Maryland

Slots Sail Through Senate Committee, Head for Floor

ANNAPOLIS – A Senate committee Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a plan to legalize slot machines in Maryland, paving the way for the full Senate to take up the issue as early as Wednesday

Tattoo Artists, Home Designers Say Sales Tax Proposal is Picking on Them

ANNAPOLIS – An unlikely alliance of tattoo artists and interior designers testified Saturday against a proposal to extend the sales tax to their services, one of dozens of revenue-generating bills heard by a House committee

^Tip Jar Proposal Brings Outraged Western Marylanders to Annapolis

ANNAPOLIS – Dozens of Western Marylanders testified Saturday against a bill that would turn local regulation of tip-jar gaming over to the state, a plan they called insulting and “a slap in the face

Bay Restoration ‘Green Fund’ Tax Faces Tough Fight in Special Session

ANNAPOLIS – Farmers, sportsmen, environmentalists — even some development groups — testified Friday in support of a bill that would create a “Green Fund” dedicated to Chesapeake Bay restoration with money raised by development taxes

Md. Students Join Political Donors

WASHINGTON – Some 40 Maryland students are part of a national trend under media scrutiny: They gave high-dollar donations to political candidates at a tender age

Lawmakers Eye, Counties Attack Suggestion to Share Teacher Pension Costs

ANNAPOLIS – Not all the measures being considered by lawmakers would raise taxes to close the state’s looming budget deficit — some would cut spending

^Wynn, Edwards Share 2006 Campaign Deja Vu

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^Candidates Collect Contributions From Different Ends of Spectrum

WASHINGTON – The race for Maryland’s Congressional District 4 seat has gone national, as U

Slots Take Center Stage as Special Session Nears End of First Week

ANNAPOLIS – The debate over slot machines dominated the fifth day of the special legislative session Friday, as Gov

^Plan Trades on Development Rights to Give Young Farmers a Future — and a Farm

HURLOCK – Terri Wolf-King, 41, and her husband, Jeff King, 33, wanted to buy 258 acres of farmland near their Dorchester County home after they married five years ago