O’Malley passed the crisis management test during Hurricane Irene; remaining power outages examined and Lt. Gov. Brown briefed; Maryland has no law requiring motorists to stop if traffic lights are out; Senate hearing highlights Maryland-Virginia business rivalry; Maryland government jobs grew; wind power study starts.
Day: August 31, 2011
To create more jobs, Maryland must beat Virginia, senators are told
Maryland needs to be more business friendly than Virginia to create more jobs and stabilize the state’s economy, a panel of business leaders told the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee Tuesday. The hearing, scheduled to discuss corporate taxes and job creation, zeroed in on how Maryland needs to become a better place to do business than neighboring Virginia, which panelists said is the state’s only real competition in terms of getting businesses and creating jobs.
BGE tells Brown: ‘We’re working as quickly as we can’
BGE officials at a temporary regional command center in Odenton briefed Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown on Tuesday on their efforts to restore power to hundreds of thousands of homes in central Maryland after Tropical Storm Irene passed through. Darryl Stokes, BGE vice president for engineering, told Brown that they hope to have electricity back for most customers by the end of the day Friday.
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