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Bi-Partisan bill would block raids on dedicated funds by O'Malley

Submitted by Editor on January 27, 2012

Legislators Want to Lock Up Dedicated Funds

By DAVE NYCZEPIR

Capital News Service

               ANNAPOLIS - A bipartisan group of delegates wants to amend Maryland's constitution to prohibit the transfer of dedicated funds to the General Fund, except in a state of emergency, as they look for ways to stave off potential tax increases.

Women legislators want to dump statute of Marylander from Congress's halls to replace it with one honoring Tubman

Submitted by Editor on January 26, 2012

Maryland Women's Caucus Returns With New Tubman Legislation

By KELSEY MILLER
Capital News Service

               ANNAPOLIS - After a failed attempt last year to put a Harriet Tubman statue in Congress' Statuary Hall, the Maryland women's caucus is trying again to get the state native what they feel is her due representation in national history.

More corruption on Obama funding of green energy con-men

Submitted by Editor on January 26, 2012

ALG responds to Ener1 bankruptcy

 

Media and class envy Marxists get it wrong about tax rates

Submitted by Editor on January 25, 2012

From the Center for Vision and Values 
When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney casually estimated that his effective tax rate is around 15 percent, progressives immediately pounced on the issue. To this ideological minority with its Ahab-like obsession on class warfare, a rich American paying an effective tax rate of “only” 15 percent is, a priori, a scandal of the first order.

Build the third reactor says community in Calvert

Submitted by Editor on January 25, 2012

New Nuclear Reactor Will Bring Jobs to Southern Maryland, Supporters Say

By DREW GROSSMAN

Capital News Service

               SOLOMONS - Calvert County business owners and nuclear energy advocates testified Wednesday in support of a plan to build a third reactor at Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, saying it would help the local economy.

FOP Lodge # 7 endorses Fritz assistant to unseat Judge Densford

Submitted by Editor on January 25, 2012

January 25, 2012

O'Malley hid the truth about the state's budget deficit during his speech

Submitted by Editor on January 25, 2012

From the Frederick News Post
Show me the numbers

by Marta Mossburg

For hours last Wednesday Gov. Martin O'Malley didn't tell residents the price of the state budget he had just released.

Amazingly, he also tried to deny that the budget had gone up from the previous year, saying he had cut $7.5 billion from state government during his administration. "You can parse the numbers all you like, you won't find an administration that has contained spending like mine," Mr. O'Malley said at his news conference on the subject.

Hoyer's longtime cohort in Congress was under investigation for corrupt use of earmarks prior to his death

Submitted by Editor on January 24, 2012

From Roll Call
Last week’s release of FBI documents finally put in writing what nobody had ever said on the record: The FBI suspected that former Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) and lobbyists close to him were running a scheme to funnel earmarks to sham companies and nonprofits to benefit the lawmaker’s friends and former staffers.