The state fired back at the Baltimore property owners who have sued to stop the $1.5 billion State Center project, filing a countersuit on Friday demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars that delays in the project are costing the state. The countersuit states that the group of property owners – who collectively call themselves the Coalition to Save Downtown Baltimore – filed their initial lawsuit in December because they “cannot compete” with the State Center project.
Day: September 6, 2011
State Roundup, September 6, 2011
State watermen feel the pinch from crackdown on poaching in the Chesapeake; Franchot has raised the profile of the comptroller’s office enough to make it attractive; state Sen. Pinsky arrested in White House protest of “tar sands” pipeline; 20 seek Appeals Court seat; presidential candidate Rick Perry to fundraise in Baltimore; and more on Baltimore mayor’s race.
Less than half of stimulus jobs went to unemployed, study finds
Only about 43% of all jobs created by projects funded by the $787 billion federal stimulus bill went to people who were unemployed, according to a new study from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. The rest of the jobs, according to the study, went to people who were already employed elsewhere, were just out of college, or were not part of the labor force. Job-switchers got about 47% of all of the jobs created by the stimulus package, the study states.
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