I was having breakfast with a Maryland developer on the beachfront patio of a Florida country club 28 years ago when I learned that taxes have economic consequences. Between jobs in journalism, I was doing a newsletter for a new venture the man had set up in Florida.
CLOSED MEETING CHOSE KLAUSMEIER FOR BaCo EXEC: The Baltimore County Council held an unpublicized, closed meeting last Friday to discuss who should be the next county executive. With that meeting, the council appears to run afoul of Maryland’s Open Meetings Act. On...
Maryland voters oppose any increase in taxes to deal with a looming $2.7 billion state deficit as the Maryland General Assembly convenes Wednesday, according to a new poll from Gonzales Research & Media Services. Opponents of raising the state’s income tax, sales...
HAPPY NEW YEAR! ***THE END IS HERE: FINAL DAY OF NEWSMATCH CAMPAIGN: Today is the last day to have your contribution doubled in Maryland Reporter’s annual NewsMatch fundraising campaign. Our nonprofit news site depends on private donations and foundation support to...
REMEMBERING JIMMY CARTER: As word spread Sunday that Jimmy Carter, the nation’s 39th president, had died, many in Maryland turned to social media to share their reactions. Here’s a compilation of their remarks. Baltimore Sun staff A photo gallery of decades worth of...
The posters put up by the staff of U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin said, “Thank you Howard County,” but they might just as well have said “Thank you, Ben” from the elected officials who met with the retiring senator Friday.
The effusive praise and thanks for Cardin’s 58 years of elected service were mutual in the second leg of his “farewell tour” of the state. He’s represented Marylanders for 18 years in the Senate, 20 years in the U.S. House and 20 years in the state House of Delegates, including eight as speaker.
This column appears in the December issue of The Business Monthly newspaper serving Howard and Anne Arundel counties. The convincing victory of Donald Trump and a Republican Congress sent millions of Democrats into a deep funk. What was bad news for many voters...
Dear Subscriber, Happy Birthday to us. Hard to believe that MarylandReporter.com launched 15 years ago tomorrow, Nov. 2, 2009, with the help of a foundation worried about the loss of state government reporting. We were the first nonprofit news website in Maryland...
Maryland Reporter will not be endorsing any political candidates this year or any other, even if we wanted to. But we don’t.
DALI OWNERS WILL PAY U.S. $102M FOR KEY BRIDGE DISASTER: The owners and operators of the ship that destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in March, killing six workers and paralyzing the Port of Baltimore, will pay more than $100 million to the Justice Department to...
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