State government

The baseball team’s lease at Oriole Park at Camden Yards is set to expire at the end of the year.

The state government budget is still growing from one year to the next, it’s just not growing as much as previously anticipated. That means an expected $820 million surplus has shrunk to $342 million.

The attorney general’s office has investigated fatal encounters with police since late 2021, but it had been up to local prosecutors to decide whether to bring criminal charges. A bill moving forward would strip the authority to prosecute these cases from state’s attorneys, handing the responsibility to the attorney general instead.

Del. Jen Terrasa, a Howard County Democrat, is proposing legislation that would require new and substantially renovated townhouses and apartment buildings to have charging spaces.

What happened that night where Gray’s Corner Road meets Riddle Lane just outside Ocean City has transfixed the year-round residents of this tight-knit beach community ― triggering outrage, sparking activism and leading to restaurant boycotts and the apparent end of a business partnership.

After lengthy debate Tuesday, the Maryland Senate advanced a bill giving the Maryland Attorney General’s Office the power to do prosecutions of police-involved killings.

The bill regulating the licensing and sale of recreational marijuana jumped a major hurdle Wednesday by passing an initial vote in the House of Delegates.

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Less than half of the money raised by the Moore Miller Inaugural Committee came through individual ticket sales, with the rest coming from corporate and other donors.

The legislation allowing voters to decide whether to enshrine reproductive rights in Maryland’s Constitution is expected to reach the House floor this week.

The Cannabis Reform Act of 2023 is expected to hit the floor of the Maryland House of Delegates on Tuesday accompanied by amendments, as the bill to create an adult-use recreational marijuana market progresses through the General Assembly.

The decision, Del. Vaughn Stewart said, comes after consultation with his colleagues about the bill’s approach to luring businesses to participate by offering tax credits.

After eight years with a Republican governor who frequently vetoed Democratic majority-led legislation in the Maryland General Assembly, some lawmakers are bullish that legislation to increase participation among minority and women-owned businesses with state contracts may become law.

The Republican says he won't enter the field for the 2024 presidential election. He previously flirted with a run in 2020, but also opted out that time.

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House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones was one of five Black state house speakers invited to a White House meeting on Monday, the same day Gov. Wes Moore attended a Black History Month event at the White House.

Last year, thousands of Marylanders had federal food benefits stolen from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Museum workers have been trying to form a union for two years, but the effort ran into thorny legal and political issues. In Maryland, workers at government agencies often need to have a state law approved in order to begin the process of forming a union.

Anne Arundel County’s schools superintendent is leading an effort to dump the 180-day calendar, but his proposal faces an uncertain future in the General Assembly.

Several dozen GOP legislators implored Democrats to help them strip juvenile justice reforms the General Assembly passed last year and to impose stronger penalties on those who commit crimes with guns or those who steal them.