Maryland’s “egalitarian” hospital system under challenge; Gansler vows to appeal DNA collection ruling to Supreme Court; state to upgrade Bay monitoring in fight against poaching; gambling expansion to be addressed this week; meanwhile traffic problems surrounding Maryland Live! as bad as predicted; state health officials hope to ban crib bumpers; and Karl Rove brings his hopeful message to Maryland GOP.
Month: June 2012
Voter fraud or voter suppression: right and left clash over election laws
Left and right disagree on whether efforts to require ID cards and other restrictions on voting amount to legitimate efforts to eliminate voter fraud or are really aimed at voter suppression based on a problem that doesn’t exist.
State Roundup, June 8, 2012
Gov. O’Malley is a member of the Screen Actors Guild, and other items from financial disclosure forms; foes of same-sex marriage law get enough signatures to put it on the ballot; marriage equality proponents open offices, hire staff; former state Treasurer, Del. Richard Dixon, dies; Maryland Live! Casino draws mega-crowds – politicians included; motion to acquit Del. Alston denied; and ‘heartless’ budget passes in Frederick.
Delaney out raised Bartlett in 6th District 2-to-1, but starts out even for the general; FEC questions Bartlett’s filings
Even without the $1.7 million Democratic congressional candidate John Delaney loaned himself to defeat party establishment favorite Rob Garagiola, Delaney managed to raise twice as much money during the primary election as Republican incumbent Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, now his general election opponent.
But heading into the fall campaign, both candidates started with about $300,000 cash on hand. And Delaney’s campaign says the wealthy commercial banker from Potomac will not be financing himself, as he did for much his primary expenses.
State Roundup, June 7, 2012
Maryland Live! opens; but how does Maryland’s new casino industry stack up against those established ones in neighboring states?; National Harbor gambling expert fails to soothe Cordish with prediction of windfall; Cordish scoffs at proposed state fee for tenants upgrading Power Plant restaurants; U.S. Rep. Hoyer’s daughter says she’s gay; and witness in trial of Del. Alston says she did legislative work on state dime.
High state fee for Inner Harbor piers rocks the boat at Board of Public Works
The Board of Public Works on Wednesday asked the the state’s wetlands administration to explain the high compensation rates of $175 per square foot proposed for three Cordish Power Plant restaurants in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor — Hard Rock, Dick’s Last Resort and Phillips Seafood.
Md. construction firms passed over for BWI security checkpoint project
A Colorado firm that was the low bidder on a $44 million project at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport beat out two well-connected local companies — Bethesda’s Clark Construction Group and Whiting -Turner Construction headquartered in Baltimore. The Board of Public Works approved the contract for a new terminal connector and security checkpoint Wednesday.
Much waiting for Franchot: Comptroller wants board meetings to start on time
Comptroller Peter Franchot had waited long enough for the other two members of the Board of Public Works, the treasurer and the governor, to show up for their biweekly 10 a.m. meeting Wednesday. He told the packed room of “busy people” that the meetings should start on time.
State Roundup, June 6, 2012
As Maryland Live! gets ready to open tonight, questions arise about related topics: Where is the casino money promised for small minority- and women-owned businesses and what will happen to the rest of the state’s casinos should another one open? Meanwhile, gambling revenues are up over a year ago and security will be tight in and around Maryland Live!; Del. Tiffany Alston on trial over use of state funds; Sen. Brochin also calls for beefed up police at Inner Harbor; 80 protest Blaine Young’s run for governor; and ACLU says employees of Arundel County Leopold improperly accessed info on three.
High incarceration rates punish taxpayers as well, panelists say
Law enforcement, policymakers and justice advocates said Monday that excessive incarceration of blacks and other people of color is not only a moral injustice but doesn’t make economic sense for taxpayers. The Maryland State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights met in Annapolis to hear testimony on the disproportionate number of blacks incarcerated in Maryland and across the nation and its associated costs.
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