Category: Annapolitics Blog
Ehrlich: Trump’s threat to adjourn Congress could be a negotiating tactic
No U.S. president has ever exercised his authority to adjourn Congress.
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Dems slam Hogan on jobs center, but Obama may be to blame
The Maryland Democratic Party slammed Republican Gov. Larry Hogan late Thursday for closing one of three Career Centers in Baltimore as of Friday. But they appear to have been pointing their fingers at the wrong people, since President Obama and Congress may be to blame.
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Ex-gov. Mandel, 95, feted as ‘architect of modern Maryland’
If you live long enough in politics, all may not be forgiven, but most is forgotten, and if you’re lucky, only the good stuff is remembered.
That’s certainly true of former Gov. Marvin Mandel, who turned 95 last month and was feted Wednesday at a birthday celebration organized by his old friend and sometimes unofficial ‘chauffeur,’ lobbyist Bruce Bereano.
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Supporting news coverage at State House: We’ll drink to that
Here are photos of some of the more than 100 people who attended MarylandReporter.com’s happy hour fundraiser at Harry Browne’s Thursday night.
A full list of 2015 contributors to this nonprofit news website is at the bottom of the photos.
Packed house for MarylandReporter.com fundraiser
More than 100 people packed the upstairs bar at Harry Browne’s across from the State House Thursday night for MarylandReporter.com’s third annual happy hour fundraiser that raised close to $25,000 to support the daily State Roundup of news.
This year’s guest bartenders were Gov. Larry Hogan, Senate Majority Leader Catherine Pugh and Senate Minority Leader J.B. Jennings
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Speaker Kipke, President Hogan, and no joke, governor hot over ‘insult’ to First Lady
A little April Fool’s spirit floated in the State House Wednesday, but not everything was a laughing matter
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Senates Past gets the inside baseball about the Orioles present
How do you get Orioles manager Buck Showalter to quit sunny Sarasota, Fla., on the first week of spring training to come to Annapolis on a snowy Thursday and address an aging group of senators, ex-senators and their friends? You get longtime Orioles owner Peter Angelos to fly him up on a charter jet, put him in a suit and tie, and make it look like it was the most normal thing in the world for this Mississippi boy to schmooze and pose for pictures with a bunch of pols.
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Goodbye House, hello Senate
Republican Dels. Justin Ready of Carroll County and Andrew Serafini of Washington County got appointed by the governor and sworn in to their new Senate seats so fast on Monday that they didn’t have time to bid farewell to their former House colleagues till Tuesday.
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Some more transparency in Annapolis: Senate committees video live stream hearings
The legislature has taken another small step for transparency in its proceedings this year. Senate committees are now video live streaming their hearings online, and saving them for later viewing. That includes the Executive Nominations Committee which streamed its very first hearing Monday night.
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Week One of the Hogan administration has seen a lot of firsts for the new governor
When Larry Hogan walked out of his office door at exactly 10 a.m. Wednesday into his reception room full of people awaiting his arrival, it was one of the many firsts for the new governor in his first week.
“This is the first time in 12 years that the Board of Public Works has started on time,” Hogan declared.
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Hogan to fill 3 Assembly vacancies
Gov. Larry Hogan told MarylandReporter.com Wednesday morning that he expected to have a meeting later in the day to discuss appointments, including the filling of three vacancies in the legislature he caused by naming two senators and a delegate to posts within his administration.
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Hogans, Rutherfords pack it in
Gov. Larry Hogan donned a hair net for the final inaugural event where he and his wife Yumi, Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford and his wife Monica, other politicos and average citizens packed macaroni and cheese packs for the Maryland Food Bank.
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