I’ve often said that politicians and the general public tend not to focus on transportation infrastructure issues until they become a crisis. Last week, the issue of transportation percolated to the very top of the nation’s chain of command when ...

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Many fiscal challenges await Maryland’s newly elected governor and members of the General Assembly when they take office in January 2011. Addressing the state’s structural deficit and budgeting for transportation, education and health care have gained substantial attention from the ...

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When the issue of Maryland’s competitiveness as a place to locate or expand a business comes up, as it did last week at the Maryland Economic Development Association’s annual meeting in Cambridge, the discussion invariably gets around to how our ...

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The Maryland General Assembly adjourned this week after, for the first time in recent memory, passing a budget that calls for reduced spending from not only the general fund but from all state funds. For the second year in a ...

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Historically, Maryland’s economy and culture have been shaped by transportation. Maryland has traditionally capitalized on its mid-Atlantic location and deepwater inland access to the high seas. This is where the American railroad was born in the 1800s to efficiently move ...

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Maryland’s business and elected leaders are looking to convert our state’s celebrated strengths in research and our highly educated work force into expanding science and technology business sectors that will be major drivers of our future economy. Maryland ranks second ...

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As a group, state lawmakers are generally lukewarm to the idea of aggressive tax-credit programs and other incentives to nurture business growth in Maryland and to lure new business here. Instead, they point to Maryland’s many existing strengths as a ...

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Members of the Maryland Business Tax Reform Commission spent the last five months gaining overviews of the state’s tax structure and the business taxes that are a part of it. Now commission members have begun tackling the hard part — ...

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