WASHINGTON — Business leaders are taking sides with Democratic President Barack Obama after failing to persuade their traditional Republican allies in Congress to avert a government shutdown. Obama, whose health care and regulatory agenda they have vigorously opposed, is embracing ...

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Members of the Maryland General Assembly earn more than your average state lawmaker, but they're not exactly diving into vaults full of state money when they go home.

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WASHINGTON — The former spy agency contractor who fled to Hong Kong to leak U.S. secrets said he’s not there to hide from justice and has faith in “the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate.” “I ...

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The Harbor Point project could be another uplifting chapter in Baltimore’s cycle of decline and rebirth.

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Now comes the cliche “wake-up call.” That phone’s been ringing in the matter of bridge repair for years. Catastrophes aren’t waiting to happen.

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The Baltimore City Detention Center, built in the Civil War era, needs to be demolished and replaced, a lawmaker who toured the jail with a small group of Republican legislators said Friday. The lockup has been under scrutiny since last ...

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Dr. Andres Alonso, who resigned this week as Baltimore schools superintendent, turned his alchemist’s hand on the trust issue in Annapolis.

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An investigation by federal authorities tended to validate his claims. He was, according to the authorities, turning the jail into a criminal enterprise.

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Bloomberg LP, a global financial news and business information company, is hosting an economic summit in Washington on April 30, and the only two current lawmakers to speak at the meeting are both from Maryland.

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As state lawmakers took a last look at Baltimore’s 30-year plan to pay for school renovations last month, members of the Budget and Taxation Committee joked that 47-year-old Sen. Richard S. Madaleno Jr. would be president of the Senate by the time the projects were paid for.

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