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Bill would give Md. farmers more time to comply with new bay rules
kaustuv.basu@herald-mail.comA bill that would give Maryland farmers a 10-year break from new state and local environmental regulations related to water quality if they agree to take part in a state program to reduce nutrient and sediment discharges into the water was heard Tuesday...Tags: Small Businesses, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Maryland General Assembly
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Md. lawmakers take up natural gas issues, jobs, early voting
Md. lawmakers approve natural gas surcharge bill ANNAPOLIS (AP) — Natural gas companies would be able to seek a surcharge of up to $2 on monthly gas bills to help recover costs for replacing aging infrastructure, in a measure approved by state...
Tags: Government, Employment, Justice System, Employment Opportunities, Regional Authority
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Farm regulation "certainty" debated
Supporters and critics of legislation that would grant farmers a 10-year reprieve from new environmental regulations squared off before a House committee Tuesday, with much of the debate focused on the bill's prohibition on public disclosure about those...
Tags: Justice System, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Environmental Politics
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Spirited Senate gun debate expected to last all week
Maryland senators alternatively questioned, challenged and heralded Gov. Martin O’Malley’s gun-control bill for more than two hours Tuesday, a prelude to a debate expected to stretch through the week as lawmakers wrestle over whether to...Tags: Calvert County, Justice System, Firearms, Thomas V. Mike Miller, New York City
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O'Malley readies new offshore wind bid
After being thwarted the past two years by skittish lawmakers, Gov. Martin O'Malley is preparing once again to introduce a bill aimed at planting mammoth wind turbines off Ocean City — and the measure may finally pass, thanks to a shake-up in a...
Tags: Government, Martin O'Malley, Petroleum Industry, Energy Resources, Energy
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Senate defeats bill allowing gas utility surcharge
A bill that would have let gas utilities seek a surchage of up to $2 a month on customers' bill was shot down -- for a second time -- Wednesday by a bipartisan coalition of senators who contended the measure would let monopolies charge ratepayers up...Tags: Elections, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Democratic Party, Annapolis, James C. Rosapepe
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Labor wants guaranteed role in wind-power plan
Organized labor wants a guaranteed role in the offshore wind project Gov. Martin O'Malley is expected to propose — and the unions want it in writing. The demand by construction unions is the latest hurdle for O'Malley's effort to spur the...Tags: Nuclear Power, Martin O'Malley, Alternative Energy, Thomas V. Mike Miller, Unions
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Patronage endures, even in hard times
Baltimore Sun reportersState lawmakers, using a system of patronage that persists in Annapolis despite tight budgetary times, are seeking to direct hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to projects at nonprofit organizations they help run. In Baltimore, Del. Hattie N....Tags: Christopher B. Shank, Social Issues, Washington County (Maryland), Somerville, Values
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Busch names six delegates to panel in hiring investigation
By A Sun Staff WriterHouse Speaker Michael E. Busch named the six delegates yesterday who will serve on a committee investigating the Ehrlich administration's personnel practices. As he had promised, Busch named Del. Adrienne A. Jones, a Baltimore County Democrat, as the...Tags: Baltimore County, Maryland, Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), Montgomery County (Maryland), Frederick County (Maryland)
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Panel is created to study Ehrlich personnel moves
Sun StaffLegislative leaders created a committee yesterday to examine Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s personnel practices, saying they need to investigate allegations that the administration fired longtime bureaucrats solely because of their political affiliation....Tags: Government, Employment, Martin O'Malley, Employees, Judges
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Furor over People's Counsel
Sun reporterMany of those on the front lines of the battle over rising electricity costs say one voice has been noticeably absent from the debate - the state's top consumer advocate, the Office of the People's Counsel. Lawmakers accuse the office and its chief,...Tags: Government, Office Equipment and Supplies, National Government, Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Personal Income
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Personnel panel members fight over procedural rules
Sun StaffThe special committee reviewing Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s personnel practices sparred last night before adopting procedural rules - a five-hour meeting that was the latest chapter in a continuing struggle between the group's Democrats and Republicans....Tags: Government, Justice System, Baltimore County, Employees, Lawyers
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