By: Bryan P. Sears Gov. Larry Hogan’s plan to pay to re-open the State Police barracks in Annapolis by sticking it to a project favored by House Speaker Michael E. Busch is starting to feel like one of those Esurance commercials: “That’s not how it works. That’s not how any of this works,” says the […]

By Michael Dresser The Baltimore Sun House and Senate fiscal leaders agreed Friday on a $40.5 billion budget plan with what they hope are enough sweeteners to break an impasse with Gov. Larry Hogan and shake loose money for education and health, and to avoid a state employee pay cut. The plan will move to the […]

By Ovetta Wiggins The Maryland Senate voted unanimously Thursday to approve a $40.4 billionbudget that wipes out nearly 75 percent of the state’s structural deficit and restores funding that was cut from education and state employees’ salaries in Gov. Larry Hogan’s proposal. The budget compromise represents the greatest show of bipartisanship since Hogan (R) took office […]