On Monday, President Barrack Obama named Montgomery County’s own Tom Perez to be the next U.S. Secretary of Labor. In going over his qualifications, the President spoke glowingly about Tom Perez’s ability as a consensus builder and that he has worked with a wide variety of people including CEOs, labor leaders and at the county, […]
Recently the issue of transparency in the General Assembly has come up a lot. The biggest issue is the fact that the House of Delegates, with the permission from Attorney General Doug Gansler, have been holding behind closed doors hearings on the gun legislation. They argue that it doesn’t count because they didn’t invite a […]
It’s no secret that Maryland envrionmentalists hate the poultry industry in Maryland. They blame chicken farms up and down the Eastern Shore for polluting the Chesapeake Bay, all to make massive corporate profits for Frank Perdue’s family. A stinging loss for the environmentalists occured recently when the University of Maryland’s Environmental Law Clinic spent taxpayer […]
We’ve already discussed that pretty much everything Governor Martin O’Malley does is geared toward his presidential campaign, which he has already kicked off with visits to New Hampshire and Iowa. In order to appeal to the base of the Democratic Primary voters throughout the nation, he has taken a tactic of pushing the most liberal […]
I listened to Martin O’Malley’s State of the State speech. It was cute. Crafted more and more each year to sound like a presidential State of the Union rather than an actual assessment on where the State stands and where it is going. Of course, that is the point. State of the State speeches, because […]
