Here is a summary of Gov. Martin O’Malley’s $34.2 billion budget, balanced with no new taxes but continuing transfers special funds from Program Open Space and the Transportation Trust Fund.
Day: January 21, 2011
Blog: O’Malley wonks eloquent as budget briefing attracts record online viewers
Some people may think that spending more than an hour listening to an elected official speak in great detail about finances, projections and pensions is boring.
More than 1,700 people did not, as they watched Gov. Martin O’Malley’s budget press conference on live streaming video.
State Roundup, January 21, 2011
O’Malley presents his FY 2012 budget today. Policymakers say it has no furloughs, cuts in health care, no education increases, and less aid to counties; Montel Williams coming to Annapolis to stump for medical marijuana; Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Ken Ulman have significant campaign war chests; death penalty hearing scheduled; reaction to U.S. House vote on health care repeal.
Bill seeks to extend racial reporting of traffic stops
Sen. Lisa Gladden wants to renew race-based reporting on Maryland’s traffic stops, but Sen. Nancy Jacobs, a fellow member of the Judicial Proceedings Committee, said it would create more work for law enforcement for no reason.
The bill would continue the reporting statute that went into effect nine years ago, “when race-based traffic stops was a major issue across the state,” Gladden, a Democrat from Baltimore City, told the committee Thursday. The statute expired last year.
Montgomery College sued for giving in-county tuition to illegal immigrants
Three Montgomery County taxpayers are suing the community college there to halt its policy of granting its low in-county tuition rate to all recent graduates of county high schools, even if they are illegal immigrants.
The conservative nonprofit group Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit in Montgomery County Circuit Court in Rockville on Thursday.
Podcast: Reaction to House of Representatives vote on repealing health care reform
The day after House of Representatives Republicans voted to repeal federal health care reform, state lawmakers and policy groups held a press conference in Annapolis denouncing the vote. MarylandReporter.com’s Felicia Howard recorded this story about the state’s reaction.
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