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...wooden-domed building where General George Washington tendered his resignation to become G. Washington, Esq., and where the Continental Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris, Maryland's legislators of late have been busily writing some modern history. Last week, after decades of stand-pat government, the state's general assembly concluded its most productive, innovative session in memory. As a result, Annapolis-which once was proudly dubbed the Athens of America, but is better known today as Crabtown, after the Chesapeake crustaceans for which it is famed-fairly steamed with bipartisan mutual admiration...
Spiro ("Ted") Agnew, the fifth Republican Governor Maryland has had, said of the opposition's legislative leader: "One of the most skillful I've ever seen, completely reliable and willing to meet a problem." For his part, House Speaker Marvin Mandel allowed: "We've worked together well. The Governor has made every effort to cooperate...
...even spells out regulations for off-street parking in Baltimore. The legislature also adopted the state's first billion-dollar budget and passed a long-needed tax-reform measure, replacing the flat 3% state income tax with a graduated levy of from 2% to 5%, which will give Maryland a much-needed revenue boost of $120 million a year...
...everybody else really doing it? The answer is no. While Powell may be in a class by himself, few legislators would indulge in the shenanigans practiced by any of these three. Says Republican Representative Charles Mathias Jr. of Maryland: "Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are honest most of the time." Still, many legislators do accept practices which are separated only by a line-sometimes strong, sometimes faint-from the actions of the trio under recent scrutiny...
...absence of any federal legislation, the states have had to move on their own. Only eight of the 23 states in which strip miners operate have statutes requiring miners to reclaim their land; but the eight-Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Virginia-produce 80% of all strip-mined coal. And as the realization spreads of how badly strip mining destroys nature, the laws are getting tighter. Pennsylvania, for example, amended its existing law in 1963 to require that miners put everything back into the hole except the coal; Kentucky passed a similar measure last year...