By Len Lazarick Len@MarylandReporter.com Republican leaders are asking legislative budgeters to swallow “a bitter pill” of 1,500 layoffs and over $800 million in education spending cuts to fix “the long term affliction” of overspending and deficits. “This is tough...
Month: February 2010
State Roundup Feb. 24, 2010
Today we have lots of coverage of the Republicans' presentation of their proposed budget cuts to legislative leaders, the state-run workers' compensation insurance wants its independence, and the developer of slots at Arundel Mills mall is suing the county Board of...
Audit faults St. Mary’s College of Md. for land deal
By Andy Rosen Andy@MarylandReporter.com A legislative audit accuses St. Mary’s College of Maryland of improperly purchasing a tract of land near its campus from a person affiliated with the college, in a matter that has been referred to the criminal division of the...
In vitro coverage expansion bill passes Senate
By Erich Wagner Erich@MarylandReporter.com The Senate passed a provision narrowly expanding the mandated coverage of in vitro fertilization by health insurers, just a week after a tie vote by the body left the bill in limbo. The bill passed by a 25-20 vote, with the...
Transportation officials say BWI airport is not for sale, vow to cut travel overspending
By Erich Wagner Erich@MarylandReporter.com State transportation officials dispelled speculation that the state might sell BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport at a budget hearing Monday, and the head of the airport promised that staff overspending on overseas travel brought...
State Roundup Feb. 23, 2010
STATE OF BALTIMORE: Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake gave her first State of the City address. The Daily Record's Robbie Whelan writes that it focused mainly on the city's budget problems. Gary Haber has the Baltimore Business Journal's story. Julie Scharper...
Podcast: Disabled have been waiting years for more funds to help them cope
On Thursday, hundreds of people with developmental disabilities and their advocates plan to march on the Maryland State House to dramatize their pleas for more funding and an alcohol tax hike to pay for it.
In an audio piece, Natalie Neumann describes the problems they are facing through the eyes of Jason Avara, a 28-year-old Glen Burnie resident with cerebral palsy.
Chesapeake Bay Conference Center not meeting debt costs
By Andy Rosen Andy@MarylandReporter.com The state has added the Chesapeake Bay Conference Center in Cambridge, with its Hyatt Regency hotel, to its list of “problem” projects that it has helped finance, as a rough 2009 hurt business and the facility’s ability to pay...
State Roundup Feb. 22, 2010
Lots of slots news today as a state panel wants changes to Maryland's gambling program, and vendors keep spending to win business. Reports raise new alarms about state pensions, and we gear up for an interesting budget hearing. SLOTS: The state panel overseeing the...
Maryland’s bright credit rating has a darker underside
By Len Lazarick Len@MarylandReporter.com Maryland retained its near-sacred triple-A bond rating from the three rating New York City rating agencies Thursday. The State House press corps generally treated it with a shrug, despite the pleadings for coverage. No one,...
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