The Board of Public Works on Wednesday asked the the state’s wetlands administration to explain the high compensation rates of $175 per square foot proposed for three Cordish Power Plant restaurants in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor — Hard Rock, Dick’s Last Resort and Phillips Seafood.
Day: June 6, 2012
Md. construction firms passed over for BWI security checkpoint project
A Colorado firm that was the low bidder on a $44 million project at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport beat out two well-connected local companies — Bethesda’s Clark Construction Group and Whiting -Turner Construction headquartered in Baltimore. The Board of Public Works approved the contract for a new terminal connector and security checkpoint Wednesday.
Much waiting for Franchot: Comptroller wants board meetings to start on time
Comptroller Peter Franchot had waited long enough for the other two members of the Board of Public Works, the treasurer and the governor, to show up for their biweekly 10 a.m. meeting Wednesday. He told the packed room of “busy people” that the meetings should start on time.
State Roundup, June 6, 2012
As Maryland Live! gets ready to open tonight, questions arise about related topics: Where is the casino money promised for small minority- and women-owned businesses and what will happen to the rest of the state’s casinos should another one open? Meanwhile, gambling revenues are up over a year ago and security will be tight in and around Maryland Live!; Del. Tiffany Alston on trial over use of state funds; Sen. Brochin also calls for beefed up police at Inner Harbor; 80 protest Blaine Young’s run for governor; and ACLU says employees of Arundel County Leopold improperly accessed info on three.
High incarceration rates punish taxpayers as well, panelists say
Law enforcement, policymakers and justice advocates said Monday that excessive incarceration of blacks and other people of color is not only a moral injustice but doesn’t make economic sense for taxpayers. The Maryland State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights met in Annapolis to hear testimony on the disproportionate number of blacks incarcerated in Maryland and across the nation and its associated costs.
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