COLLEGE PARK – The strong-selling Toyota Prius made it clear, and tougher federal gas mileage standards made it even clearer: environmentally friendly cars can’t be just “a hobby” for General Motors

BALTIMORE – Returning former Gov

ANNAPOLIS – Although the General Assembly is poised to pass the state’s budget for the next fiscal year by Monday, debate will likely continue about Maryland’s financial future as candidates gear up for November’s elections

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s watermen returned to Annapolis Wednesday to support a bill that would increase penalties on oyster poachers and delay the state from designating additional portions of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries as oyster sanctuaries

ANNAPOLIS – A Republican proposal to fund local school systems based on a more accurate number of students attending classes has sparked criticism that the move would siphon money from the jurisdictions that need it most

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland needs to strengthen its “rainy day” reserve fund to prepare for future budget crises, a state senator testified Wednesday at the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee

ANNAPOLIS – The state’s juvenile justice system needs a new leadership team to address a series of failings in the department, Maryland’s House Minority Leader said Thursday, calling for the department’s head to resign

ANNAPOLIS – Proposals to close the state’s budget gap met with fierce resistance Wednesday from dozens of college administrators, local government representatives, environmental activists and myriad others who came to testify against reductions to their own organizations

ANNAPOLIS – If climatologist Joseph Romm is correct, a changing climate will have made Maryland’s winters so warm in a few decades that a winter storm won’t mean anything more than a lot of rain

ANNAPOLIS – Two House bills that would raise Maryland’s fuel tax received positive testimony in a hearing Tuesday, but it remains unknown whether any tax increase will prove politically palatable in an election year