Category: Maryland Government

WBAL.com
Governor O’Malley met for about 50 minutes tonight with legislative leaders regarding whether to repeal the state’s sales tax on computer services.

The extension of the state’s 6% sales tax is due to take effect in July, though the governor …

WBAL.com
Wednesday morning the Committee on Finance of the University System of Maryland (USM) Board of Regents will meet at UMBC and proposed increases in room and board and parking will be presented.

A preliminary decision will be made and then …

Bill that would give jail time to using your neighbor’s unsecured wi-fi dies in committee

Legislator: Obama minister Rev. Wright “spoke the truth”

A profile of Sen. James Brochin in The Baltimore Sun
With an ironclad grip on power in …

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Purposely surfing the Internet on someone else’s wireless connection, without permission, would be a crime under a bill Del. LeRoy E. Myers Jr. presented Tuesday.

Myers, …

The Examiner
The controversy over presidential candidate Barack Obama’s former pastor hit home in Baltimore County when Del. Emmett Burns Jr. told his congregation the Rev. Jeremiah Wright “spoke the truth.”

“His major infraction and …

Baltimore Sun
Walter C. Abbott Jr. has sent e-mails from time to time to the governor and state legislators complaining about losing construction work to illegal immigrants.

He never received anything but a form-letter type response.

This week, the 44-year-old Parkville man …

WBAL.com
The Greater Baltimore Committee is launching a Web ad campaign today for repeal of the computer services tax.

The tax is set to take effect in July.

Greater Baltimore Committee President & CEO Don Fry says this is a tax that …

WBAL.com
Former Governor William Donald Schaefer, a curmudgeonly mainstay in Maryland politics for decades, was hospitalized Wednesday after injuring his nose in a fall, a hospital spokeswoman said.

Mary Lanham, a spokeswoman for the Baltimore Washington Medical Center, said Schaefer was …

MD GOP release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 5, 2008

O’Malley Approval Rating Plummets Another 6%

For First Time, Majority of Democrats
Do Not Approve Of O’Malley

ANNAPOLIS— Today, Gonzales Research and Marketing Strategies released a poll showing that Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley’s approval rating “continues to …

WBAL TV
Gourmands who favor duck liver delicacies can keep eating. A proposal to ban foie gras in Maryland is headed toward rejection.

A senator who sponsored the proposed ban said before its hearing Tuesday that she is likely to withdraw …