The following column appears in the May issue of The Business Monthly, serving Howard and Anne Arundel counties. I got a phone call from an old friend in the tech industry a week before the legislature closed up shop April 7. He wanted to know if the proposed 3% tax...
Eighty years ago, on April 1, a Sunday in 1945, seven troop divisions, four Army, three Marine, landed on the beaches of Okinawa, a remote tropical island the size of Prince George’s County.
Dan Rupli, lawyer, congressional candidate, civil rights enforcer and progressive activist, died Thursday at 82 from a fall and complications of dementia. Dan first came to prominence in 1976 when he mounted a liberal challenge to Rep. Goodloe Byron in the 6th...
This column appears in the March issue of The Business Monthly serving Howard and Anne Arundel counties. A half century ago, I spent a year in the belly of the federal bureaucracy at the Social Security Administration. I was a GS-7 in the Health Insurance Inquiries...
Frank Turner, who represented Howard County in the legislature for 24 years and was a business professor at Morgan State University for 41 years, died Friday in Columbia at 77. In 1994, Turner was the first African American elected to the General Assembly from Howard County.
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...
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