Montgomery County said Tuesday she plans to seek the state Senate seat currently held by fellow Democratic Sen. Jennie Forehand.

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