Bill Campbell has been the chief financial officer for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, for the Coast Guard and for Amtrak, and now he’s looking to become CFO for the state of Maryland.
“I think Maryland is in very severe financial straits,” Campbell said. That’s why the Republican is running for elected office for the first time, hoping to challenge Democratic Comptroller Peter Franchot in the fall. “I’m deeply concerned that we are about to have a financial catastrophe.”
On Memorial Day 65 years ago, the final bloody battle of the Pacific was still being fought on Okinawa, the capital of a once peaceable kingdom where weapons had been banned and karate invented to replace them.
Like all those islands bought with blood, its name was unfamiliar to folks back home who were well acquainted with the better known and more hospitable battlegrounds of Europe. Okinawa was a strange and far-off place with inhabitants unlike ourselves.
SLOTS TRIAL: Lawyers for Cordish Cos. began their closing arguments Thursday in an attempt to persuade an Anne Arundel County Circuit Court judge that the slots petition was wrongly approved by the county elections board, Liz Farmer writes in The Daily Record....
Gov. Martin O’Malley signed an executive order last week authorizing furloughs and pay cuts for state employees for the coming fiscal year, but at the request of the largest union of state workers, he added a provision granting furloughed workers paid administrative leave in the following year for the same amounts.
State employees making at least $40,000 per year will be required to take three furlough days, while employees making $50,000 and $100,000 will have to take four and five furlough days, respectively. Other workers, including “24/7” employees such as correctional and police officers, making less than $40,000 will lose three days worth of pay for those and those making more will lose five days worth of pay.
Child care providers are split over a new Maryland law that gives them the option to join a union if they subscribe to the state Child Care Subsidy Program.
Some caregivers are thrilled to finally “have a voice” when it comes to wages they receive from the state, while others are threatening to cut ties with the program that reimburses care for needy children.
OIL SPILL: Gov. Martin O’Mallley was given a lesson in oil spill cleanup and the state’s readiness in the the event an accident were to occur near Maryland shores, according to Annie Linskey for The Sun’s Maryland Politics blog. The Associated Press is reporting that...
Dan Friedman was a happy man as he sat last Thursday watching the governor sign the last of more than 740 bills the legislature enacted this year.
For Friedman, the counsel to the General Assembly, and his staff it marked the end of intense weeks of legal review that involved lawyers on the attorney general’s staff in many agencies of the state government. Each year, after the legislators go home, the lawyers have to review each proposed law for “constitutionality” and “legal sufficiency” – making sure that each bill really ought to be a law.
Failing schools in Maryland that replaced most of their staff in an effort to improve have not been able to attract and retain effective teachers, according to a new report.
The report by the Advocates for Children and Youth organization followed 13 schools that implemented a plan to replace most of their staff, called zero-basing, and found “no evidence” that these schools were following the practices that make the zero-basing policy effective, particularly holding on to effective teachers.
SLOTS TRIAL: An Anne Arundel County Circuit Court judge ruled that developer David Cordish's attorneys could not bring in a handwriting expert to testify that signatures on a petition to bring the issue of slots at Arundel Mills mall to referendum were forged, Steve...
EHRLICH OFF THE HOOK: Attorney General Doug Gansler’s office said yesterday that former Gov. Robert Ehrlich’s radio show on WBAL is not an illegal campaign contribution, according to the Associated Press. The Democratic Party complained to the State Board of...
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