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Maryland lawmakers face budget gap, political warfare in new session
Lawmakers left Annapolis last year with a modest budget surplus and talk of a bipartisan tax cut.
This year, they return to dismal financial prospects, readied for partisan warfare.
The surplus has evaporated, as have the calls for cooperation that heralded the start of the past two General Assembly sessions.
Leaders of both major parties fear policy debate could be overshadowed by political maneuvering that jump-starts the 2018 campaign season.
Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-general-assembly-preview-20170107-story.html
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The optics of the situation won't be pretty. 
And Annapolis is such a pretty place!!! 
