DC-AREA ISSUES: Robert McCartney, Metro columnist of the Washington Post, looks at the issues pertinent to Washington area Marylanders in the race for the governor's mansion, including paying for Purple Line light-rail service between Bethesda and New Carrollton and...
Month: September 2010
More incumbent Md. senators lost their primaries than in any other state
By Len LazarickLen@MarylandReporter.com More incumbent state senators in Maryland lost their primary elections than in any of the 43 states electing their senates this year, according to a study by Ballotpedia. Of the 1,167 state senate seats at stake across the...
State Roundup, September 29, 2010
GRUDGE MATCH: Four years ago, Martin O’Malley tossed Bob Ehrlich out of the Maryland governor’s mansion. Now Ehrlich wants to return the favor, Susan Baer reports for the Washingtonian. O'MALLEY LEADS: O'Malley has opened up a significant lead over Ehrlich as newly...
Audit finds deficits and financial problems at fewer local governments despite bad year
By Megan Poinski Megan@MarylandReporter.com While the fiscal picture looks dreary for some local governments with deficits and missing audit reports, the annual review of financial reports by the Office of Legislative Audits found that most counties and municipalities...
State Roundup, September 28, 2010
EHRLICH BLASTS O'MALLEY: Republican former Gov. Bob Ehrlich accused the O'Malley administration of meddling with state labor department operations for political gain, releasing documents that illustrate how employees removed the downbeat jobs assessment from a website...
State Roundup, September 27, 2010
ECONOMIC POLICIES: Candidate and former Gov. Bob Ehrlich's diagnosis for the economic slump is similar to the reasons given by the national Democratic Party, blogs The Sun's Jay Hancock, and fits with his plank to cut the state sales tax from 6 percent to 5 percent....
Auditors find credit card misuse, failure to monitor $81M in contractor hours at corrections department
By Megan Poinski Megan@MarylandReporter.com State auditors are asking the attorney general’s office to consider criminal prosecution of a management employee of Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services who used his government credit card to spend $56,303...
Small business owners are disappointed with new federal jobs act
By Barbara Pash For MarylandReporter.com The federal Small Business Jobs Act that the president signed Monday is being hailed as a boon for small businesses, but some of the people for whom it is intended don’t see it that way. “The law falls short of addressing the...
State Roundup, September 24, 2010
STATE CENTER: The developer of the $1.5 billion State Center redevelopment in Midtown Baltimore would delay breaking ground on the project by at least a month unless city officials approve a financial incentive package for its construction, Daniel Sernovitz reports in...
New health care law will cause administrative headaches for Maryland firms, expert says
As the first of the national health care reform measures kicked in this week, scores of human resources and other executives from Maryland companies got a sobering presentation about how the new law will affect them from a national expert on employee benefits. Peter...
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