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Maryland Election Referendum: Tuition, Marriage, Gambling
See that line? That’s the first-day of early voting at Berlin in Worcester County, Maryland. You can expect long lines at Maryland polling places for the Presidential Election on Tuesday. The reason: Ballot questions that voters know are important, so they take the time to read all the questions in the voting booth and make their decisions. The solution: Get familiar […]
Now Mike Miller Wants Slots in Prince Georges
January 19, 2010
Not a single slot machine has been put in service in Maryland, and already Senate President Mike Miller is suggesting adding a casino in his home county, Prince Georges, according to reports in the Washington Post and Baltimore Sun. This is the latest development in the slots fiasco in Maryland. Voters OK’d 5 Slots Loations, […]
Special Session Fatigue in Maryland (Slot Machines Were the Last Straw)
April 19, 2009
The once-a-year session of the Maryland General Assembly has been a historical curiosity for a long time. Now it is becoming a downright embarrassment. Maryland needed a Special Session, after four years of deadlock over slot machines. The Special Session brought progress — the lawmakers agreed they were unworthy to decide on slots within the […]
Baltimore Sun Is Wrong On Slots
October 20, 2008
It is hard to accept that The Baltimore Sun has come out in support of slot machines in Maryland. The Sun editorial page has been strongly and consistently opposed to slots, like . . . forever. The Sun has published at least 75 editorials against slots over the past 10 years. Now, with the slots […]
Maryland Slot-Machine Referendum Outlook
September 10, 2008
Voters are having second thoughts about reintroducing slot machines in Maryland. A new statewide poll by Gonzales Research & Marketing Strategies finds that support for slots has dropped five points this year, falling below the 50 percent line. Opposition to slots has increased five points. The Gonzales survey of 833 likely voters showed 49 percent […]
Slots In Maryland – All About Money
May 18, 2008
The secret conference room is not in Annapolis, as you might think, and probably not in Baltimore. It is somewhere in Maryland, the way Camp David is in Maryland. You’ve heard about it, but you can never go there, or even find it on a map. This secret room has one door and no windows. […]
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