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Minimum wage bill fails in committee
The Baltimore SunA bill to raise Maryland's minimum wage to $10 an hour failed in a Senate committee vote Wednesday, its sponsor said. The Raise Maryland campaign, part of a national effort, sought to increase the state's minimum per-hour wage from $7.25 to one of...Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation
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Jennings says bill responds to student's gun-shaped pastry incident
A state senator told colleagues Wednesday that a bill to prohibit school systems from suspending children who make gun gestures or have objects that look like a gun is needed because "this has gotten out of hand." Sen. J.B. Jennings filed his bill after...
Tags: Teachers, White Marsh, Students, Politics, Annapolis
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O'Malley offshore wind bill passes
Gov. Martin O'Malley achieved a long-sought victory Monday night as the General Assembly gave final approval to his bill to encourage development of a wind energy industry featuring dozens of giant turbines off the state's Atlantic coast. Passage came...
Tags: Thomas V. Mike Miller, U.S. Department of the Interior, E.J. Pipkin, Politics, Renewable Energy
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Official: Stuck elevator did not hinder efforts to revive MCI inmate
janeth@herald-mail.comAn ambulance crew continued to give CPR to an inmate in the Maryland Correctional Institution-Hagerstown last Thursday while they were stuck in an elevator at the prison for — at most — 5 to 7 minutes, the ambulance company chief said Tuesday....Tags: Heart Attack, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Prisons, Emergency Health Procedures, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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Speed camera bill up for Senate vote
The state Senate could vote as soon as Tuesday to bar the state and local governments from paying speed camera contractors based on ticket volume and to require that all automated speeding tickets issued in Maryland give drivers enough information to...
Tags: Baltimore County, Politics, Parties and Movements, Xerox Corporation, Fines
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Attorney for student who was suspended for gun-shaped pastry files appeal
An attorney for an Anne Arundel County 7-year-old suspended from school for nibbling a breakfast pastry into the shape of a pistol is seeking to have the student's record expunged, and said he plans to appeal to Maryland's highest court if necessary....Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Glen Burnie, Students, Politics, Television Industry
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Deposit opponents miss the message in the bottle
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more," I say, quoting Shakespeare's Henry V, the breach being not the hole in the wall at Harfleur, but the gap between who Marylanders are as recyclers and who we could be. How's that for reducing a fine...
Tags: Public Officials, Politics, Harford County, Annapolis, Government
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Obama picks Perez to lead U.S. Labor Department
Senate Republicans criticized the nomination Monday of former state labor secretary Thomas E. Perez to lead the U.S. Department of Labor, signaling the longtime civil rights lawyer will face a contentious confirmation over his approach to the law and...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Republican Party, Hilda Solis, Politics, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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House committee approves gas tax increase
A House of Delegates committee approved a plan Monday to raise taxes on gasoline by 3.8 cents July 1 as part of broader revenue package to pay for transportation projects. The rise in the gas tax, which would be followed by more increases over the next...
Tags: U.S. Congress, FBI, Thomas V. Mike Miller, Maryland Department of Transportation, Republican Party
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Top Democrats seek votes to raise gas taxes
With three weeks left in the General Assembly session, Gov. Martin O'Malley and legislative leaders have begun the painstaking process of rounding up the votes to raise taxes on gasoline — a move so unpopular it hasn't been done here since 1992....
Tags: Thomas V. Mike Miller, Republican Party, Frederick County (Virginia), Baltimore County, Politics
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House votes to repeal death penalty
The General Assembly voted to repeal the death penalty Friday, calling for an end to Maryland's 375-year history of capital punishment and joining a growing number of states outlawing the practice. After nearly two hours of impassioned debate, the House...
Tags: Thomas V. Mike Miller, Maryland General Assembly, Republican Party, Roman Catholicism, Same-Sex Marriage
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U.S. Supreme Court to hear arguments over Md. DNA case
In a Maryland case that's garnered the attention of the other 49 states, the federal Department of Justice and the national science community, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday over whether to restrict police in collecting DNA to solve...Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Law Enforcement, Politics, Biotechnology Industry, Prosecution
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