• You might as well live: estate and inheritance tax make it highly inadvisable to die as a Maryland resident [TaxProf]
• “Foreclosures: The Chickens Come Home to Roost” [Calvert Institute, earlier]
• Courts task force created earlier this year will study costly and open-ended Civil Gideon proposals [courts]
• For your own good: state’s commissioner of financial regulation goes after banks that service payday lenders [Funnell]
• Governor candidates angle for union support, bids include “greater use of collective bargaining agreements on state construction projects” [WaPo]
• Really, it won’t kill you to respect people’s consciences on Frederick County boards and commissions [Bethany Rodgers, Frederick News Post on Pledge of Allegiance controversy, update, Ken at Popehat (“Freedom of conscience is like the good couch in the living room; it’s there to be had, not to be used.”), Gene Healy background] About time: city may ease restrictions on bed and breakfasts [Jen Bondeson, Frederick News Post]
• Only a handful of states join Maryland in policy of unionizing home child carers [Go Local Providence, more]

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