ANNAPOLIS – The white marble halls of the State House echo more than usual in the weeks following the final gavel of a General Assembly session
Confetti Covers Assembly’s Deeper Dysfunction
ANNAPOLIS – With the final rap of the gavel at a few minutes past midnight Monday, House Speaker Michael Busch, D-Anne Arundel, found himself grimacing under an avalanche of confetti dumped from the House gallery
Slots, Taxes Likely Dead After Leaders Fail to Compromise
ANNAPOLIS – With three days to go in the General Assembly session, slots died, the budget finally moved and lawmakers are likely to leave town to face the $800 million budget shortfall next year
Top Pols Talk; Slots Take Baby Steps Forward
ANNAPOLIS – The state’s top three politicians called a late evening meeting Thursday to try to resolve a budget stalemate over whether slot machine revenue or taxes are the best fix for Maryland’s fiscal straits
Busch, Ehrlich Remain at Loggerheads Over Taxes, Slots
ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s top lawmakers continued a frenzied series of meetings Tuesday looking for a peaceful resolution to the dispute between Republican Gov
Racetrack Plan Carves Valley Through Mountain Community
LITTLE ORLEANS – Miles of rolling farmland hemmed in by the towering Blue Ridge Mountains, acres of state forest and a few dairy farms compose most of this Western Maryland hamlet too small to even be called a town
Allegany Track Living, Dying by Votes on Slots Bill
ANNAPOLIS – When the General Assembly added another horse racing license in 1999 for a track in Allegany County, the goal was economic development for one of the state’s rural regions
Slots-Tax Plan Offered to Cool Legislative Tempers
ANNAPOLIS – A long-serving member of the House Ways and Means Committee Thursday proposed a compromise to stop the bickering among the state’s top lawmakers over whether to use taxes or slot machine revenue to plug the state’s budget gap
Ehrlich, House Hit Impasse on Taxes, Slots
ANNAPOLIS – With 12 days left in this year’s session, House Speaker Michael E
House Panel Hears Governor’s Final Appeal for Slots
ANNAPOLIS – A cool House panel listened to off-the-cuff testimony Tuesday from Gov