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Long-simmering grievances over how taxpayer funds are spent in Prince George’s County blew up this week when the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission blasted the county council for transferring tens of millions of dollars from its budget.
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State election officials await a decision by a federal judge that could determine — at least initially — whether voter records containing personal and identifying information will have to be turned over to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Maryland’s only remaining coal-fired power plant is likely to keep operating through mid-2031 — six years after it was set to close — although the plan technically still requires approval from federal regulators.
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Community members expressed cautious optimism over the newest effort to revitalize the aging State Center Complex in Baltimore, a decades-old development challenge that has been a point of “frustration” and “opportunity” for nearby communities.
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The House voted 249-172 for a bill to crack down on financial aid fraud by requiring the U.S. Department of Education to set up an identity fraud detection system for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, better known as FAFSA.
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Taking advice and inspiration from opponents of a planned immigration detention center near Hagerstown, a newly formed advocacy group in Utah is preparing a lawsuit in hopes of stopping a similar project in Salt Lake City.
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Gov. Wes Moore hires an adviser for the real intel on artificial intelligence, Sen. Cheryl Kagan and Del. Aletheia McCaskill take their show on the road and Nicole Earle notches a historic first at the Maryland Racing Commission, in political notes.
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Residents near Piscataway Creek have dealt with contamination before from Joint Base Andrews, write Dean Naujoks and Staci Hartwell, and they deserve transparency and accountability in response to the latest incident, a spill of thousands of gallons of jet fuel.
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Maryland's state election board unanimously approved a set of guidelines Tuesday laying out how thousands of mail-in ballots will be tabulated for the primary election, a move needed after a ballot mix-up led to the mailing of 437,000 replacement primary ballots.
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When Eric Carpenter-Grantham got the first Maryland ID with a special butterfly logo to identify his hidden disability, he urged others to follow him. Since Oct. 1 more than 22,000 people have done so, asking the MVA for the logo available under "Eric's ID Law."
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Taking advice and inspiration from opponents of a planned immigration detention center near Hagerstown, a newly formed advocacy group in Utah is preparing a lawsuit in hopes of stopping a similar proj...
When Eric Carpenter-Grantham got the first Maryland ID with a special butterfly logo to identify his hidden disability, he urged others to follow him. Since Oct. 1 more than 22,000 people have done so...
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State election officials await a decision by a federal judge that could determine — at least initially — whether voter records containing personal and identifying information will have to be turned ov...
marylandmatters.org
Maryland's state election board unanimously approved a set of guidelines Tuesday laying out how thousands of mail-in ballots will be tabulated for the primary election, a move needed after a ballot mi...
Maryland’s only remaining coal-fired power plant is likely to keep operating through mid-2031 — six years after it was set to close — although the plan technically still requires approval from federal...
marylandmatters.org
Community members expressed cautious optimism over the newest effort to revitalize the aging State Center Complex in Baltimore, a decades-old development challenge that has been a point of “frustratio...
Residents near Piscataway Creek have had to cope with contamination before from Joint Base Andrews, write Dean Naujoks and Staci Hartwell, and they deserve transparency and accountability in response ...
Long-simmering grievances over how taxpayer funds are spent in Prince George’s County blew up this week when the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission blasted the county council for t...
Gov. Wes Moore hires an adviser for the real intel on artificial intelligence, Sen. Cheryl Kagan and Del. Aletheia McCaskill take their show on the road and Nicole Earle notches a historic first at th...
The House voted 249-172 for a bill to crack down on financial aid fraud by requiring the U.S. Department of Education to set up an identity fraud detection system for the Free Application for Federal ...
