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Maryland to raise minority business goal to 29 percent
Maryland plans to steer to minority and women-owned businesses 29 percent of the nearly $8 billion a year it spends on contracts, increasing a target that was already among the most aggressive in the nation, Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown said Monday. The new...
Tags: Business, Executive Branch, Elections, Politics, Regional Authority
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O'Malley picks Annapolis veteran as new chief of staff
Gov. Martin O'Malley picked an Annapolis veteran Thursday to oversee the waning years of his administration, appointing as chief of staff a man who has worked under four governors and earned respect in the environmental community for his candor....Tags: Annapolis, Politics, Hybrid Vehicles, Government, Environmental Issues
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With session over, it's fundraising season
With the season for legislating over in Maryland as of last Monday, the season for raising cash for campaigns has begun. For the next nine months, until the General Assembly convenes in Annapolis Jan. 8, candidates for the legislature, governorship and...
Tags: Gun Control, Douglas F. Gansler, Politics, Catonsville, Political Fundraising
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Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown: Racially biased death penalty must be abolished
Earlier this month, the Maryland Legislature passed legislation abolishing the death penalty. I believe the time has come to repeal the death penalty because it is racially biased, demonstrably unreliable and not an effective deterrent. This debate is...Tags: Douglas F. Gansler, Politics, Maryland General Assembly, Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice
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Supporters mount campaign to preserve assault weapons ban
Gov. Martin O'Malley and gun-control advocates launched an offensive Thursday to protect his proposed ban on assault-type weapons from a House committee's efforts to scale it back. "Military-style assault weapons belong on the battlefield, NOT on the...
Tags: Gun Control, U.S. Congress, Politics, Anthony W. Batts, Government
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Mail Call - April 8
“Here’s a question for all the Mail Call readers. Why does our country, being $16.5 trillion in the hole, keep giving all these other countries money? And they’re giving Egypt tanks, planes and $1.5 billion this year. It doesn’t...Tags: CVS Corp., Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Business, Executive Branch, Politics
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Lloyd Waters: Would McGuinn favor the death penalty?
Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown’s guest column last week titled “Racially biased death penalty must be abolished” presented his opinion and several discussion points in support of abolishing the death penalty in the State of Maryland....Tags: Douglas F. Gansler, Politics, Maryland General Assembly, Crime, Law and Justice, Government
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State delays vote on expansion of Carroll Co. juvenile treatment facility
A plan by the Department of Juvenile Services to double capacity at a privately run residential facility for young offenders was put off Wednesday after state officials expressed concern about the system "backsliding" toward larger, harder-to-manage...
Tags: Executive Branch, Prisons, Politics, Martin O'Malley, Robert A. Zirkin
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Ulman, Mizeur report fundraising totals
Howard County Executive Ken Ulman, considered one of the top prospects for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2014, reported that he raised more than $1.1 million last year -- almost keeping pace with Attorney General Douglas M. Gansler. Ulman...
Tags: Executive Branch, Ken Ulman, Politics, Elections, Regional Authority
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Longtime Baltimore City Del. Hattie Harrison dies at 84
Del. Hattie Harrison, who was the longest-serving member of the House of Delegates, died Monday night, House Speaker Michael E. Busch announced. She was 84. Delegate Harrison, a Democrat who represented East Baltimore's 45th District since 1973,...
Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Annapolis, Human Interest, Michael E. Busch, Bernard C. Young
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Delegates consider scaling back assault weapons ban, O'Malley calls for action
The Baltimore SunDelegates are considering scaling back the assault weapons ban in Gov. Martin O'Malley's gun bill to keep legal the sale of guns used recent mass shootings in Newtown, Conn. and Aurora, Colo. O'Malley blasted an email to supporters Thursday morning,...Tags: U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Personal Weapon Control, Crime, Law and Justice
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Hagerstown, state officials discuss revitalization funds
kaustuv.basu@herald-mail.comEfforts to get state money for the revitalization of downtown Hagerstown are continuing with two prominent city residents meeting with top officials from the governor’s and lieutenant governor’s office Wednesday to appraise them of...Tags: Executive Branch, Economy, Business and Finance, Politics, Regional Authority, Government
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