Maryland Politics: April 9, 2006 - April 15, 2006
Video: Tom Stuckey
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April 14, 2006; 3:54 PM ET |
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Steele by the Numbers
On the heels of a Democratic National Committee report showing Republican Lt. Gov. Michael Steele poised to make inroads with Maryland's black voters comes a Yale University study showing the African American candidate could lose some white Republican voters. The...
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April 14, 2006; 9:16 AM ET |
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Video: Del. Pauline Menes
Del. Pauline Menes (D-Prince George's), who is retiring after serving in the Maryland legislature for 40 years, explains the changes she's witnessed in the State House. She was the longest-serving member of the House. var movieSrc = "http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/mmedia/player/player2.swf?whichMode=normal&justify=center&playad=no&mediatype=mp3&postdir=metro&postvideo=041106-16v&cuesfile=none&autoplay=no&starttime=0&endtime=0&largerver=none&image=041106-16v_320&playlistxml=none" ; //URL...
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April 13, 2006; 3:27 PM ET |
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Poll Shows Latest on Senate, Governor's Races
It turns out the numbers in the Comptroller's race aren't the only interesting ones in a new poll commissioned by Del. Peter Franchot (D-Montgomery), a hopeful for the office. The same poll, conducted by Garin Hart Yang, showed the Democratic...
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April 12, 2006; 5:22 PM ET |
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Gone But Not Forgotten
Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr. (R) honored some of the state's top small business owners today at an award ceremony in his State House reception room. The venue allowed him to boast about his efforts to make Maryland's business climate...
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Ann Marimow
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April 12, 2006; 4:37 PM ET |
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Cardin Sitting on $2.6 Million
Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin's campaign said this morning that it had raised nearly $1 million in the first three months of the year and finished the quarter with $2.6 million on hand. The Baltimore-area Democrat's quarterly haul is smaller than...
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April 12, 2006; 10:31 AM ET |
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A Real Race for Comptroller?
Folks in the Maryland State House are buzzing about the recent signs of political trouble for one of Maryland's most senior public officials, William Donald Schaefer. The longtime Baltimore mayor who served two terms as governor and is now Maryland's...
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April 11, 2006; 5:17 PM ET |
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The Morning After
Barely 10 hours after the confetti fell, barely five hours after the parties ended, there were the House speaker, the Senate president and the governor sitting together for the first of many bill signings in coming weeks. Senate President Thomas...
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April 11, 2006; 11:18 AM ET |
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Lost in the Shuffle
While all eyes were focused on the crash of the high-profile electricty rates bill on the final night of the General Assembly, a bill critical to Prince George's County was literally lost in the shuffle in the rush to adjournment,...
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April 11, 2006; 10:47 AM ET |
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O'Malley, Cardin Win Straw Poll
Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley emerged as the Democrat's favorite candidate for governor in the race's first straw poll, conducted Saturday at the Western Maryland Democratic Summit held at the Rocky Gap Lodge near Cumberland. O'Malley received 108 votes at the...
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April 9, 2006; 11:17 AM ET |
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