A few Maryland government and politics headlines for Monday.

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LAUREL — Nearly 7,000 speeding tickets have been issued to drivers on the Intercounty Connector since it opened in November, 2011. That’s according to documents obtained by WTOP, which reports that nearly 200 of the tickets were to drivers traveling ...

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Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. has plopped the burden of pushing a transportation funding plan through the General Assembly squarely on the shoulders of Gov. Martin O'Malley.

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ANNAPOLIS — A Bethesda-based contractor has been picked to build the $89 million final leg of the Inter-County Connector. ICC Constructors, a joint venture consisting of Shirley Contracting Co. LLC, Clark Construction Group LLC, Facchina Construction Co. Inc. and Trumbull ...

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What were the biggest news stories of 2011? Race cars zooming around the Inner Harbor? Potential promised (new development in Owings Mills) or potential unrealized (development in East Baltimore, the future of horse racing in Maryland)? Maybe it can be ...

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The long-debated, long-awaited, long-constructed Intercounty Connector opened in its 18.8-mile entirety just in time for the annual Thanksgiving traffic scrum. On the drawing boards for decades, the six-lane toll road links Interstate 270 in Montgomery County with Interstate 95 in ...

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GAITHERSBURG — Officials say everything went smoothly on opening day for approximately 11 miles of a new toll road linking Montgomery and Prince George’s counties. The section of the Intercounty Connector that opened Tuesday runs from Georgia Avenue to just ...

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The second stretch of the $2.6 billion Inter-County Connector will open in time for the morning rush hour on Nov. 22, according to the Maryland Transportation Authority. The highway, officially named Maryland 200, runs through the Washington suburbs, linking Gaithersburg ...

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Gov. Martin O’Malley tapped Harold Bartlett on Tuesday to run the Maryland Transportation Authority, the toll agency that has been under fire recently for raising the cost to drive its tunnels, bridges and highways. Bartlett is a veteran of the ...

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The Maryland Transportation Authority approved sweeping toll hikes Thursday, a move that riled drivers and truckers who use the authority’s bridges, tunnels and highways. The first increase will hit Nov. 1 for most drivers, and the second, July 1, 2013. ...

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