Washington County secretly offers $100,000 to lure firm

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: April 27, 2012
Tags: Business, county commissioners, cushman & wakefield, expenditures, hotel-motel tax receipts, incentives, washington county

HAGERSTOWN — Washington County is offering an unidentified company $100,000 to establish a local operation. The Hagerstown Herald-Mail reported Friday that the incentive was disclosed in an annual report of expenditures from local hotel-motel tax receipts. The funds are listed as having been committed but not yet spent. A spokeswoman says the county commissioners approved [...]

Md. tax giveaways divert billions with largely unknown impact

BY: Nicholas Sohr
POSTED: December 15, 2011
Tags: Baltimore, Del. Bill Frick, Department of Business and Economic Development, expenditures, Government, maryland, Maryland Budget and Tax Policy Institute, tax code, tax credits

Robert L. Higgins plucked four coins from a refrigerator-size safe in the basement of the Baltimore Convention Center and fanned out a small fortune in his hands. While the face value of the coins would be just enough to buy a sandwich — a cheap one at that — Higgins priced the coins and their [...]

Defense Secretary Gates says spending cuts loom

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 24, 2011
Tags: american enterprise institute, cold war, cuts, defense, expenditures, pentagon, president obama, robert gates, secretary

WASHINGTON — Defense spending is about to enter a steep decline that may force the Pentagon to abandon some military missions, shrink the armed forces and perhaps limit America’s role in the world, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday. In one of his final policy speeches before retiring next month, Gates said he has been [...]