Marylanders worried that talk of looming billion-dollar state deficits could lead to tax hikes got some reassuring words Wednesday from the Democratic governor and Senate president. “Any conversation around taxes, people need to understand that my bar for that is very, very high,” Gov. Wes Moore told reporters.
Are we being set up for state tax increases to fund transportation? That’s the question that came to mind after Maryland Transportation Secretary Paul Wiedefeld announced that the state would need to cut highway and transit projects by 8%, as well as state aid for county roads to compensate for a projected $3.3 billion deficit in the state Transportation Trust Fund in coming years. As expected, local officials and residents impacted by the cuts squealed.
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State superintendent of schools might sound like a really important job – but it has less power than its importance. It is much like being prime minister of one of those coalition governments in parliamentary systems made up of splinter parties with conflicting ideologies.
As was easily predictable, Gov. Wes Moore gave his full-throated backing to Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks in the Democratic contest for U.S. Senate, endorsing the woman whose support in her home county he has credited with helping clinch his own...
The Alsobrooks campaign is not bashful about boasting of her 100+ endorsements from current and former officials across Maryland. That was underscored at a press conference in Baltimore Friday where she picked up the backing of yet another one of the state’s most important Democrats, Senate President Bill Ferguson.
The race to succeed Ben Cardin in the U.S. Senate next year may not have heated up for the average voter. But three of the Democratic hopefuls for the job were sweating it out at a steamy Democratic Labor Day picnic in Columbia Monday. U.S. Rep. David Trone,...
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The Columbia Flier newspaper, once essential reading in the early decades of the planned community in Howard County, will no longer be published, the Baltimore Sun Media Group announced Thursday. The final edition of the newspaper is being delivered free to homes in Columbia, as it has been for the past 54 years.
Hundreds of Columbia, Maryland’s often odd and unusual street names are drawn from the works of famous American authors and poets – mostly the works of old, dead white men. On Thursday, the Howard Hughes Corp., the successor developer of Columbia, announced it would...
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