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State Roundup: Legislature OKs $52.4 billion budget targeted at Covid recovery; wrangling continues over police reform House of Delegates March 2021, MarylandReporter.com photo GENERAL ASSEMBLY OKs $52.4B BUDGET: Danielle Gaines of Maryland Matters reports that the Maryland General Assembly gave final approval Friday to a $52.4 billion budget that House Appropriations Chairwoman Maggie L. McIntosh (D-Baltimore City) said is worthy of a moniker: “I call this The Recovery Act,” she said. Only in 2021, perhaps, could approval of a massive state budget fattened by federal aid to help struggli...

State Roundup: Maryland, jurisdictions could get $6.4 billion in federal stimulus funds The view of the Maryland Senate chamber from the desk of Majority Leader Nancy King. From King's Facebook page VAN HOLLEN: HOW STIMULUS WILL AID MARYLAND:: U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) Friday criticized the Hogan administration’s rollout of coronavirus vaccines, saying the state needs to do more to make vaccines more accessible in underserved communities. Bryan Renbaum of Maryland Reporter interviews the senator, focusing on how the $1.9 trillion stimulus package that President Joe Biden recently s...

On Wednesday, Republican delegates held a demonstration against the House version of police reform being debated. They were joined by over 30 police from mostly Republican counties. MarylandReporter.com photo MIXED REACTIONS TO HOGAN’s SURPRISE REOPENING PLAN: Maryland’s swift and far-reaching plan to reopen businesses and public venues took many key stakeholders by surprise, interviews with officials, business and health leaders show, and went further than some industry representatives had requested, Rebecca Tan, Ovetta Wiggins, Rachel Chason and Erin Cox of the Post report. Comptroller ...

Ice rescue training by Howard County Fire and Rescue Services on Lake Elkhorn in Columbia. From the department's Facebook page HOGAN INFRASTRUCTURE TESTIMONY ON HILL GETS PUSH BACK: Gov. Larry Hogan emphasized Maryland’s commitment to transportation infrastructure improvements in his virtual testimony to lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Wednesday morning Bryan Renbaum reports for Maryland Reporter. During his time as chair of the National Governors Association from July 2019 to August 2020, he spearheaded a nationwide initiative aimed at improving the country’s roads and highways and transp...

State Roundup: Sun to be sold to nonprofit; Van Hollen, state lawmakers urge action on housing crisis SUN SET TO RETURN TO LOCAL HANDS: Returning The Baltimore Sun to Maryland hands, the state’s largest newspaper and its affiliates are poised to be acquired by a nonprofit formed by businessman and philanthropist Stewart Bainum Jr. that would operate the media organization for the benefit of the community. The sale would be part of a $630 million deal announced late Tuesday for Alden Global Capital to acquire full control of Tribune Publishing, Christopher Dinsmore of the Sun reports. WHO IS...