Politics

At MACo, uneasiness rules the day

Listless economy has many county officials jittery

• Ballot questions approved
• Victims' families to call for death penalty repeal
• O'Malley touts Montgomery program in energy speech
• Senator vows to fight reform school plan
• Voter rolls show rough road for GOP
• Just what the doctors ordered
• Slots foes press case at MACo
• Reporter's Notebook: The chairwoman's move to move is questioned
• Reporter's Notebook: Once a QB, always a QB
• Maryland students surge on state tests
• Money, planning needed to ensure state water supply
• Pipkin: Too early to consider new bridge policies
• Baltimore county executive on mend from emergency surgery
• Study positions Maryland fourth in state-local tax burden
• Prison staffers face ‘humiliating' strip-searches

Business Highlights

• Education sector mushrooms
• Discovery takes media into classroom
• Retailers glum over slow sales for school
• Chevy Chase Bank downgraded
• ‘Breakthrough' Verizon deal reached, staving off strike
• Bank of America slashes 77 jobs