Maryland Business

Department of Labor Licensing and Regulation Secretary Tom Perez is making progress in his path to become part of President Barack Obama’s administration, according to the Blog of the Legal Times. Perez, the nominee to handle civil rights as an assistant attorney general, has been in a holding pattern for two weeks since he cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee by a broad margin.

Senate Republicans have sought to address their concerns about his past political activity, including a stint on the board of directors of the immigrant advocacy group Casa de Maryland. Apparently, some of those concerns have been resolved through a few closed door meetings this week.

Other fun tidbits from the blogs:

An imbroglio has broken out over a plan to tax more online sales in North Carolina, with several Amazon-linked company affiliates (sites that refer sales to the internet retail behemoth) potentially losing their company links. The state wants to use those relationships to tax Amazon’s sales. Now, states can only tax companies that are located there or have major brick-and-mortar operations.

This idea came up during the end of the General Assembly session this year, but died quietly. I wouldn’t be surprised to see it come up again, but this doesn’t look good.

On that note, you probably missed what appears to be one of the most absurd online sales of all time.

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