Posted on Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Maryland government tries to hide lots of information from residents. It does not want people to know about government employee salaries and benefits, loans made to well-connected businesses and many grants to politically in-vogue organizations.

Posted on Wednesday, July 28, 2010

The $787 billion federal stimulus package was supposed to create and save jobs to offset the impact of the "Great Recession." But first quarter 2010 data on the stimulus show that many companies in Maryland received staggering sums and yet created, by their own account, zero jobs in the state. The data also show thousands of grants awarded to state organizations, listing only their names and the amount of money they received.

Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2010

One of the first tenets of Alcoholics Anonymous is the need for addicts to recognize problem drinking. That allows them to stop and to begin the recovery process.Would that Maryland officials have reached that point in recognizing the state's spending problem. Instead, they celebrate, like last week when discredited credit ratings agencies reaffirmed the state's AAA rating, the highest possible. This will allow Maryland to borrow money cheaply and delay hard budget choices by sinking further into debt.

Posted on Tuesday, July 20, 2010

A new "living wage" will make Baltimore City no more livable than stilettos will make Sen. Barbara Mikulski a forward for the WNBA.

Posted on Friday, July 16, 2010

Mary D. Kane has no qualms about backing former Gov. Robert L Ehrlich Jr. when it comes to the Purple Line.

Posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2010

The dean of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law last week called for states to borrow from the Treasury during recessions.

Posted on Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn recently told the hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that he did not know who the 23 percent of Americans were who trusted Congress, referring to a poll. I wonder what the numbers are for the Maryland General Assembly, whose members are incredibly adept at pushing tough decisions to future years and blaming others for their own poor choices.

Posted on Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake promised a cleaner city government upon taking over from her disgraced predecessor in February.