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(The Center Square) – Other states should take note after the Maryland Tax Court recently struck down that state's digital advertising tax and ordered refunds to be paid to taxpayers for more than five years worth of collections, according to The Tax Foundation.
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(The Center Square) – Maryland is moving ahead with the next major piece of the Francis Scott Key Bridge rebuild as the project’s price tag has climbed to as much as $5.2 billion.
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(The Center Square) – Republican lawmakers filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to block Maryland’s newly approved congressional redistricting amendment from reaching voters in November, one day after Democratic Gov. Wes Moore signed the measure.
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(The Center Square) – The Liberty Justice Center filed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a case challenging a Maryland public school district's policy that requires teachers to use students’ preferred pronouns, claiming that the policy violates the constitutional rights of teachers and parents.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - Nearly two dozen state attorneys general banded together as early as April 2024 to plot litigation against President Donald Trump long before he was reelected, according to a confidential document obtained by The Center Square.
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The Justice Department is challenging the constitutionality of a Maryland county ordinance that prohibits the carrying of firearms throughout a significant portion of the county.
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Reporting from The Center Square
A Maryland court has refused to hold Pepsi, Coke and Frito-Lay responsible for the ills of single-use plastic bottles that litter the streets and waterways of Baltimore.
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(The Center Square) – Change in America’s trucking may not fully be tangible when the new Freedom Haulers initiative is up, running and thriving.
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(The Center Square) – An Orthodox Jewish synagogue and a rabbi are suing Montgomery County over a new law that bars most people from carrying guns in or within 100 yards of houses of worship.
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(The Center Square) – Plans to remake Washington Dulles International Airport expanded into a more than $20 billion project Wednesday as federal officials, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority and United Airlines unveiled an expanded redevelopment plan.
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