By Adam Pagnucco. The county council unanimously passed its straw vote on the operating and capital budgets today, with Council Members Andrew Friedson, Evan Glass, Kate Stewart and Marilyn Balcombe…
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Fact Checking Elrich, Part One
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By Adam Pagnucco. Despite getting 98 percent of his FY24 recommended budget funded by the county council, County Executive Marc Elrich went on the attack last week. He criticized the…
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Mink Criticizes Council on Transparency
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By Adam Pagnucco. Council Member Kristin Mink has released a statement explaining her votes on the FY24 budget and the property tax increase. I have previously printed her thoughts on…
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A Good Day for Transparency
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By Adam Pagnucco. Last month, I wrote a column decrying the county council’s recent practice of picking planning board members behind closed doors and noting that they were once picked…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Liquor. Leaks. Termination. Resignations. A whistleblower complaint. A pair of power grab bills. A fecal fracas at a state legislative hearing. Not since the clamor in Clarksburg…
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Delegate Heather Mizeur (D-20) has launched an online petition in support of her Open Government Act. We have previously said that the bill “would enable free public access to the…
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Delegate Heather Mizeur (D-20) has amassed 75 House co-sponsors and 30 Senate co-sponsors, a majority in each chamber, for her sweeping Maryland Open Government Act. The bill, which is lead-sponsored…
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Senate Democrats Announce Legislative Agenda
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The Senate Democratic Caucus has released its legislative agenda for 2010 in a press release that we reprint below. The agenda includes Delegate Kirill Reznik’s (D-39) bill preventing employers from…
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Busch: Committee Votes will be Posted Online
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Speaker of the House Mike Busch has directed the House Office of Information systems to post committee votes on the General Assembly website prior to the arrival of bills on…
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