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The Unemployment Extension Depends Just as Much on the States as on the White House

David Adkins | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business


David Adkins

Despite encouraging signs of growth in the economy the unemployment crisis is going to be with us for a long time to come. It has left states caught in a vice between plummeting revenues and rising needs.

Teen With Amnesia Found In Times Square Is Identified

AOL News | Evan Buxbaum, CNN | Posted 10.25.2009 | New York


Authorities have identified a teenager believed to be suffering from amnesia who was found on the streets of New York two weeks ago. Police say a CNN...

New Medical Marijuana Policy: Obama Administration Will Not Seek Arrests For People Following State Laws

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under...

Maryland's Commitment to Advancing Stem Cell Research

Gov. Martin O'Malley | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics


Gov. Martin O'Malley

Last week, we announced that Maryland was entering into a new partnership with the State of California to collaborate on stem cell projects.

Free Speech and Funeral Picketing:

Eugene Volokh | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics


Eugene Volokh

The Fourth Circuit has just reversed the $5 million intentional infliction of emotional distress and invasion of privacy verdict against the group who picketed the funeral of a slain soldier.

New DNC Obama Ad: Get "Fired Up" and "Ready To Go" About No Public Option

Jane Hamsher | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics


Jane Hamsher

Passing the Baucus bill means stabbing the base in the back and destroying 2010 turnout for the midterms, which is pretty much what NAFTA did in 1994.

Bermuda, U.S. Coast Warned As Hurricane Bill Stays Offshore

AP | CHRIS GILLETTE | Posted 09.21.2009 | Home


HAMILTON, Bermuda — Hurricane Bill slammed punishing waves into Bermuda's coastal seawalls as it spun Friday over the open Atlantic, spreading b...

16 Shot In Baltimore, Including 12 At Cookout

AP | BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 08.27.2009 | Home


BALTIMORE — A gunman burst into a backyard cookout held in the memory of two men who'd been shot to death a year earlier, wounding 12 people in ...

Maryland Builds Clean Diesel Plant

hometownannapolis.com | Posted 07.13.2009 | Green


Three large pieces of construction equipment sitting outside the Cox Creek Dredged Material Containment Facility represent the future of diesel emissi...

A Sea Change in the Mid-Atlantic -- Many Hands Makes Light Work

Sarah Chasis | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green


Sarah Chasis

Today at noon I will witness the dawning of an important new council dedicated to protecting our precious and threatened Atlantic Ocean: the Governors' Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on Oceans.

Mid-Atlantic Governors to Sign Landmark Agreement to Protect Ocean

Sarah Chasis | Posted 06.03.2009 | Green


Sarah Chasis

Our oceans don't recognize borders. That's why it's so significant that these five Governors will agree to reach across state lines to protect them.

Village Green: Federal Stimulus Threatened to Overrun Small Town with Sprawl

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green


F. Kaid Benfield

New development should pay its own way, or at least make a justification as to why the subsidy is in the public interest when all factors, including the consequences of sprawl, are considered.

Maryland Unveils the Mikulski Express

Gov. Martin O'Malley | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics


Gov. Martin O'Malley

Starting tonight, Sen. Barbara Mikulski can make her daily commute home from Washington to Baltimore on a locomotive that bears her name: the Senator Barb "Go Green" Express.

Christopher Wood, Maryland Dad Who Killed Family, Had $450K In Debt

AP | ALEX DOMINGUEZ | Posted 05.22.2009 | Home


FREDERICK, Md. — A Maryland father who shot his wife and three children to death and then killed himself struggled with depression, had $450,000...

Maryland Needs to Repeal the Death Penalty -- Now

Gov. Martin O'Malley | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics


Gov. Martin O'Malley

I've asked Marylanders to urge their state senators to end capital punishment in our state. I believe we will fail our children and ourselves if we allow these executions to continue.

State Government 2.0: How Technology Will Help Maryland Make the Most of the Stimulus

Gov. Martin O'Malley | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics


Gov. Martin O'Malley

By integrating data across government agencies and systems, StateStat will give Marylanders a holistic way to look at problems -- and potential solutions -- that simply weren't available to us before.

Stimulus: Republicans Screw Car Makers and Buyers

Steve Parker | Posted 03.16.2009 | Business


Steve Parker

The bill passed by Congress yesterday throws a one-two punch at our auto industry and consumers.

Kidstock with Paul McCartney, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, Moby, Sheryl Crow, Ben Harper, Donovan and... David Lynch?

Mike Ragogna | Posted 03.11.2009 | Entertainment


Mike Ragogna

This concert will be about the music, but its statement of solidarity and support for upliftment in education could be the beginning of yet another American wave of consciousness raising.

Michael Steele's Challenge

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics


Lincoln Mitchell

There exists a leadership gap in the Republican party with no strong frontrunner for 2012 and evidence of growing division between the leading candidates. Steele must fill this leadership vacuum.

The New RNC Chairman -- Providing Full "Race Card" Default Insurance

Carl Jeffers | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics


Carl Jeffers

Selecting Steele is designed to help position the Republicans more advantageously in their effort to fight off charges of "using the race card" when their attacks on the president become really tough.

The Meaning of Michael Steele

Michael Fauntroy | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics


Michael Fauntroy

It's hard to remember the last time a party chairman's race has been so closely followed, but the reality is that Steele's win really doesn't mean much.

Steele, the GOP and Confronting the Southern Strategy

Simon Rosenberg | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics


Simon Rosenberg

That fact that Steele won the RNC chairmanship is a hopeful sign that the GOP has begun to confront its shameful exploitation of race as a national political strategy.

Steele's Slippery Slope

Charles D. Ellison | Posted 03.03.2009 | Politics


Charles D. Ellison

Republicans needed a public relations break more so than a Michael Steele, a fact that will show itself much sooner rather than later.

5 Facts About the New RNC Chairman

Judd Legum | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics


Judd Legum

Former Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele was just elected chairman of the RNC. Here are five facts about the new leader of the Republican party.

The GOP's White Supremacy

Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.28.2009 | Politics


Paul Jenkins

Like a restricted country club that would rather die than change, the Republican Party is marginalizing itself for the sake of the white men who run it.