If negotiations between the NFL Players’ Association and team owners are unsuccessful in ending the current lockout, Maryland stands to miss out on as much as $42 million in revenues from the lost football season, according to a study done by Comptroller Peter Franchot and the Bureau of Revenue Estimates.
Len Lazarick
Libertarians, Greens get back on the ballot
The Libertarian and Green parties regained their official status on election ballots Tuesday after retired Anne Arundel Circuit Judge Eugene Lerner found they had collected enough signatures on petitions.
Business group ratings for lawmakers drop again
Business ratings for Democratic members of the Maryland House of Delegates showed a sharp drop this year and scores for state senators declined as well, according to the latest Roll Call report from Maryland Business for Responsive Government. The group has been rating Annapolis lawmakers for 25 years.
Deadline looms for emergency mortgage loans for state homeowners
In a use-it-or-lose-it arrangement, the Maryland Housing and Community Development Department has until September 30 to give out $36 million in federal emergency mortgage loans to state homeowners facing foreclosure.
Refunding bonds may save nearly $7 million of total state debt
As the state prepares to issue $512 million in new bonds next month, it is also making preparations to reduce the state’s debt nearly $7 million by refunding as much as $550 million in existing bonds.
Ehrlich fundraiser calls Henson hire ‘terrible mistake’; gov goes fishing and other briefs
Dick Hug, top fundraiser for ex-Gov. Bob Ehrlich for his last three campaigns, said hiring campaign consultant Julius Henson was “a terrible mistake” and he and Elaine Pevenstein, executive director of Ehrlich campaign office, argued against the hire. Henson and campaign chief Paul Schurick were indicted Thursday for deceptive Election Day robocalls telling black voters to stay home. Hug said Henson’s reputation for dirty tricks was well known, particularly his role in depicting Republican nominee Ellen Sauerbrey as a racist in her 1998 race for governor.
State Roundup, June 17, 2011
Two Ehrlich campaign aides indicted in election night robocalls; more than 1,000 come out against toll hikes in Perryville, Kent Island; Clagett may run for comptroller; national mayors in Baltimore; more political diversity needed at universities; county execs endorse Rawlings-Blake; Napata throws his hat in the ring for mayor.
Analysis: Citizen O’Keefe is really an anti-journalist
James O’Keefe and his surreptitious videos have helped bring down the ACORN community organization and the top executives at NPR, and he’s caused immense grief for the New Jersey teachers union and Planned Parenthood. He spoke in Timonium Wednesday night. Is he a “citizen journalist,” an “investigative reporter,” or really an “anti-journalist”?
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Airport taxi contract rejected; current contract extended 12 months for rebid
Editor’s note: We are late posting this story because of technical difficulties.
Citing serious problems, the Board of Public Works took the advice of hundreds of protesting taxi drivers and rejected a controversial five-year $7.2 million contract for a Virginia company to operate the taxi franchise at Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport.
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