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Monday, May 31, 2010
 Bill Campbell has been the chief financial officer for the U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs, for the Coast Guard and for Amtrak, and
now he’s looking to become CFO for the state of Maryland. More |
Friday, May 28, 2010
On Memorial Day 65 years ago, the final bloody battle of the Pacific was
still being fought on Okinawa, the capital of a once peaceable kingdom
where weapons had been banned and karate invented to replace them.
Like all those islands bought with blood, its name was unfamiliar to
folks back home who were well acquainted with the better known and more
hospitable battlegrounds of Europe.
Many people perhaps first learned some of the story of Okinawa just this
month from episode nine of The Pacific, the HBO miniseries. Okinawa is one of the least depicted because,
as the episode made clear, it is a tale of death and destruction so
woeful as to be unimaginable except that it actually occurred. There were 234,000 killed all told, about 147,000 of them civilians.
Above: Seven veterans of the Okinawa battle at Fort Benning, GA, on April 15. Leonard W. Lazarick Sr. is second from left.
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Thursday, May 27, 2010
 Child care providers are split over a new Maryland law that gives them
the option to join a union if they subscribe to the state Child Care
Subsidy Program.
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Thursday, May 27, 2010
| Gov. Martin O'Malley signed an executive order last week authorizing
furloughs and pay cuts for state employees for the coming fiscal year,
but at the request of the largest union of state workers, he added a
provision granting furloughed workers paid administrative leave in the
following year for the same amounts. More |
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
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Failing schools in Maryland that replaced most of their staff in an
effort to improve have not been able to attract and retain effective
teachers, according to a new report. More |
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
| Each year, after the legislators go home, the lawyers in the attorney general's office review
each proposed law for “constitutionality” and “legal sufficiency” –
making sure that each bill really ought to be a law. This year for the first time they did it all electronically, replacing a
cumbersome paper process. More |
Monday, May 24, 2010
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The state has spent only about $210,000 in rebates for Marylanders who
purchase energy efficient appliances after the first month of a federal
stimulus program offering $5.4 million to aid economic and environmental
recovery.
About 2,100 applications have been sent into the program from around
state with an average $100 rebate for second generation,
energy-efficient appliances such as dishwashers, refrigerators and water
heaters.
The program works in tandem with the Maryland Energy Administration and
electricity suppliers, who are set to meet Wednesday to
discuss ways to increase participation. More |
Monday, May 24, 2010
| Gov. Martin O'Malley has allowed a bill authorizing the State Board of
Education to open "virtual public schools" to go on the books without
his signature because of the program's lack of funding mechanism. More |
Sunday, May 23, 2010
For most purposes, the work of this term of the Maryland General
Assembly wrapped up Thursday with the final bill signing before the
election. “This is the end of a four-year term,” said House Speaker
Michael Busch.
For any elected official with ambition – perhaps a redundancy – the next
election is never totally out of mind. But with the last legislation
signed into law and the official photographs to prove it, most lawmakers
are now focused on the Sept. 14 primary and Nov. 2 general election.
Above, legislators, including election opponents, line up behind the governor and presiding officers for the official photos at a bill signing Thursday.
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Friday, May 21, 2010
| People who work in the developmental disabilities service field could be in line to receive pay increases. Gov. Martin O’Malley signed into law a bill that aligns mental health caregivers with state employees when it comes to cost of living, inflationary and general salary increases. More |
Friday, May 21, 2010
| A committee charged with finding a buyer for the financially troubled
Prince George's County hospital system announced there were no suitable
buyers interested in the whole system. More |
Thursday, May 20, 2010
| Maryland's utilities will have to step up the amount of solar power
in the mix of energy they sell to customers, under a bill signed into
law Thursday by Gov. Martin O'Malley. More |
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