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    Maryland state senators and delegates will soon vote on the final version of the state budget for the 12-month period that begins July 1. It includes multiple tax and fee increases.
    Lawmakers reach final budget deal with billions in cuts and $1.6B in taxes
    Maryland lawmakers are on their way to closing a massive state budget gap — the largest since the Great Recession — by raising a slew of taxes and fees and cutting government spending.
    Speaker of the House Adrienne A. Jones concludes business as balloons and confetti fall around her on the final day of the 2024 General Assembly Session in Annapolis.
    Live coverage: Cold feet on immigration bills?
    Lawmakers have until the end of next Monday to wrap up work on bills or they’ll most likely have to start over again in 2026.
    A majority of voters prefer more county-wide voting hubs to casting their ballots at neighborhood schools, churches or community centers.
    Poll: Marylanders prefer voting at countywide hubs to neighborhood precincts
    A Washington Post-UMD poll found support for establishing countywide voting centers.
    Different versions of the bill have now been approved by the House of Delegates and Senate.
    General Assembly passes Second Look Act to allow reviews of some long prison sentences
    A Republican amendment would make people convicted of killing a first responder ineligible.
    The Baltimore Convention Center on April 2, 2025.
    Baltimore could pay for downtown’s facelift using this one weird trick
    A proposed authority to oversee the Baltimore Convention Center could also control other parts of downtown Baltimore.
    Advocates say Howard County’s police accountability board is failing
    Advocates say Howard County's police accountability board has not pushed hard enough to address apparent racial disparities in policing and failed to fulfill some of their basic duties in 2024.
    Students gather to pray at McKeldin Mall on the University of Maryland campus for an interfaith vigil in 2024.
    A Maryland campus anti-hate bill is all but dead. What killed it?
    The backlash underscores the tension between curbing antisemitism and supporting free speech.
    Del. Charlotte Crutchfield, left, congratulates Del. Aletheia McCaskill after the House of Delegates approved a bill creating a state commission to study reparations for slavery. McCaskill, a Baltimore County Democrat, is one of the lead sponsors of the legislation, which won final approval after an intense debate on Wednesday.
    Maryland lawmakers approve commission to study slavery reparations
    Johns Hopkins University students and religious leaders gather on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, to announce petition to protect students from ICE.
    50 religious groups petition Maryland leaders to protect college students from ICE
    The petition asks for an executive order and emergency legislation to protect students from federal immigration enforcement.
    Lawmakers have rewritten a housing bill proposed by Gov. Wes Moore so that it will now set housing targets in each county and Baltimore.
    The last-ditch effort to salvage a statewide housing bill
    If it passes, the bill would require Maryland's housing agency to post public housing targets on its website and publish an annual report assessing the progress.
    A Maryland House committee has approved limiting damages that survivors can seek under the Child Victims Act that passed in 2023.
    Bill slashing damages for child abuse survivors moves in dramatic vote
    Survivors said the debate over money has obscured the true purpose of the law: identifying predators and the institutions that shielded them.
    Republicans are using Gov. Wes Moore’s attendance at a PAC fundraiser to spark a conversation about changing state law.
    Republicans target Gov. Moore’s fundraiser attendance with new bills
    Republican lawmakers proposed new campaign fundraising restrictions Wednesday, targeting Gov. Wes Moore on the same day he planned to attend an event for his federal political action committee.
    An illustration showing groups of people in various forms of daily life, some are disappearing, one in the center is being erased.
    Maryland immigrants voice fear over threats to legal protections amid Trump crackdown
    Of Maryland’s 1 million immigrants, many are under a giant umbrella of temporary student or work visas, as well as humanitarian protections.
    Maryland Air National Guard Lt. Col. Steven Montalvo, center, greets fellow members of the 104th Fighter Squadron March 26, 2025 at Martin State Airport before flying his A-10C Thunderbolt II to the boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona.
    Football and fighter jets signal strange days for Maryland’s National Guard
    Wrapped in a deal over football and fighter jets, or the end of 104 years of aviation history in Marland, is Donald Trump and his 2020 use of the National Guard as a presidential force to quell public dissent.
    Lee Blinder, founding executive director of Trans Maryland, speaks to Maryland Gov. Wes Moore during a ceremony for the International Day for Transgender Visibility. Blinder called out the governor for not backing up his words with action.
    At transgender visibility celebration, Gov. Moore called out for lack of action
    “We know who you, Governor Moore, can be for us. And I am begging you to do it,” Lee Blinder told Moore.
    A white poster board sign that reads "STOP STATE COLLABORATION WITH ICE!!!"
    Lawmakers want to protect immigrants despite Trump threats, but options are limited
    Maryland lawmakers are considering a slate of proposals aimed at protecting immigrants, but their options are limited.
    Dan’s Mountain Wildlife Management Area
    Letter: Power line bill could open path for environmental exploitation
    A reader says a proposed power transmission line that crossed three protected Maryland wildlands will not benefit our state and would encourage future environmental exploitation.
    New cars at the Dundalk Marine Terminal. Maryland lawmakers are changing plans for a proposed vehicle sales tax increase.
    Maryland lawmakers adjust planned tax increase after Trump auto tariffs
    The swift pivot marks yet another Trump-induced change in course for lawmakers navigating a tough budget squeeze.
    Transmission lines travel north from Calvert Cliffs Clean Energy Center, Constellation’s nuclear power plant in Lusby, Maryland.
    Maryland lawmakers are planning $200 million in energy bill rebates
    Maryland lawmakers are working on a plan to give rebates to electric utility customers to blunt the impact of rising bills. But how much might you see? Lawmakers can’t say just yet.
    Republicans proposed more than 20 amendments targeting tax hikes and spending. Democrats shot them all down.
    Live coverage: Lawmakers could approve rebates to help with rising power bills
    Gov. Moore and lawmakers announced a budget deal last week, but some details still need to be worked out.
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