Republican Party

One special session down, another to go?

2012-05-20 13:39:00

State Sen. Jamie Raskin likens the prospect of being called back to Annapolis for another special session to the plight of a middle school student being told on the last day of classes that he has to attend summer school. But the Montgomery County...

In D.C. schools, Obama chooses unions over kids

2012-05-20 05:00:00

Just when you thought the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program for poor, predominantly minority kids was fully protected from politics, here comes the Obama administration with another broadside. The popular program (which falls under...

Maryland sees biggest job loss in nation in April

2012-05-18 15:56:07

Maryland shed 6,000 jobs in April, the federal government said Friday — the largest monthly loss in the country during a month when most states gained, but one that might have been overstated. The figures, which are preliminary and adjusted for...

O'Malley builds on tax-raising legacy

2012-05-16 17:05:00

The General Assembly's speedy embrace of Gov. Martin O'Malley's income tax increases this week cleaned up a political mess in Annapolis, but the rate hikes could come back to haunt the Democrat if he seeks national office when his time in the governor's...

General Assembly raises income tax on top 14 percent

2012-05-16 18:01:00

It took three carefully scripted days, but Maryland's ruling Democrats finally put in place the budget deal that eluded them in the waning hours of the state's regular session last month. The revenue package approved by the House on Wednesday will...

Tea party victories in Ind., Neb., are no boon to the Democrats

2012-05-17 08:13:00

If it has accomplished nothing else, the tea party insurgency has made Republicans vastly more newsworthy than Democrats. While the party of the left plods along performing the boring old tasks of governing, the party of the right is engaged in high drama...

House approves tax increase, sends bill to O'Malley

2012-05-16 09:52:00

The House of Delegates voted 77 to 60 this afternoon to increase income taxes on the top 14 percent of Marylanders, finishing up business left undone when lawmakers gridlocked at the end of the regular session in April. It still needs to be signed by Gov....

Special session fallout

2012-05-16 10:55:00

They did what they had to do, and they went home. That's the best that can be said of the special session of the Maryland General Assembly that concluded today. The tax increases, spending cuts, fund transfers and other measures lawmakers approved in 21/2...

Obama might wish he hadn't met 'Julia'

2012-05-14 03:00:00

Meet "Julia." She is the star of an infographic created for President Barack Obama's re-election website to illustrate the policy differences between him and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. The slide show follows Julia from the age of 3, when her...

Democratic tax plan faces challenge from within

2012-05-14 18:08:00

A carefully choreographed strategy to raise state income taxes to stave off so-called doomsday budget cuts faces a challenge in the General Assembly after several Democrats defied party leaders with a proposal to raise the sales tax instead. The...

Senate passes tax increase, pension shift

2012-05-15 09:30:00

The Maryland Senate passed an income tax increase and a shift of some of the cost of teacher pensions to the counties Tuesday, averting more than $500 million in so-called Doomsday budget cuts that otherwise would have taken effect July 1. On the...

Attachment legislating: Corporate cash and the GOP

2012-05-15 10:08:00

If money is the mother's milk of politics, then America's big corporations are Big Mama, and Big Baby is the Republican Party suckling at the enormous bosom of business. Democrats, meanwhile, are abandoned brats scrounging for nourishment wherever they...

Chairman of the Republican Party of Orange County from 1985 to 2004, Fuentes helped the party maintain its powerhouse status while boosting several candidates to victory.

2012-05-19 08:56:24

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2012-05-17 15:35:00

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Democrats were forcing that vote as "a way to drive a wedge between Republicans and a constituency that they're looking to court ahead of November's elections. That's what today's vote is all about for them."

2012-05-08 12:19:50