Category: Politics

Kate Amara of WBAL TV reports on the latest (video is here):
President George W. Bush’s daughter, Jenna, and her fiancé, Henry Hager, are busy planning their wedding, and apparently their plan after that includes Baltimore.

WBAL TV 11 News …

The Reliable Source
In barely more than six weeks, Henry Hager will have a new wife — Jenna Bush, as you may have heard — and a brand-new graduate degree in business. So presumably a new job is on the …

Capital News Service
All but one of Maryland’s members of Congress rank in the top half of congressional earmark spenders, with Rep. Steny Hoyer coming in fifth in the House, a consumer watchdog group reported Wednesday.

Citizens Against Government Waste’s new …

Rep. Albert Wynn, who was defeated in the Democratic primary by Donna Edwards, is resigning from Congress to take a job in a D.C. law firm. Wynn’s move will probably force a special election, with all the cost …

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WBAL.com
The Delaware Human Relations Commission is investigating an allegation that a teacher in the Indian River School District told her fifth-grade class that she would not vote for presidential candidate Barack Obama because …

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 …

Baltimore Sun
C-SPAN will bring its Campaign 2008 bus to the county tomorrow as part of its “Road to the White House” tour.

The red, white and blue bus will visit the Cockeysville library, 9833 Greenside Drive, from 9 a.m. to …

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 …

Herald-Mail via Digg via ars technica:
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 …