Charters taking over Catholic school spaces

BY: Capital News Service
POSTED: February 20, 2012
Tags: catholic school, charters, maryland, schools, St. Mary's of the Assumption Catholic Church, Tunbridge Public Charter School

At first glance, visitors to Tunbridge Public Charter School in Baltimore might confuse it with a Catholic school. The outside of the building is adorned with stained glass windows, stone archways and a cornerstone inlaid with a cross. But on the inside, the school looks like many other public schools. “All of the religious materials [...]

Marianne D. Fishler: Include philanthropy in your estate planning 

BY: Marianne D. Fishler
POSTED: February 20, 2012
Tags: charitable giving, estate, Marianne D. Fishler, philanthropy

As spring approaches and tax season is upon us, it is a good time to think about planning strategies for 2012, including philanthropic legacy planning, also known as planned giving. Generally speaking, a planned gift is a promise made to a charitable organization that upon your death, the organization will receive a certain sum of [...]

Suns could set on Hagerstown 

BY: Maria Zilberman
POSTED: February 20, 2012
Tags: bruce quinn, Business, Hagerstown Suns, major league baseball, minicipal stadium, stadium, virginia, winchester

The majority owner of the Hagerstown Suns has signed a letter of intent to move his minor league baseball team to Winchester, Va., but citizens in that community are pushing back against the idea. The potential move comes after Major League Baseball and the Washington Nationals, with whom the Class-A Suns are affiliated, requested improvements [...]

Banning water bottles on campus harder than it looks

BY: Capital News Service
POSTED: February 20, 2012
Tags: ban, campus, college, maryland, UMCP's Residence Hall Association Sustainability Committee, universities, University of Maryland, water bottles
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Like many students at the University of Maryland, College Park, freshman Sree Sinha hopes for a better future. Sinha and other members of UMCP’s Residence Hall Association Sustainability Committee recently hosted Ban the Bottle, an event created to spread the word about environmental damages caused by plastic water bottles. The first 100 people to attend [...]

Scott Livingston: Will state retreat from open competition? 

BY: Scott Livingston
POSTED: February 20, 2012
Tags: Business, General Assembly, maryland, Maryland’s general procurement law, open competition, Scott Livingston, Taxes

The General Assembly has been asked to take a giant step backward into an era of fraud, waste of taxpayer funds and favoritism in the awarding of government contracts by repealing major features of the state’s model procurement law, including the requirement for a fair and objective bidding process. Certain state officials are now urging [...]

C. Fraser Smith: Defining moments in a legislative session 

BY: C. Fraser Smith
POSTED: February 20, 2012
Tags: C. Fraser Smith, house of delegates, legislative session, maryland, Maryland General Assembly, Sen. Ulysses Currie

There are moments every year when the Maryland General Assembly defines itself — and us. Sometimes, the entire 90 days makes us seem generous and forgiving, sometimes less so. Sometimes single actions seem to say something about who we are as people. Lawmakers are us, of course — like it or not. We’ve had two [...]

Judge clears way for referendum on tuition law

BY: marylandreporter.com
POSTED: February 20, 2012
Tags: Anne Arundel County, Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Ronald Silkworth, illegal immigrants, in-state tuition, judge, Law, tuition

Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Ronald Silkworth ruled Friday that a referendum to challenge a new law granting in-state tuition rates to illegal immigrants can go forward on this November’s ballot. In his opinion and ruling, Silkworth rejected arguments from Casa de Maryland attorneys that the new law appropriates funds and is therefore exempt [...]

Benefit corporations spark interest and questions

BY: Ben Mook
POSTED: February 20, 2012
Tags: B Corps, Baltimore, benefit corps., legislation, maryland, Maryland General Corporate Law, taharka brothers ice cream corp., Ways and Means Committee

In some ways, Taharka Brothers Ice Cream Corp. is like any small business with the goal of growing, making a profit and making it big — in its case, maybe even becoming the next Ben & Jerry’s. While operating on a far smaller scale than the famed Vermont duo, Taharka Brothers shares its social-enterprise spirit [...]

Iowa judge orders porn site to pay $4M in piracy case

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 20, 2012
Tags: case, iowa, judge, piracy, porn, U.S. District Judge Mark Bennett

IOWA CITY, Iowa — A judge has ordered the operators of a popular pornographic website to pay $4 million for copyright infringement to an Iowa-based adult film company — a ruling that should serve as a deterrent to others who pirate content online, a lawyer said Monday. U.S. District Judge Mark Bennett in Cedar Rapids [...]

Law movers: 2/21/12: Smith, ex-judge, joins McCammon 

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: February 20, 2012
Tags: law movers, lawyer, Miles & Stockbridge, On the Move, Public Defender’s Office, Stephen B. Stern, Thomas P. Smith

Smith, ex-judge, joins McCammon Thomas P. Smith, retired associate judge of Prince George’s Circuit Court, has joined The McCammon Group, a mediation, arbitration, facilitation, training, and consulting firm. Before his 17 years of judicial service on the bench, Smith worked for the Public Defender’s Office as a panel attorney and as the county attorney. He was [...]

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