ANNAPOLIS — Maryland’s General Assembly has passed a measure that redistricts five Somerset County commissioner districts. Maryland’s House of Delegates passed the bill 135-1 on Tuesday. The emergency legislation will take effect when Gov. Martin O’Malley signs the bill later ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley has sent Maryland’s state legislative redistricting map to the General Assembly. O’Malley presented the map on Wednesday, the first day of the state’s 90-day legislative session. The map creates 12 districts that are majority African-American. ...

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Rural development and how to regulate it will be atop the General Assembly’s agenda again in 2012. The issue promises to be a replay of last session’s battle when legislation pushed by Gov. Martin O’Malley died after much debate and ...

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A panel of federal judges on Tuesday voided West Virginia’s congressional redistricting plan and told the Legislature and the governor that it would impose a new blueprint if they do not come up with an alternative by ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley says he plans to address donations given to him by Richard Stewart, who pleaded guilty this month to failing to pay $4 million in employment taxes. But the governor, a Democrat, told reporters on Thursday ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley says he will be weighing public comments to a proposed legislative redistricting map for the Maryland General Assembly, but he isn’t expecting to make many changes. O’Malley spoke about public comments made at a hearing ...

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Richard Stewart, a member of the five-person Governor’s Redistricting Advisory Committee, pleaded guilty last Thursday to failing to pay almost $4 million in federal Social Security and income taxes for a company he owned. According to a press release from ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley will host a hearing on legislative redistricting in the Maryland General Assembly. The hearing on Thursday will give residents a chance to weigh in on the proposed new districts for the state’s 47 state senate ...

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ANNAPOLIS — The two top Democrats in the General Assembly are pretty happy with the legislative district maps they helped draw, safely slicing the pie to protect their supermajorities. Republicans, on the other hand, are not pasting smiley face stickers ...

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FREDERICK — A Frederick County commissioner has filed a lawsuit challenging Maryland’s redistricting map. The Frederick News-Post reports that Republican Commissioner Paul Smith has filed complaints in the Court of Appeals and Anne Arundel County Circuit Court. He is criticizing ...

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