(Annapolis, MD) – Harford County State Senator Barry Glassman, R-35, has rolled out his own proposal to bring relief to Harford County and Maryland homeowners during the current economic downturn. Glassman found as home values continue to plummet his constituents have increased their appeals of local property tax assessments. Many of these assessments were done at the peak of the housing boom over the last three years and inflated the value of residential properties.
Glassman’s proposal calls on the State Department of Assessments and Taxation to freeze current re-assessments and begin to back track and re-adjust jurisdictions completed during the past five years.
“This is a way we can bring some mortgage relief to homeowners through lower escrow payments for local property taxes and to senior citizens who own their homes and pay their local property taxes directly.” stated Glassman.
For example, the MD Route 40 corridor in Harford ...Continue Reading
Tags: annapolis, barry glassman, economy, general assembly, mortgages, taxes
Howard Wayne Norman, Jr., a Bel Air attorney and longtime GOP booster, was selected unanimously Saturday afternoon by the Harford County Republican Central Committee – a group in which he is a member – to fill the soon-to-be-vacant District 35A seat in the Maryland House of Delegates.
Norman’s nomination will be forwarded to Gov. Martin O’Malley upon the swearing in of current District 35A representative Del. Barry Glassman to the state senate seat of Bob Hooper. Hooper is expected to resign from his seat on Dec. 31 because of health issues. With Hooper’s resignation, Glassman has been nominated to ascend to his senate seat and now Norman has been picked to fill Glassman’s seat in the northern Harford County District 35A.
The Republican Central Committee convened a special session at 9 a.m. Saturday morning in the Harford County Council chambers in Bel Air during which 9 candidates for the District 35A seat ...Continue Reading
Tags: annapolis, barry glassman, bob hooper, dagger, dagger press, fallston, harford county, house of delegates, howard wayne norman, martin o'malley, north harford, republican central committee
So a bar owner, an attorney, a couple of real estate developers, a farmer, a firefighter and the politically-active wife of a prominent elected official all want the same job – it sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but the real joke is that one of these people will be handed an enormous amount of power and control over the northern end of Harford County.
The Harford County Republican Central Committee released Friday the list of eight candidates who are vying to fill the District 35A seat in the House of Delegates, which is set to be vacated Dec. 31 when Del. Barry Glassman moves into the seat held by the resigning state senator Bob Hooper.
Hooper, who is resigning for health reasons, handpicked Glassman to be his successor and no other candidates submitted names challenging Glassman’s appointment by Gov. Martin O’Malley to become a senator. Unlike Hooper, however, Glassman ...Continue Reading
Tags: barry glassman, bob hooper, dagger, dagger press, gallion, general assembly, geppi, harford county, lambie, mcfaul, mottley, norman, north harford, reilly, republican central committee, rigdon, swilka
