O’Malley trade trip heads for China, South Korea, Vietnam 

Governors log a lot of frequent flyer miles on foreign trade missions. What’s the point?

Posted: 6:37 pm Thu, May 26, 2011
By Nicholas Sohr
Daily Record Business Writer

Mike Violette has visited China since 1999, nurturing relationships in the country that makes most of the electronics his Gaithersburg-based laboratory tests for compliance with U.S. regulations. The president of Washington Laboratories Ltd. will return Tuesday as part of a 10-day trade mission led by Gov. Martin O’Malley, who Violette hopes will lend his business some ...