Category: Commentary
ANOTHER ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY MISSED BY MARYLAND AN...
By Marc King | August 21, 2025 | Commentary | 0 |
Burning the Safety Net: Why Energy Poverty Matters...
By Felipe Martinez and Claudette Villegas | August 20, 2025 | Commentary | 0 |
Fewer donors giving blood; artificial substitutes ...
By Len Lazarick | August 19, 2025 | Commentary | 0 |
Profits Before People: The Real Reason Maryland Po...
By Tyrone E. Keys | August 11, 2025 | Commentary | 0 |
The Crooked Lines of Political Chutzpah
By Marc King | August 8, 2025 | Commentary | 0 |
WES MOORE JUST CAN’T HELP HIMSELF — BUT IS HE HELPING MARYLAND?
by Marc King | August 26, 2025 | Commentary | 0 |
At an event to highlight the rebirth of Pimlico Racetrack, Governor Moore just could not help himself. I suspect he feels that the Governor of California was out “trumping” him, so he went into his best anti-Trump rant as reported in Maryland Matters: “If you are not willing to be part of the solution, keep our names out of your mouth,” Moore said, eliciting cheers from the crowd. “Specifically, Donald Trump, if you are not willing to walk our communities, keep our name out of your mouth.”
Read MoreANOTHER ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY MISSED BY MARYLAND AND THE MOORE ADMINISTRATION
by Marc King | August 21, 2025 | Commentary | 0 |
Why would the Trump Administration’s plan to expand the country’s shipbuilding capacity be of interest to the states’ federal legislatures as well as the states’ governors? Because Maryland has a history of being a shipbuilding mecca. Let’s take a look at some history.
Read MoreBurning the Safety Net: Why Energy Poverty Matters Most in Maryland
by Felipe Martinez and Claudette Villegas | August 20, 2025 | Commentary | 0 |
Imagine having to choose between keeping your child’s medication cold or running the air conditioner during a 100+ degree heatwave. For more than 25 million Americans — including hundreds of thousands of Marylanders — this is daily life. This is energy poverty.
Read MoreFewer donors giving blood; artificial substitutes slow in coming
by Len Lazarick | August 19, 2025 | Commentary | 0 |
The following column appears in the September issue of The Business Monthly serving Howard and...
Read MoreProfits Before People: The Real Reason Maryland Power Bills Keep Rising
by Tyrone E. Keys | August 11, 2025 | Commentary | 0 |
As Marylanders endure another hot summer, skyrocketing power bills have sparked understandable frustration. Maryland Energy Administration Director Paul Pinsky and BG&E Vice President Mark Case have both weighed in on what’s driving these costs. Both point to the same culprit, the competitive energy market, but the data tells a different story.
Read MoreThe Crooked Lines of Political Chutzpah
by Marc King | August 8, 2025 | Commentary | 0 |
Chutzpah is a Yiddish term meaning audacity, nerve, or bold confidence, often with a connotation of brazenness or cheekiness. It can describe someone acting with shameless boldness, sometimes admirable for its courage, other times criticized for crossing ethical lines.
Read MoreLab Space Glut, Leadership Void: Montgomery County’s Economic Malaise
by Marc King | July 30, 2025 | Commentary | 0 |
Recently, the state lost a $50 billion opportunity to woo a major drug manufacturer to our shores. Wes Moore was asleep at the switch. In 2025, HHS grants to the state for health-related programs are estimated to be $11.6B — not bad, but Virginia scored $50 billion just by out-hustling the Moore administration. Now enter Montgomery County with its lackluster Executive and Council is whining about an ever-increasing issue … excess biolab space to the tune of over .5 million square feet and going up. Montgomery County and the state of Maryland continue to lose to surrounding jurisdictions when it comes to attracting new business to the state and the county.
Read MoreMaryland Gerrymandering Again
by Howard Gorrell | July 28, 2025 | Commentary | 0 |
As the first to challenge Maryland’s congressional district apportionment for the 2010 decade, I was heartened two days later (July 22) when House of Delegates Majority Leader, Del. David H. Moon (D-Montgomery Co.), announced his plan to draft legislation that would automatically redistrict Maryland if other states engage in out-of-cycle redrawing of congressional districts.
Read MoreIf Montgomery County Really Wanted Affordable Housing, It Would Open Up the Agricultural Reserve
by Mac Larimer | July 24, 2025 | Commentary | 4 |
If the Council were serious—dead serious—about making housing in Montgomery County more affordable, they wouldn’t be rearranging duplexes in Silver Spring. The Council would instead be ready to touch Montgomery County’s holiest of sacred cows, the Agricultural Reserve. There’s something weirdly poetic about the fact that you can’t afford to live in Montgomery County because know-it-all progressives decided horse farms were more important than people.
Read MoreAs Virgina Lands AstraZeneca Facility, Moore Administration Whistles Past The Graveyard
by Marc King | July 23, 2025 | Commentary | 0 |
While Maryland remains a critical R&D hub for AstraZeneca, Virginia’s selection as the manufacturing cornerstone also highlights the state’s rising prominence in advanced pharmaceutical production, potentially shifting the regional balance in the U.S. biopharma landscape. It’s a shift that Maryland cannot afford.
Read MoreA Right Worth Defending: What Enshrining Citizenship in Maryland Could Mean
by Andres Garcia Perez and Daniella Morales-Garibay | July 23, 2025 | Commentary | 0 |
As federal agencies roll back protections for immigrants and the Supreme Court threatens access to birthright citizenship, Maryland lawmakers face growing pressure to assert the state’s commitment to inclusion. One proposed response is a constitutional provision that would affirm that all persons born in Maryland are Marylanders, entitled to full protection under state law.
Read MoreMaryland Doubles Down on Electric School Bus Boondoggle
by Mark Uncapher | July 18, 2025 | Commentary | 4 |
Despite the warnings from previous failed experiments — and a damning Montgomery County Inspector...
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