From AFSCME Maryland.
Budget and Taxes
756 Articles
756
M
Maryland’s Request for Stimulus Money
4 Min Read
4 Min Read
Following is a letter from Governor Martin O’Malley to Congressman Chris Van Hollen requesting federal stimulus aid. The Governor sent identical letters to the rest of the state’s Congressional delegation.State…
T
Thursday Night Smackdown!
5 Min Read
5 Min Read
Last night, business and labor squared off on the CARR bill in one of the more entertaining bouts of the state hearing season. But there is a lot more to…
M
Maryland and Obama’s Stimulus Package
5 Min Read
5 Min Read
By Sharon Dooley. The message posted by Adam from the Obama Saturday message could hold great promise for Montgomery County’s transportation dilemma. The recent series about Council member Marc Elrich’s…
2 Min Read
By Marc Korman. In some of the darkest days of the Great Depression, our legislators were not passing jobs programs or crafting fiscal stimulus packages, but were busy repealing the…
U
Uncle Ike Thumps Big Daddy (Updated)
3 Min Read
3 Min Read
Looking Senate President Mike Miller directly in the eye, County Executive Ike Leggett issued a challenge to him and the county’s statehouse delegation this morning: do not cut county aid…
I
Is Now the Time for the CARR Bill?
5 Min Read
5 Min Read
Last February, I wrote in favor of a property tax bill proposed by Delegate Al Carr (D-18), commonly known as the Commercial Assessment Rate Review (CARR) bill. The CARR bill…
1 Min Read
MCEA, SEIU Local 500 and the Montgomery County Association of Administrative and Supervisory Personnel (MCAASP) have reached a tentative deal with the school system on contract savings. Here are the…
C
Crisis in Transportation, Part Three
2 Min Read
2 Min Read
In Part Two, we described Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski’s aggressive infrastructure bill to create jobs, stimulate the state’s economy and generate long-run returns for Oregon. So what about Maryland?No one…
C
Crisis in Transportation, Part Two
2 Min Read
2 Min Read
A flatlining economy. Intolerable and worsening traffic congestion. Falling transportation revenues. Maryland has all of these problems. So does Oregon. The difference is that Oregon’s political leadership is doing something…