It’s only a myth that John Hancock scrawled his famous signature so large so that King George could read it. But a new study says that company leaders trying to replicate Hancock’s efforts with their own autographs might produce financial ...

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A list of about 86,000 signatures gathered as part of a petition drive to potentially overturn two new zoning maps in Baltimore County was ordered released Wednesday by a Baltimore County Circuit Court judge.

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The Maryland Court of Appeals on Monday agreed to hear a dispute over whether the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 35 has collected enough signatures to challenge a Montgomery County law that removed the FOP’s collective bargaining rights over some ...

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ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland Democratic Party has filed a complaint against the Maryland State Board of Elections relating to the validation process of signatures in a petition drive against the state’s congressional redistricting map. David Sloan, the party’s executive director, ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A Maryland State Board of Elections official said Wednesday that opponents of Maryland’s congressional redistricting map have acquired enough signatures to give voters a chance to reject the map in November. Donna Duncan, the board’s election management director, ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Opponents of Maryland’s congressional redistricting map are getting close to the validated signatures needed to give voters a chance to reject the map in November. They could reach the 55,736 valid signatures needed this week. As of Tuesday, ...

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Roseanne Barr, her political rival and about 450 members of the Green Party will converge in Baltimore this week, as the party meets to choose its candidate for the November presidential election. However, choosing between Barr and the frontrunner, Dr. ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Opponents of Maryland’s same-sex marriage law have delivered more than twice the number of signatures needed to put a referendum on the law on November’s ballot. Activists say they submitted 113,000 signatures on petitions on Tuesday — double ...

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Maryland’s top court on Monday dealt a blow to the Libertarian and Green parties, unanimously finding that each group is still more than 4,000 signatures short of the 10,000 needed to get a candidate for office on the ballot this ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Opponents of a measure that gives gay couples the right to marry in Maryland have officially begun their effort to overturn the law. Maryland Marriage Alliance officials announced Wednesday that they have launched the petition drive to collect ...

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