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Reaction to Supreme Court decision on health care includes victory dances and...
The torrent of comment on the Supreme Court decision to uphold most of the Affordable Care Act fell predictably along party and ideological lines: Democrats and progressives were exulting; Republicans...
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Bad day for bureaucrats seeking money from Board of Public Works
Board of Public Works meeting Aug. 22 By Len Lazarick Len@MarylandReporter.com It was a bad day for bureaucrats at the Board of Public Works Wednesday – at least for several state officials who had to...
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Maryland Dems insist conventions are worth all the fuss and bother — and money
Maryland delegation casts its votes to nominate Barack O’Bama. (photo by Dan Menefee) By Len Lazarick Len@MarylandReporter.com CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Hoopla, hooch and horse manure are all in abundance at...
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Big Democratic guns tell seniors anti-casino ads are misleading
Video lottery terminals at Maryland Live! casino By Sam Smith Sam@MarylandReporter.com In the battle for expanded casino gambling, they brought out the big political guns Thursday to persuade hundreds...
View ArticleA very late start for the Board of Public Works
CORRECTION posted 8 p.m. Thursday: BPW story was inaccurate The original story about the Board of Public Works starting four hours late on Wednesday was inaccurate. It was based on misinformation on at...
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Md. lawmakers asked to take final steps to implement Obamacare
By Ilana Kowarski Ilana@MarylandReporter.com Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown The O’Malley administration is asking state legislators to take the final steps to implement the Affordable Care Act in Maryland, and...
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Video: Lt. Gov. Brown announces run for governor
Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown made it official Friday, and announced he was running for governor at Prince George’s Community College. He was introduced by Congresswoman Donna Edwards and his wife Karmen....
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Howard County Democrats begin Ulman sendoff
By Len Lazarick Len@MarylandReporter.com Howard County Executive Ken Ulman (Photo by Howard County Library System on Flickr) After they declared “Ken Ulman Day” in Howard County Thursday, the four...
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Craig, Ulman, George: 17 months to go in the lengthening campaign for governor
David Craig Howard County Executive Ken Ulman called my Columbia home twice over the weekend to boost turnout for the announcement Monday morning he’s running for lieutenant governor with current Lt....
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The Democratic ticket of Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown and Howard County Executive Ken Ulman that was announced on Monday fully embraced the record of the O’Malley-Brown administration. Not surprisingly, the...
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Hogan hopes Change Maryland is the ticket
Larry Hogan (Photos from Change Maryland on Facebook) Larry Hogan was kicking himself after his brief speech to some 250 guests at his waterfront home in Edgewater Thursday night. He blew a major...
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Gansler proposes new inspector general to take ‘back room’ out of state spending
Attorney General Doug Gansler Attorney General Doug Gansler said the chilly cellar at the back of Harry Browne’s restaurant across the street from the State House epitomizes the kind of “back room”...
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Election 2014: Endless campaign has begun for statewide hopefuls
This new monthly roundup covers Maryland election news in July for statewide, congressional and executive races. For General Assembly races, visit the roundup we ran Monday. It covered only candidates...
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Md. health insurance exchange to open this fall at cost of $200M
By Glynis Kazanjian Glynis@MarylandReporter.com The cost of implementing Maryland’s new health insurance exchange program – a component of President Barack Obama’s signature health care law – will...
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Rascovar Commentary: Race is on for Md. governor — Establishment Brown vs....
By Barry Rascovar For MarylandReporter.com Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown announces run for governor. To his left are his parents: father Roy Brown in hat and mother Lily Brown with Congresswoman Donna Edwards...
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On the campaign trail: Brown, Gansler, Grasmick, Ulman, Sarbanes, partisan...
Anthony Brown Here are some tidbits from the abundance of campaign events in the past week that we didn’t want to wind up on the cutting room floor: BROWN ON TAXES: Speaking to the Building Trades...
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Sun readers call new gun control law ‘unconstitutional’ Really? Hardly
By Len Lazarick Len@MarylandReporter.com An overwhelming majority of people responding to a Baltimore Sun poll this week — a whopping 94% — called “Maryland’s ban on assault weapons and large...
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Gansler calls himself pro-business Democrat in a one-party state; joins GOP...
By Glynis Kazanjian Glynis@MaryandReporter.com Attorney General Doug Gansler (photo by Safe Medicines) Attorney General Douglas Gansler declared Maryland a one-party state at a forum on manufacturing...
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Teacher’s union gives Brown his biggest endorsement for governor
Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown addresses hundreds of teachers at union convention in Ocean City. By Len Lazarick Len@MarylandReporter.com Lt. Gov. Anthony, far left, talks to Theresa Mitchell Dudley, vice...
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Rascovar commentary: Democrats for governor pander, stalk and misstep
By Barry Rascovar For MarylandReporter.com Del. Heather Mizeur at podium announces her economic plan in Lawyer’s Mall. The bidding race is on. Democratic candidates for governor are seeking to one-up...
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