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Advocates Call On Lawmakers To Pass Robust Protections For Homeowners
Advocates are continuing their call for Maryland legislators to pass relief for homeowners, warning of a looming foreclosure crisis.
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Senate Panel Votes Down Republican Attempt To Get More Say Over Committee Assignments
Republicans in the General Assembly want more say over how their members are assigned to committees – but a bid to do so was rejected.
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Bowie Resident Appointed To Position With U.S. House
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) named Tylease Alli, a Bowie resident, as the new reading clerk for the House of Representatives.
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Maryland Republican Lawmaker Seeks To Create A Statewide Virtual Public School
It occurs as Maryland students begin to slowly trickle back into classrooms this month.
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Baltimore, Prince George’s Leaders Amp Up Criticism As Hogan Administration Releases More Vaccine Data
The Hogan administration found itself under increasing attack on Wednesday, from local leaders and state legislators.
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Opinion: College Student Hunger Can Be Solved. It’s Up To Annapolis
The author reflects on the financial, individual difficulties of the graduate school experience.
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Del. Kathleen Dumais: Maryland Isn’t Texas
Let’s dispense. The Texas energy emergency last month was not a failure of the retail competitive energy market.
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House Passes Bills To Compensate Wrongfully Convicted, Remove Governor From Parole Decisions
The delegates voted unanimously in favor of a bill that will guide state payments to exonerees who were wrongfully imprisoned.
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MD Postpones Standardized Testing Until Fall
The state will take advantage of federal flexibility to shorten the exam, deliver tests remotely or postpone them.
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Bill Protecting Low-Income Marylanders From Expensive Energy Suppliers Advances
When Maryland deregulated the electricity and natural gas markets in 1999, the hope was to encourage competition among energy suppliers.
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Bills On Digital Tax, Guns At Polling Places Move To Final Senate Votes
A proposal that would clarify exemptions to Maryland’s new tax on digital advertising moved forward in the Senate on Thursday.
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State Ramps Up Vaccine Equity Plan; Hogan And Scott Spar Over Doses, Funding
After weeks of pressure to boost the distribution of COVID-19 vaccine into communities hit hardest by the virus, Hogan redoubled efforts.
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In Police Reform Debate, Senators Receive Pushback From ‘Triad Of Interests’
Pro-policing organizations continue to push back on proposed, meaningful police reform, the report states.
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Opinion: Collective Bargaining Works For Maryland Public Employees -- Just Ask Our Public Employers
“Even after years of faithful service to our community colleges, we still don’t have a meaningful voice at work,” Otten said.
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House Of Delegates Moves Forward With Reform To De-Politicize Parole Decisions
Three Republican amendments to a proposal that would remove the governor from parole decisions were rejected by the House of Delegates.
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Hogan Announces New Mass-Vax Sites; State Threatens UMMS Doses
A mass COVID-19 vaccination site will open in Charles County today, and the Department of Health has secured sites in Western Maryland.
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Senate Debates Bill To Prevent ‘Pass Through’ Of Disputed Digital Ad Tax
Lawmakers continued debate Wednesday on exemptions to Maryland’s newly imposed tax on digital advertising.
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Bill Letting Schools Offer Telehealth Advances
The emergency measure was voted out of a House education subcommittee Tuesday.
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Kalman Hettleman: Will The General Assembly Be Able To Hold MSDE More Accountable?
As Elizabeth Shwe reported last week, an emergency bill introduced by Senate President Bill Ferguson requires a consultant study.
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Paradox Of New-Look Committee Voting Sessions: You Can’t Get In, But They’re More Open
Veteran legislators will tell you the heavy lifting in Annapolis is not always conducted in the historic House and Senate chambers.
