The Maryland General Assembly website has tons of information on legislation that is sometimes easy to find, but often difficult to uncover, because the site hasn’t been substantially redesigned since it began 15 years ago.
The Maryland General Assembly website has tons of information on legislation that is sometimes easy to find, but often difficult to uncover, because the site hasn’t been substantially redesigned since it began 15 years ago.
The gap between the promises states have made for public employees’ retirement benefits and the money set aside to pay for them grew to at least $1.26 trillion in fiscal year 2009—a 26% increase in one year—according to a new report from the Pew Center for the States. Maryland ranks below more than half the states in its level of funding.
Constellation Energy and Exelon Corp. announce plans for merger, moving Fortune 500 HQ from Baltimore, but creating jobs; pension rate of return stays at 7.75%; Maryland ranks 19th in pension losses; Harris tells seniors Medicare can fix unsustainable spending plan; Robert Summers new Environment secretary; Cummings endorses Rawlings-Blake; talk of possible tax hikes may begin at roundtable on transportation funding; anti-in-state tuition for illegals may face insurmountable time and money challenges.
Maryland’s tight budget has prevented proper care of many items in the state art collection. “We have not ever gotten adequate funding for the maintenance side of dealing with the collection,” said Edward Papenfuse, the head of the archives. “A painting is in many ways almost a living and breathing object.”
Attorney General Doug Gansler sent me a letter the other day. Real snail-mail with a stamp and all, and it wasn’t a “cease and desist” order.
It was a “Dear Friend” campaign solicitation, thanking me “so very much for your continued trust” and noting in the very first sentence that in November he got “the most votes ever cast for a Maryland statewide candidate,” 1.3 million.
Although there was not as much money flowing in the 2010 gubernatorial election, Gov. Martin O’Malley and Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown got the same amount of campaign donations last year as they did in 2006, according to a new report. This amounted to $5.5 million, or two-thirds more than Republican opponents Bob Ehrlich and Mary Kane.
The poultry industry helps drive the economy of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, but poultry litter — chicken manure — has been blamed as one of the greatest contributors to pollution in the Chesapeake Bay. Large producers, farmers, and state initiatives alike are working together to lessen the industry’s environmental impact while preserving the businesses.
Tea Partiers across Maryland are saying the referendum effort to repeal newly passed legislation allowing illegal immigrants to receive in-state college tuition rates is exactly the fight they’ve been waiting for.
“There’s no question we are going to be involved,” said Potomac Tea Party blogger Ann Corcoran. “This is an opportunity to broaden our reach to Democrats, independents and those who see this as a fairness issue, and we see this as a fabulous opportunity to organize conservatives across the state of Maryland in preparation for 2012.”
All in all, he’d rather have stayed in Baltimore.
William Donald Schaefer returned to the State House on Monday in the first stage of his three-day funeral. It was a place he never really wanted to be, but that’s where the politicians wanted him to be.
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