Legum’s New Line

Governor O’Malley proposes regulations to extend health benefits to state employees in same-sex relationships and their dependent children. [Maryland Gazette]

Yesterday, the state received six bids to build slot parlors authorized last year by referendum. The bids propose operating 10,550 slot machines, even though voters authorized up to 15,000. Revenue projections included in state budgeting “envision the full 15,000 machines.” [Maryland Daily Record]

In Maryland and across the nation, the tide is turning against the death penalty. [Time]

At the current rate of progress, it would take the states participating in the Chesapeake Bay Program (NY, PA, MD, DC, WV, VA, DE) another forty years to meet the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2010 goals. [Gannett]

Controversial environmental author Tom Horton holds a symposium tomorrow in Salisbury entitled “Growth is Killing Chesapeake Bay: A Challenge to Maryland’s Government and Environmentalists.” [Bay and Environment]

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