A consumer advocacy group is giving state lawmakers high scores for passing laws in the 2014 General Assembly session that raise the minimum wage and reduce the impact of foreclosures.
The Maryland Consumer Rights Coalition, a nonprofit whose mission includes advancing fairness and justice for consumers, also released four-year scores that depicted state lawmakers as generally favorable to consumer issues. Only nine of 47 senators and 46 of 141 delegates got four-year scores lower than 80%.
The single most important lesson Richard Douglas learned over 30 years of involvement with U.S. immigration, nationality, and visa policy is this: the system has no unifying vision. It is instead a crazy-quilt of special provisions for special categories of people. What should America’s vision be for 21st century immigration policy? The central objective of our immigration policy, day and night, must be to promote American economic development.
Despite deadline, medical marijuana commission still has unfinished business; 11,000 pieces of surplus DOD weapons, equipment transferred to state law agencies since 1995; Franchot calls for three-year hiatus on tax hikes; 200 Dept. of Environment workers given leave after office bed bug invasion; the man behind Caesars Entertainment is a math wizard; portrait of Frederick Douglass hung in Government House; it’s not just candidates who file campaign finance complaints; Hogan, Brown see transit projects in two different lights; Dems blast Hogan over 1994 bankruptcy; NOW asks gov candidates views on women’s issues; and the next Arundel County exec will get a pay raise.
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