- Prosecution for profit: False Claims Act, empowering private lawyers to sue businesses on behalf of the state and rake off 25 percent bounty for themselves, passes House of Delegates on near-party line vote [roll call, text, Chamber view, COST on tax-dispute angle]
- Senate votes 36-8 to decriminalize marijuana [Capital Gazette, WBAL] U-MD paper covers panel discussion I was on recently in College Park [Diamondback]
- Fiasco of state’s ObamaCare exchange continues to resonate [Petula Dvorak, WaPo; picking up and starting over; Geoffrey Norman, Weekly Standard]
- Cronyism in hospitality politics discourages the less well-connected [Vinny Sidhu, Point of Law]
- Committee kills proposed first-in-nation ban on sale of energy drinks to minors [CBS Baltimore, Assembly]
- Time to rein in Maryland’s license-plate-recognition surveillance system? [Capital News Service, earlier]
- Much lauded by politicos, Frederick Housing Authority-assisted “first net-zero energy neighborhood in the nation” flounders amid financial, legal, logistical setbacks [Frederick News-Post]
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