Dec 30, 2007, Washington Post Worst Consumer News, Runner - up : The eleventh-hour special session vote to apply the state sales tax to [computer services] caught business groups and computer owners by surprise. A movement to repeal the tax -- estimated to raise $200 million a year -- is growing. [Full...

Dec 2, 2007 - Baltimore Sun, C. Fraser Smith The legislative special session may be thought of as an advertisement for [lobbyists]. The record will show that if you had a lobbyist, you were more likely to escape revenue-raising unscathed. If you didn't have a lobbyist, you were sitting there waiting...