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Here's one of the bigger surprises of the Maryland political year so far: U.S. Rep. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., the leading Republican candidate for governor, thinks Gov. Parris N. Glendening (D) did something right.

Ehrlich thinks Glendening's signature "smart growth" program, which aims to curb suburban sprawl and preserve open space, is good.

"Those programs work," Ehrlich said. "Smart growth to me is a lot of common sense."

Ehrlich said if elected governor, he would continue programs to protect undeveloped land and work to improve inner-city neighborhoods, another component of the governor's anti-sprawl agenda.

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