David Nitkin

As the General Assembly session nears its end, two of Maryland's most powerful political figures -- the governor and House speaker -- are locked in a rapidly escalating effort to...

Hoping to win support of legislators worried about the health of the Chesapeake Bay, the Ehrlich administration is revising crabbing regulations released last month that allow the capture of smaller...

A Senate committee killed legislation yesterday to allow women to get the so-called morning-after pill from pharmacists without having to see a doctor, one day after the measure won approval...

The House of Delegates approved a $200 million-plus package of budget-balancing taxes yesterday after a Republican effort to unravel the proposal failed. The 89-47 vote, which largely followed party lines,...

Even as the final taxation portion of the House of Delegates' budget fell into place yesterday, a leading architect of the spending plan decried his chamber's work as inadequate in...

A House Ways and Means subcommittee gave preliminary approval yesterday to a $225 million package of tax and fee increases and tax loophole-closing measures that would provide more than enough...

Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. appeared to soften his no-new-taxes pledge yesterday when he told legislative leaders that he would consider higher business and property taxes to balance the budget....

As state senators began discussions yesterday on raising alcohol and tobacco taxes to help balance the budget, sellers and distributors claimed that any price increase would force customers across state...

Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. unveiled a sweeping overhaul of his slot machines legislation last night that would cut the share of proceeds going to education by 20 percentage points...

Maryland lawmakers are considering clamping down on the fancy meals, theater tickets and expensive trips lavished on doctors by pharmaceutical companies trying to persuade health care professionals to prescribe their...