DOZENS OF LICENSING, PERMIT FEES HAVE RISEN OVER TWO YEARS: Driver learners’ permits and specialty license plates. Permissions to work as a barber, nail technician, plumber or engineer. Vehicle registration, handgun permits and cigarettes. The cost for those and dozens of other types of licenses or activities regulated by the state of Maryland are ticking up, according to a review of Maryland regulations and laws passed in the last two years. Sam Janesch/The Baltimore Sun.