House panel OKs small-business bill
In the face of intense lobbying by Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele and minority business leaders, a House committee passed legislation yesterday that would direct 10 percent of all state...
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City House delegation in dispute on issues
At a time when Baltimore's delegation in the House would seem to need a united front as important deals are cut on everything from budgets to taxes in the legislature's...
Ehrlich plan for agency assailed
Democratic lawmakers say Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. should wait until next year to establish his proposed Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, a stance that could set back one...
Tax plan may cost speaker at home
For more than a decade, Anne Arundel County voters - once a reliably liberal bloc - have grown increasingly conservative, especially in their distaste for taxes. Their opposition to taxes...
Assembly ethics panel rebukes senator over conflict of interest
Members of the General Assembly's ethics committee admonished Sen. John A. Giannetti Jr. yesterday not to sponsor legislation involving his employer's clients after disclosures revealed that he introduced half a...
Bill to license abortion clinics seems near death
A proposal to license and regulate clinics that perform abortions in Maryland appears all but dead in the legislature this year, according to a sponsor of the bill now before...
Abortion regulation bills face tight votes
Proposals to license and regulate clinics that perform abortions are facing tight committee votes in the Maryland Senate, with the decisions hanging on Howard County Republican Sandra B. Schrader, who...
Ehrlich to introduce his plans for state minority business program
Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. is scheduled to unveil his long-awaited plan to revamp the state's Minority Business Enterprise Program today with a series of executive orders and legislation that...
‘Mr. Speaker! We’d like to talk to you’
For almost an hour yesterday, a half-dozen union leaders milled about the narrow, polished marble halls of the State House, waiting for House Speaker Michael E. Busch. At issue was...
Annapolis respects Neall on difficult fiscal matters
If there was any consolation in Annapolis about former Sen. Robert R. Neall's decision yesterday to resign his post with the Baltimore school system, it was that he has impulsively...