Eye Opener: Transportation secretary steps down

Transportation Secretary Beverley Swaim-Staley

Sunday marked the last day as transportation secretary for Beverley Swaim-Staley, the first woman to hold the position.

Swaim-Staley oversaw the reopening of BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport after the Sept. 11 attacks and a successful run at the Port of Baltimore brought, aided by a public-private partnership with Ports America Chesapeake.

“You get to a point where you want to do something different,” Swaim-Staley told The Baltimore Sun.

Here’s a few other headlines this Monday morning:

• The Daily Record reports on more ad dollars entering into the National Harbor casino debate.
• The Washington Post reports on Gov. Martin O’Malley’s defense of the Affordable Care Act on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
• The Associated Press reports that the income tax hike enacted by the General Assembly took effect Sunday.