Day: December 29, 2009

Thin papers for the holidays, but good stories today about declining property tax assessments, the health care overhaul’s effect on Maryland, and the runup to the sale of the Preakness.

Maryland property tax assessments are being mailed today, and the have dropped by an average of 19.7 percent, according to Larry Carson at The Baltimore Sun. A top state official calls the three-year decline “unprecedented.”