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...
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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...
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