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Former Gov. Bob Ehrlich today rolls out a small business initiative as he campaigns to get back his old job.
He told reporters the proposals will be a combination of “things that worked” from his first administration, ideas that come from a series of roundtable discussions he’s held with more than 100 businesses, and best practices “we were able to steal from other states.”
The state is out of stimulus cash for roads, gubernatorial candidates differ on business and O'Malley seeks to use the undergraduate tuition freeze to his advantage in November. STIMULUS GONE: The state is out of federal stimulus money for road projects, Adam Bednar...
Area governors meet about Chesapeake Bay restoration, O'Malley launches a small business commission, and Democrats look to pick up even more seats in the General Assembly. Plus, the state board of elections endorsed new rules for campaigns using social media. SLOTS...
Reporters come and reporters go, and nobody much notices except their colleagues and competitors, the officials they cover and the public relations folks who try to get their attention. Associate Editor Andy Rosen has been part of this project from the start, and I’m sad to report Andy will be leaving us June 15.
The Maryland Stadium Authority hasn’t collected $1.8 million in outstanding bills from its tenants, including more than $800,000 from the Baltimore Orioles, according to a state audit released Thursday.
The authority’s contract with the Orioles requires that the team pay 25 percent of its advertising revenue from Oriole Park at Camden Yards to the state, auditors said. But the team has argued that certain advertising revenues are not subject to rental payments.
BAY RESTORATION: Governors from Maryland and Virginia will be meeting with representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency today to discuss Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts, while Pennsylvania's governor will miss the meeting, according to the Associated...
The newly-appointed student member for the University System of Maryland Board of Regents says he wants to use his new position to enhance academia at historically black colleges.
Leslie Hall, who takes a seat on the board in July, says he can provide the “diverse point of view” that the panel is lacking, as only one of three members who has attended an historically black college or university.
Anne Arundel County residents have been waiting a long time for Janet Owens to make up her mind about running against her successor John Leopold for a third term as county executive.
A poll she’s putting into the field next week will help Owens decide whether to try and reclaim the job she held for eight years.
Ann Marie Doory’s daughter Beth was just a year-and-a-half old when Doory was sworn in to the House of Delegates in 1987. Now, as Doory leaves the legislature to accept the governor’s appointment to the Board of Contract Appeals, Beth has just graduated from law school at the University of Baltimore.
She’s joining the family trade, if you will. Her dad, Robert, is a lawyer and Ann Marie is a member of the bar as well. (Uncle Timothy is a Circuit Court judge.)
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