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By Meg Tully Meg@MarylandReporter.com Top 10 State Salaries 1. Randy Edsall Head Football Coach, University of Maryland, $2,011,720 Maryland Reporter’s third annual report on state salaries  found that 5,663 state employees pulled in

Del. Shirley Nathan-Pulliam Tuesday was the first day candidates could file for the 2014 election, and 11 candidates took the plunge, including four Montgomery County legislators filing as a team

By Becca Heller Becca@MarylandReporter.com A bill granting immigrants in the country illegally with access to a legal driver’s license passed in the House of Delegates Friday after heated debate. The bill

By Ilana Kowarski Ilana@MarylandReporter.com Lack of psychiatric hospital beds is one of the problems identified by mental health advocates (Photo by StudioTempura/Flickr) There has been a great deal of partisan bickering in

By Len Lazarick Len@MarylandReporter.com Sen. Ed Kasemeyer The Senate Budget and Taxation Committee voted Thursday to cut $100 million in contributions to the State Retirement and Pension System for fiscal 2014. The

By Len Lazarick Len@MarylandReporter.com As delegates debate a bill abolishing the death penalty already passed in the Senate, a new Goucher College poll finds a slight majority of Marylanders (51%) oppose

The already heated debate over new gun control measures heats up as Gov. Martin O’Malley’s proposed new restrictions moves to the Senate floor on Tuesday. In this 12-minute video, MarylandReporter.com

By Len Lazarick Len@MarylandReporter.com Testifying before House Appropriations Committee, from left: Dean Kenderdine, executive director of the State Retirement Agency; Del. Melony Griffith, House chair of Joint Pensions Committee; and State

By Ilana Kowarski Ilana@MarylandReporter.com Maryland’s little used execution chamber As Maryland legislators debate whether to repeal the death penalty, Gov. O’Malley and foes of executions have repeatedly claimed that it costs more