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MD lawmakers begin final budget negotiations as 2025 session enters homestretch
Top Democrats have for the most part reached agreement on how to close a roughly $3.3 billion projected budget deficit.
Commercial real estate group backs transportation ‘lockbox’
Maryland’s largest commercial real estate association is urging its members to back a constitutional amendment creating a transportation fund “lockbox,” saying it could decrease costs associated with development in the state.
Voters asked to approve lockbox for transportation funds
Maryland voters unfamiliar with a ballot question that would create a lockbox on state transportation funds will be hearing about it in the coming weeks.
Purple Line announcement coming Monday
State officials are planning a major announcement about the Purple Line, an east-west light rail line that would connect New Carrollton in Prince George's County to Bethesda in Montgomery County.
In Prince George’s County, your gas tax dollars at work
Gov. Martin O’Malley and other elected officials came here Monday to talk up a few long-languishing transportation projects now on the move, apparently thanks to a new state tax on gasoline.
Letters to the Editor – 4/23/13
More surreal than the three ironies cited by Laslo Boyd in his April 14 column regarding Towson Athletics [“Three shades of irony – the politics of Towson athletics”] is his curious failure to disclose his role as chief of staff to Interim President Marcia Welsh, which occurred at the onset of Mike Waddell's tenure as athletic director.
House unlocks ‘lockbox’ bill
Heading into the final day of the General Assembly's 90-day session, the House of Delegates had taken no action on a Senate Bill designed to prevent raids on the Transportation Trust Fund.
‘Collaborative’ legislative session ends with flurry of bills
With most big ticket items passed days and weeks ago, the General Assembly session strolled to a close Monday night with a controversial "lockbox" bill and persistently pesky dog-bite bill dominating rhetoric in the State House in the final hours.
General Assembly approves transportation funding ‘lockbox’
The House of Delegates voted 110-27 on Monday night to pass a bill that would make it more difficult for the governor and General Assembly to use money earmarked for transportation for non-transportation purposes.
Proposed transportation funding ‘lockbox’ awaits House hearings
Legislation that would make it significantly more difficult for the governor and General Assembly to use transportation money for non-transportation purposes could be considered by two House of Delegates committees.
Lengthy to-do list on final day of session
The big ticket items -- increasing the gas tax to pay for transportation projects, repealing the death penalty and increasing gun control -- are already resolved heading into the General Assembly's last day.
Eye Opener: Lawmakers reach Towson baseball compromise
A few government and politics headlines for Friday.
