Editorial: Whistling past the graveyard
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 24, 2012
Tags: Business, Court of Appeals, doomsday budget, Editorial, Federal Transit Administration, gas tax, General Assembly, gov. martin o'malley, House Speaker Michael E. Busch, maryland, Mr. Miller, Red Line, Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr., special session, Transit, Transportation Secretary Beverly Swaim-Staley
Maryland legislators returned to their homes and their full-time occupations last week, no doubt congratulating themselves for taking care of business at their special session that they should have taken care during the 90 days of the regular session. Now, the governor says we will have a second special session to deal with expanded casino [...]
Editorial: Big shoes to fill for police commissioner’s replacement
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 17, 2012
Tags: Baltimore, corruption, crime, david simon, department of homeland security, frederick h. bealefeld III, HBO, maryland, mayor stephanie rawlings-blake, murder, police commissioner, retiring, series, the wire
Baltimore is losing its police commissioner. And what a loss it will be. Frederick H. Bealefeld III is retiring Aug. 1. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said the commissioner, who is 49 and has been with the department for 31 years, had decided that this was a good time for him and his family to make the [...]
Editorial: Super deal for Superblock
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 10, 2012
Tags: baltimore development corp., city council, david h. hillman, developer, Editorial, mayor stephanie rawlings-blake, pilot, superblock, Taxes
Let’s see now — what kind of a deal will it take to break a 10-year logjam and finally build something on the Superblock site in Baltimore? For starters, let’s give the developers another extension — eight months this time. The last extension was for six months, but time flies when you’re lining up a [...]
Editorial: Raze the Mechanic
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 3, 2012
Tags: Baltimore, baltimore planning commission, charles center, Commission for Historical & Architectural Preservation, maryland, morris a. mechanic theatre
A local developer has come forth with a bold plan to re-energize the heart of the city by building a $150 million residential and retail complex at Baltimore and Charles streets. The only thing standing in the way — literally — is the 45-year-old Morris A. Mechanic Theatre, which has been closed since 2004. To [...]
Editorial: Hopkins medical milestone
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: April 26, 2012
Tags: Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children’s Center, Editorial, Health Care, hopkins, maryland, medical, Michael Bloomberg, milestone, Sheikh Zayed Tower
May 1 will mark a date of enduring significance in the history of health care in Maryland with the official opening to the public of the new clinical towers at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The $1.1 billion facility includes 1.6 million square feet outfitted with the latest medical equipment and technology, not to mention more than [...]
Editorial: Hrabowski accolades are well-deserved
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: April 26, 2012
Tags: Barack Obama, Editorial, freeman hrabowski, people of the year, president, school, time magazine, umbc
Many more people in this country and even around the world now know what those of us in Maryland already knew: Freeman A. Hrabowski III is a world-class leader. His being named one of the world’s 100 most influential people by TIME Magazine, on a list ranging from Barack Obama to Xi Jinping to Christine [...]
Editorial: Hit the reset button
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: April 19, 2012
Tags: Baltimore, baltimore development corp., BDC, committee, economic development, Editorial, M.J. “Jay” Brodie, maryland, mayor stephanie rawlings-blake, Mayor’s Cabinet on Economic Development, transition report
With last month’s announcement of the impending retirement of M. J. “Jay” Brodie as president of the Baltimore Development Corp., the city is now embarked on a search for his successor. Mr. Brodie, 75, is stepping down after 16 years as head of Baltimore’s quasi-public economic development agency. His accomplishments are many. But 16 years [...]
Editorial: A failure of leadership
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: April 12, 2012
Tags: Editorial, failure, General Assembly, gov. o'malley, house of delegates, leadership, maryland, O'Malley, Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr., speaker michael e. busch, special session
When the train wreck known as the 2012 session of the Maryland General Assembly came to an ignominious end at midnight Monday, there was plenty of blame to go around. Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr., D-Calvert and Prince George’s, badly overplayed his hand in his single-minded quest to plop a billion-dollar casino into [...]
Editorial: Will we pay the price of inaction?
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: April 5, 2012
Tags: Editorial, funding, General Assembly, Greater Baltimore Committee’s Donald C. Fry, maryland, transportation, trip
Comments: 1
This week’s report on the sorry state of transportation funding in Maryland landed on the desks of state legislators with a resounding thud as the General Assembly entered the final days of its annual 90-day session with much work left undone. For those legislators who keep looking the other way and repeating their mantra — [...]
Editorial: UMMS, St. Joseph a good match
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: March 29, 2012
Tags: catholic, Editorial, merger, purchase, sale, st joseph, St. Joseph Medical Center, umms, University of Maryland Medical System
Comments: 1
The prospective match between the University of Maryland Medical System and St. Joseph Medical Center appears to be a good one for many reasons. UMMS can bring financial stability, credibility, a network of facilities and physicians, economies of scale and an academic component to St. Joseph, which has been struggling with legal and financial problems [...]
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