Maryland residents interested in how the legislative sausage is made may soon have more options to follow bills in the General Assembly under a number of proposed changes to the rules and laws guiding the House of Delegates and Senate.

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WASHINGTON — At least two congressional panels are planning more hearings next week on the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. Underscoring how the IRS controversy is spreading, 25 tea party and conservative groups filed a ...

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General Assembly leaders will hold a joint briefing in June to discuss problems at Maryland's correctional facilities, the latest fallout from a sordid jail scandal revolving around drugs, sex and money in Baltimore.

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NEW YORK — Major League Baseball pitched an arbitration shutout. Reliever Darren O’Day completed a $5.8 million, two-year contract with the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, becoming the 133rd and final player to settle without a hearing among the 133 who ...

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WASHINGTON — A judge has ruled that hearings in the 2001 Chandra Levy murder case will continue to be closed to the public and the news media. The hearings have been held behind closed doors over the last several weeks ...

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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — An approaching storm prompted the U.S. military to place its base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, under an alert Wednesday and cancel several days of pretrial hearings in the case of five prisoners charged in ...

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It’s shaping up to be a busy day around State Circle. For starters, the Senate is slated to begin debate today on the budget proposal that came out of the chamber’s Budget and Taxation Committee last week, and separate measures ...

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If it’s the end of daylight-saving time, it’s budget time in Baltimore. And with a projected $50 million budget shortfall for 2012, many in city government are already singing the blues. That’s expected to be the case during two budget ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A panel on legislative redistricting in Maryland is planning to release a schedule of public hearings. The chairwoman of the five-member Governor’s Redistricting Advisory Committee is working toward releasing Friday the schedule of hearings around the state. In ...

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In the early 1980s, when I was a new reporter for The Baltimore Sun, I tried to get some information from the Peale Museum. I couldn’t have it, I was told. The museum was a quasi-public institution under no obligation ...

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