Jet-Setting Lawmakers Swap Ideas on Taxpayers’ Tab

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