By Marc Korman. Last time we looked at three of the five items on my list of things to watch for in 2010. Here are the last two.4. How are…
Budget and Taxes
Buried in a Washington Post article about the budget is this momentous passage: One way to lighten the state’s burden is to shift the rising cost of teacher pensions to…
Maintenance of Effort is a Smart Law
By Eric Luedtke. As a teacher, I’ve had the opportunity to work with some extraordinary children. But some of their parents have been just as extraordinary. Year after year, I’ve…
The Great Country Club Tax Break
Country clubs all over Maryland benefit from a special property tax break that saves them millions of dollars every year. Here’s how it works.Decades ago, the General Assembly passed legislation…
This chart from the last fiscal update says it all. The state is scheduled to run annual structural budget deficits of more than $2 billion into the term of the…
Weast Blasts Elrich
In a wide-ranging interview with the Montgomery County Sentinel, MCPS Superintendent Jerry Weast singled out County Council Member Marc Elrich, a former fifth grade public school teacher, for special scorn….
And so it has begun. MCPS Superintendent Jerry Weast has fired the first shot in what may be his last and greatest battle: the fight over the Fiscal Year 2011…
Weast: “Devastating Impact on the Children”
Has the MoCo Economy Hit Bottom?
Every business cycle has an inflection point, a moment when up turns down or down turns up. Economists have great trouble identifying them contemporaneously, often finding them after many months…