From Friends of Harford: On June 21st, Harford County Council passed a state required financial assurance plan which described how the County will accomplish the stormwater runoff control required by Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) by the end of the County’s pollution permit, also called the EPA Clean Water Act Permit. This requirement is […]
Harford Campaign for Liberty April 28: Early Master Plan Review; Smart Growth; Ill Effects of the Rain Tax; Trans-Pacific Partnership
From Harford Campaign for Liberty: April 28, 2015 7 pm – 9 pm Knights of Columbus Hall 23 Newport Drive Forest Hill, MD 21050 The recent announcement regarding the early review of the county’s Master Plan makes this month’s meeting more important than ever. Tom DeWeese, nationally recognized property rights expert, has been traveling state […]
Del. Szeliga: “It’s Days Like This That Make Me Proud to be an Independent Thinker and a Republican in Annapolis”
From Del. Kathy Szeliga: Rain Tax Repeal is Coming Over Senate Passes a Rain Tax Repeal The Senate passed a version of the Rain Tax repeal this week, SB 863 It passed unanimously. SB 863 has been assigned to my committee, Environment & Transportation. This committee killed Gov. Hogan’s bill strictly along party lines. SB […]
Del. Szeliga: Raining Taxes in Maryland; Heroin Epidemic in Every Community
From Del. Kathy Szeliga: A Top 100 Girl! Very Humbled to Be Selected This week, I was selected as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women! The Daily Record has selected Maryland’s Top 100 Women for the last 20 years. The awards will be presented on May 4th. Click Here to read the entire list of […]
Harford Campaign for Liberty Feb. 24: Institute on the Constitution; Tax Assessment Problems; Rain Tax Repeal Refusal
From Harford Campaign for Liberty February 24, 2015 7 pm – 9 pm Knights of Columbus Hall 23 Newport Drive Forest Hill, MD. 21050 DON’T BE LEFT OUT IN THE COLD This month promises another fantastic lineup of speakers. Our meetings are on the must attend list for all Harford County conservatives and patriots. Institute […]
Prost: “Rain Tax” is Easy to Demonize, Harder to Help People Understand Reason for Fee and Risk if It is Reduced or Repealed
From Alison Prost, Maryland Executive Director, Chesapeake Bay Foundation: The so-called “rain tax” is easy to demonize. It makes a convenient political target (“Governor Larry Hogan Introduces Legislation to Repeal ‘Rain Tax,’” Feb. 12). What’s harder is to help people understand the reason for the fee, and the risk to Baltimore and Harford counties of […]
Del. Szeliga: Fracking Causes STDs?; Rain, Rain, Go Away; Baltimore County Public School Survey
From Del. Kathy Szeliga: News From Annapolis! The 435th session of the Maryland General Assembly convened on January 14, 2015. We are 1/3rd of the way through our 90 day legislative session. With more than 60 new members of the House of Delegates, we are off to a slow start. The pace is picking up […]
Maryland Watch: Why Repealing the Rain Tax Doesn’t Mean Much, But Means Everything
Governor Larry Hogan followed through on his campaign promise to try to get rid of the rain tax, and it’ll probably pass, but in the end, it won’t actually do much. The “rain tax” itself was the state getting in between a Federal Environmental Protection Agency and any place that operates a stormwater management system […]