By Barbara Pash For MarylandReporter.com The Chesapeake Bay Trust is working on getting its message out after a poll found that many Marylanders -- including the 300,000 people who paid extra for Save The Bay license plates -- don’t know what it is and what it does....
Day: November 15, 2010
National Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors honors MarylandReporter.com
PHOENIX -- Capitolbeat, the national Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors, honored MarylandReporter.com’s coverage of state government with two awards Saturday at the close of its annual conference in the Arizona capital. MarylandReporter.com editor Len...
Commission studying pension and retiree benefits plans public hearing today
By Megan Poinski Megan@MarylandReporter.com The Public Employees’ and Retirees’ Pension Benefit Sustainability Commission will hear what employee groups, unions and the general public think about some possible changes to retirement benefits Monday afternoon. Maryland...
Chesapeake Bay Trust expands its reach
The Chesapeake Bay Trust is working on getting its message out after a poll found that many Marylanders — including the 300,000 people who paid extra for Save The Bay license plates — don’t know what it is and what it does.
Today, the trust launched the Chesapeake Conservation Corps with a new public outreach campaign that includes outdoor billboards, social media sites and even a free mobile phone application with a guide to Chesapeake Bay wildlife.
National Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors honors MarylandReporter.com
Capitolbeat, the national Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors, honored MarylandReporter.com’s coverage of state government with two awards Saturday at the close of its annual conference in the Arizona capital.
MarylandReporter.com editor Len Lazarick won the first place Cappie award for coverage in the online news category of the Excellence in State House Reporting contest for what the judges called his “solid body of beat reporting.”
Commission studying pension and retiree benefits plans public hearing today
The Public Employees’ and Retirees’ Pension Benefit Sustainability Commission will hear what employee groups, unions and the general public think about some possible changes to retirement benefits Monday afternoon.
Maryland currently has an estimated $33 billion in unfunded liabilities for benefits it has promised to pay over the next three decades — $18 billion for pensions and $15 billion for retiree health insurance.
State Roundup, November 15, 2010
ARRE STS OF PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY EXEC and HIS WIFE MORE ARRESTS EXPECTED: The arrests Friday of Prince George's County Exec Jack Johnson and his wife Leslie, newly elected to the County Council, suggest that a federal investigation of corruption in county...
State Roundup, November 19, 2010
DEVORE LEAVING: Juvenile Services Secretary Donald DeVore -- the leader of the often-troubled agency since 2007 -- announced Thursday that he is leaving his post, report Sarah Breitenbach and Alan Brody of The Gazette. He is the first Cabinet secretary to leave office...
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