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Citing serious problems, the Board of Public Works took the advice of hundreds of protesting taxi drivers and rejected a controversial five-year $7.2 million contract for a Virginia company to operate the taxi franchise at Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport.
With a stern warning from Treasurer Nancy Kopp that the Board of Public Works would be watching closely, members unanimously approved a long-term lease that would make a new 93-bed Holy Cross Hospital the anchor of the Montgomery College Science and Technology Park in Germantown.
O’Malley brings home economic development, memories from Asian mission; BWI taxi drivers protest on eve of big vote; Stadium Authority OKs convention center feasibility study if the city helps pay; developmentally disabled wait years for services and will not all be helped with tax; state gets a D in manufacturing.
O’Malley and businesses report on results of 10-day three-country economic trip to Asia. University president hopes to bring Terps basketball to China.
Many people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are being left behind or underserved by state and national governments – including thousands in Maryland, according to a new study released on Tuesday.
Scores of honking cabs from BWI Airport circled the State House Tuesday morning in protest of the possible awarding of an exclusive contract to Dulles Airport Taxi that might cost many of them their jobs.
Federal, state and county officials Monday celebrated the kick-off of the 10-jurisdiction Inter-County Broadband Network that will spend $72 million in federal stimulus funds to connect hospitals, schools, police stations and major government facilities in the Baltimore-Washington corridor.
For the second hearing on the proposed fat toll hikes, a grand total of six people testified in Baltimore on Monday evening, wrapping up the meeting of the Maryland Transportation Authority in about 45 minutes. That was 20% more witnesses than the five people who testified at last week’s hearing in Shady Grove.
Annapolis developer Larry Hogan says his month-old organization, Change Maryland, was “born out of frustration.” “A lot of people are not happy with the direction of this state. Some businesses have closed and left the state. Others have just given up,” Hogan said in an interview about his new group.
Larry Hogan sits down with Len Lazarick of MarylandReporter.com to explain why he formed his new group, “Change Maryland.”
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