With roughly three weeks left in the session, legislators spent Monday scurrying to move bills from the House to the Senate and vice versa in an attempt to beat the deadline known as crossover day.

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Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has been Baltimore’s chief executive for more than four years, and her national profile has skyrocketed in large part because of television appearances in her relatively new role as secretary of the Democratic National Committee.

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ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland Senate has approved the state’s $39 billion budget. The Senate voted 41-6 for the budget bill on Thursday. All 35 Senate Democrats and six Republicans voted for the measure. Six Republicans voted against it. The Senate ...

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Baltimore County Public Schools could be forced to abandon its practice of contracting roofing repairs through a Pennsylvania-based government consortium under a bill being considered in the Maryland General Assembly.

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Don’t read too much into the Sunday political talk show appearances. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said she isn’t running for another job and will seek re-election in two years.

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With a bipartisan vote of 120-13, the House of Delegates passed a bill Friday to raise the estate tax exemption threshold over the next five years.

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Critics of a bill banning the use of public university money to pay for memberships and travel related to organizations calling for the boycotting of countries such as Israel say the legislation is a violation of the First Amendment and academic freedoms.

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Del. Heather Mizeur says if her opponents in the gubernatorial race truly want to end the foreclosure crisis, they should work with her new foreclosure relief bill.

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Implementation of the Common Core State Standards has been rocky and uneven across Maryland, and state officials want a new workgroup that would take a closer look at each district's needs.

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A deadline is approaching for Maryland candidates to file a financial disclosure statement, if they filed a certificate of candidacy last year for this year's primary.

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