In Maryland, we saw the largest tax increase in our history last year. Today, politicians in Washington are talking about similar tax hikes on the middle class and small business owners. We need a congressman who will fight to protect Maryla...

As a public school teacher and member of the Maryland State Teachers Association, I am disappointed that we teachers have to stoop so low as to back slot machines with the hope of receiving more funding.

As a math teacher, I am even more disappointed at what that must mean about our failure to teach that unit on probability. In fact, wouldn't this whole idea of slot machines...

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With these issues in mind it is important that during this election citizens support a major county initiative which impacts the Board of Education. Over the years the Teachers Association of Anne Arundel County has worked closely with community, civic, school and faith based organizations to bri...

John McCain is a solid supporter of Bush, even after he was treated poorly by Bush in pr...

Education is being funded now, and any money from slots will just replace current funding. No more funding will be made for education. It is a shell game. Sure the slot money will go to education, but all the current money will be removed, so education's net gain will be zero.

Other states have done the same thing with slots and other gamb...

Sen. Obama has offered Joe and the vast majority of plumbers (median salary: $38,000 annually) a tax break. (It seems this would be particularly helpful to Wurzelbacher, who apparently has fallen behind on his current tax payments.) To help pay for this tax break, Mr. Obama plans to increase...

MICHAEL W. KELLER

Annapolis

Why is a constitutional amendment necessary to do this? Since current law prohibits slots, then change the law. However, let the race track owne...

Sen. John McCain and ...

Once again, funding for education is being used like it was when the lottery was passed. Education...

Pope Benedict XVI has said "...a political commitment to a single isolated aspect of the church's social ...

African American Republican congressional candidates Dr. Deborah Travis Honeycutt, (Georgia); Antoine Members (Illinoi...

My strong recommendation is for Gov. O'Malley and his political friends to take a walking tour of Atlantic City. And I do not mean the inside of the casinos. He should spend the entire day walking the streets, the boardwalk and alley ways, question the residents, stop in at the local diner, the rehab. hall, maybe take photos and publish ...

Government gets to keep money (tax it) on gambling not once, but three times.

First, government taxes income so the ...

JACQUELINE IANNUZZI

Annapolis

I might well vote for Republicans if they became the party of fiscal responsibility. There are few issues of greater long-term importance, and neither party is currently addressing the problem. Fiscal responsibility means reducing the deficit and national debt and strengthening the governmen...

This year legislation was needed to close a regulatory loophole and guarantee that animal shelters had access to the narcotics needed to sedate animals be...

It is not government's function to make everything f...

StopSlotsMaryland pointed out that to meet the target slots revenue, Marylanders need to lose $1.4 billion. $400 million will be given to the Canadian casino ow...

In fact, the context of Kratovil's phrase, spoken to a group at Salisbury University, was: "The bigger issue is, what do we do now. As I mentioned in my talk, in t...

I put my McCain/Palin sticker on and take a ride. Within a five mile ride, I began to figure it out. It's been a while since I've heard so many "explicit" words in such a short sentence. My cousin told me she was shocked that McCain followers smiled and gave a thumbs up - they waved with five fingers, while the Obama followers only used one finger to wave. M...

We will vote for a candidate who assigns first priority to aggressively countering this threat, a...

Mr. St. John is a developer and obviously a very wealthy man. Kudos and congratulations to his accomplishments and generosity.

I was reminded as I read this editorial of others in this area who have donated millions o...

I underestimated the lack of character of Democrats. After all, this is the party who wants to tax the 5 percent of taxpayers and small businesses who are already paying 57 percent of all taxes. Under Obama's tax plan, 40 percent of ta...

"Apparently there is something about Sarah Palin that causes some people to think of her as either the best of candidates or the worst of candidates. She draws enthusiastic crowds and provokes visceral hostility in the media. The issue that is raised most often is her relative lack of experience and the fact that she would be '...

We know the money will not go to the teachers and police - that's where the money from the lottery was supposed to go and look how long it took legislators to get their hands on that money. Clearly, the real money will go to the out-of-state casino owners and others.

And who will be left holding th...

This intense political contention highlights our current-day social and ideological instability, which started seriously affecting most Americans in the '60s. Our people are no longer united by common moral ideals based on reality; each indi...