Editorial: Upping the ante for tech transfer
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: February 2, 2012
Tags: Baltimore, economic growth, Editorial, Education, Gov. Martin O’Malley, initiative, Johns Hopkins, legislation, maryland, morgan state, O'Malley, Patrick J. Hogan, tech transfer, Technology, university, University of Maryland, University System of Maryland
Comments: 1
The issue is called technology transfer, and it has not been one of Maryland’s strengths.
For all of the state’s success in attracting research dollars to an array of universities and institutions with world-class experts and facilities, it has not matched that success in spinning off commercial ventures from that research to generate jobs and economic [...]
Editorial: Financial disclosure needs major overhaul
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: January 26, 2012
Tags: Annapolis, Common Cause Maryland, Court of Appeals Chief Judge Robert M. Bell, Editorial, financial disclosure, form, General Assembly, legislative committee, maryland, Special Committee on Ethics Reform, State Ethics Commission
Comments: 1
Maryland’s toothless, outdated financial disclosure law needs a major overhaul, and it needs it now.
To begin with, our state is the only state that requires citizens to show up in person to view financial disclosure reports.
This means that anyone from Accident to Ocean City must go to the office of the State Ethics Commission in [...]
Editorial: Going after tax giveaways
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: January 19, 2012
Tags: bullion, businesses, coal, coin show, coins, daily record, dana m. stein, General Assembly, gov. martin o'malley, greg leroy, legislature, lobbyists, mayor stephanie rawlings-blake, nicholas sohr, tax breaks, Taxes, whitman coin and collectibles expo
Buried beneath a pile of tax increases and spending cuts in Gov. Martin O’Malley’s proposed budget that are already attracting lightning bolts from all sides is a small but important victory for Maryland taxpayers — if the General Assembly has the courage to go through with it.
The governor wants to kill the sales tax exemption [...]
Editorial: Welcome back; it’s time to act
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: January 12, 2012
Tags: 2012, Annapolis, Editorial, gas tax, General Assembly, gov. o'malley, legislative session, maryland, sales tax, The Blue Ribbon Commission on Maryland Transportation Funding
The Maryland General Assembly is encamped in Annapolis once again for its annual 90-day session, primed to do the people’s business. At least we hope so.
Little was accomplished in the 2011 session. That was unfortunate, because there was much to be done, but it also was not unusual for the first year in a four-year [...]
Editorial: Now hereby be it resolved …
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: January 5, 2012
Tags: baltimore city council, Court of Appeals, democratic governors association, east baltimore development inc., Editorial, General Assembly, Gov. Martin O’Malley, maryland, mayor stephanie rawlings-blake
In keeping with the tradition of the season, we extend best wishes for 2012 to one and all, and we offer suggested New Year’s resolutions to a select few:
Gov. Martin O’Malley: Do a better job of “moving Maryland forward” by focusing more on Maryland. Yes, we know you’re chairman of the Democratic Governors Association and [...]
Editorial: Tax giveaways need scrutiny
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: December 29, 2011
Tags: Bureau of Revenue Estimates, Business, Editorial, Good Jobs First, maryland, scrutiny, tax giveaways, taxpayers
Comments: 1
Maryland taxpayers are subsidizing about $3.7 billion worth of tax giveaways every year for businesses and industries.
At least that’s what state budget analysts think. But no one is really sure because the state isn’t sure how much 157 of these giveaways cost.
Whatever they cost, are they worth it? Well, nobody really knows that either because [...]
Editorial: ‘No change’ is no disclosure
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: December 22, 2011
Tags: court, Court of Appeals Judge Clayton Greene Jr., disclosure, Editorial, maryland, maryland judiciary, no change, Robert M. Bell
Thirty-six years ago, the Maryland Judiciary treated itself to a financial disclosure shortcut. Rather than filling out all those pesky boxes on their annual Statements of Financial Interest, judges gave themselves the option of listing only what had changed from the previous filing.
For those judges who take it to its literal extreme, the “no change” [...]
Editorial: Alliance, not merger of University of Maryland campuses
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: December 15, 2011
Tags: Baltimore, campuses, college park, Education, merger, Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr., University of Maryland, University System of Maryland Board of Regents
The University System of Maryland Board of Regents made the right call in endorsing a strategic alliance between the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of Maryland, Baltimore rather than a merger of the two campuses.
We had been waiting to hear a convincing argument for merger ever since Senate President Thomas V. Mike [...]
Editorial: Send the right message on Currie
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: December 8, 2011
Tags: corruption, Editorial, General Assembly, Prince George's County, Sen. Ulysses Currie, shoppers food warehouse, trial, verdict
Comments: 3
State Sen. Ulysses Currie, D-Prince George’s, managed to escape conviction on federal corruption charges by a jury of his peers after his lawyers paraded a string of witnesses into court who testified that Mr. Currie simply wasn’t bright enough to have pulled off such a scheme.
The criminal justice system has spoken, and puzzling though the [...]
Editorial: National Harbor or Fantasyland?
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: December 1, 2011
Tags: County Executive Rushern L. Baker III, disney, Editorial, fantasyland, Gaylord National Resort, Milton V. Peterson, National Harbor, Prince George's County
Comments: 1
National Harbor, the uber-development along the shores of the Potomac River in Prince George’s County, took a big hit with the artfully timed day-after-Thanksgiving announcement by Walt Disney Co. that it had scrapped plans to build a 500-room resort hotel there.
Disney was a big “get” for National Harbor, whose developer, Milton V. Peterson, had personally [...]
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