Maryland House Votes to Ban First-Cousin Marriages

ANNAPOLIS – In a session that sounded like the laugh track of a TV sitcom, the Maryland House of Delegates Friday voted 82 to 46 to outlaw first-cousin marriages in the state

Frustrated Republicans Launch Tobacco Settlement Spending Plan

ANNAPOLIS – Frustrated by Gov

Transit Riders Go to Annapolis — By Bus — to Rally for Funding

ANNAPOLIS – Tonya Butler wants to work — it’s getting there that’s the problem

BWI To Search Worldwide for Improvement Ideas

ANNAPOLIS – Baltimore-Washington International Airport officials have grand plans to make the burgeoning airport more deserving of its “easy-come, easy-go” slogan, but some lawmakers are worried that their plans are not grand enough

Local Governments Remain Cool, As Soaring Fuel Prices Burn Up Budgets

ANNAPOLIS – When Prince George’s County officials put their fiscal 2000 fuel budget together back in November 1998, fuel prices were low and stable

Lawmakers Sound Death Knell for Cousins’ Wedding Bells

ANNAPOLIS – Close-knit kin planning to tie the knot will have to wed elsewhere if two Montgomery County legislators in the Maryland General Assembly get their way

House Committee Questions Taylor’s Flight Plan

ANNAPOLIS – Lawmakers Tuesday questioned the fairness, economic feasibility and necessity of a bill to bring the country’s first state- subsidized commuter air service to rural southern and western Maryland

Speaker’s Bill Would Launch New Air Service in Maryland

ANNAPOLIS – Lawmakers Tuesday will begin debating the merits of using the state’s general fund to revive commuter air service between Baltimore- Washington International Airport, Cumberland and Hagerstown and to introduce new service at St

Appeals Court Sends National Harbor Opponents Back to Square One

ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland Court of Special Appeals on Tuesday overturned a lower court ruling that would have required developers of the National Harbor to present more detailed noise studies before proceeding on the Prince George’s County resort

Montgomery Delegate Proposes Gas Tax Hike for Transportation Projects

ANNAPOLIS – Beginning in 2002, Maryland motorists could pay even more at the pumps if a fuel tax bill by proposed by Delegate Sheila E