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
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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
^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