Legislative leaders took a new approach to setting budget targets Tuesday, telling the governor and lawmakers that they wanted to see the persistent $2 billion structural deficit cut by a third next year, meaning a $670 million real reduction in general fund spending.
The Spending Affordability Committee, made up of 21 fiscal leaders in the General Assembly, abandoned setting a percentage target for budget growth as they had for the last 28 years — a target sometimes disregarded by governors.
Legislative leaders on Tuesday approved a strengthened policy on use of General Assembly computers that emphasizes there is no right to privacy in the use of these systems, and that their use can monitored by IT staff. At a meeting of the Legislative Policy Committee,...
By Len Lazarick Len@MarylandReporter.com The no-growth budget for next year that legislative leaders recommended Thursday, combined with a promise of no new taxes, might soon look like a relic of the good old days if a new report from the Department of Legislative...
By Len Lazarick Len@MarylandReporter.com A commission on state retirement benefits voted Monday to recommend cutting the state costs of health insurance 10% by hiking premiums and reducing coverage for state employees and retirees, and shifting half the costs of...
Before beginning his second four-year term as Maryland governor, Martin O’Malley is taking some time out to listen to what some people have to say.
O’Malley held the first of five “Maryland Forward” forums on Monday in Gaithersburg at the National Institute for Standards and Technology campus.
Claiming that the state ignored procurement laws to award the contracts for the $1.5 billion State Center development project, a group of large property owners in Baltimore’s central business district sued the government and State Center developers on Friday, hoping to bring the project to a halt.
The massive project occupying more than eight-square blocks has had the enthusiastic backing of Baltimore elected officials and persistent skeptical analyses from the legislature’s staff.
Andy Rosen Andy@MarylandReporter.com There was little agreement between business and labor groups about unemployment insurance on Thursday as Gov. Martin O’Malley’s staff laid out his legislative plan for revamping it in 2010. At a meeting of the Joint Committee on...
By Len Lazarick Len@MarylandReporter.com The governor Maryland voters elect next year should get a $5,000 pay raise in 2013 and 2014, bringing the salary up to $160,000, the Governor’s Salary Commission unanimously recommended Tuesday night. The seven-member...
STATE BUDGET: Gov. Martin O'Malley said that the state budget he proposes next month would be "more painful" than the last two, and hinted at deep cuts in spending, Annie Linskey reports for the Sun. CUTS LIKELY: And four state delegates from Howard County said they...
The $33 million state debt burden for the State Center parking garage, as well as the absence of a formal agreement on labor costs or local hiring, led Comptroller Peter Franchot to vote against approving the parking garage lease agreement at Wednesday’s Board of Public Works meeting.
The lease agreement was ultimately approved, with the board’s other two members Gov. Martin O’Malley and Treasurer Nancy Kopp voting for it.
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