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Why is O'Malley silent on NSA spying?

Marta H. Mossburg — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:24:00 -0400

Marta Mossburg says the governor owes Marylanders answers about where he stands on massive surveillance programs

As it turns out, we are "one" Maryland, as Gov. Martin O'Malley likes to say — one Maryland under surveillance by thousands of people who live and work in this state.

Maryland's Fair Share Act is misnamed

Marta H. Mossburg — Tue, 4 Jun 2013 12:51:00 -0400

Forcing nonmembers to pay union dues has increased AFSCME's bottom line but not improved services

Maryland's Fair Share Act is to fair what Liberace is to understated.

Good intentions don't create jobs

Marta H. Mossburg — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:44:00 -0400

Marta Mossburg says Baltimore City Council's local hiring bill is wrong-headed

Baltimore City Council members confused caring about unemployment with abating it by giving preliminary approval to a local hire law last week.

After Gosnell, Maryland should reconsider late-term abortion

Marta H. Mossburg — Tue, 7 May 2013 13:37:00 -0400

Marta Mossburg says Philadelphia case is a window into the horrors of a nightmarish procedure

To those who support "choice" at all costs: Read the grand jury report on Kermit Gosnell.

Forcing landlords to accept vouchers won't help the poor

Marta H. Mossburg — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:32:00 -0400

Marta Mossburg writes that Section 8 coercion is a solution that doesn't understand the problem

Human nature frequently disproves theories. Conventional wisdom, for example, says that open office space plans with workers grouped like cattle encourage creativity and collaboration. But study after study shows that people are more inventive, productive and healthy with more privacy.

Pit bull compromise fails, trial lawyers win

Marta H. Mossburg — Tue, 9 Apr 2013 14:17:00 -0400

Marta Mossburg says legislators who helped kill dog bite bill stand to benefit from its demise

People say dogs look like their owners. That may not be true, but they certainly look and act like we want them to, as breeds are a construct of generations of culling for certain aesthetic and other traits, including hunting ability, intelligence and, in some cases, viciousness.

Religion and the Ravens: Faith fuels Baltimore's 'mighty men'

Marta H. Mossburg — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:53:00 -0400

Marta Mossburg says a core of Christian values undergirded the Ravens' Super Bowl quest

The media cover Ray Lewis' faith and his role as spiritual leader of the Ravens frequently.

Democrats' hypocrisy on voter access

Marta H. Mossburg — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:23:00 -0500

Marta Mossburg says O'Malley and others show their double standard by trying to put up barriers to referendums

Many Maryland politicians spritz on Eau de Hypocrisy at least occasionally. But Gov. Martin O'Malley and fellow Democrats bathed in it with their support for the inaccurately labeled Referendum Integrity Act, an effort to make it harder for citizens to petition a law to referendum.

On state pensions, 'Everyone else is doing it' is no excuse

Marta H. Mossburg — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:41:48 -0500

Marta Mossburg says Maryland should stop overestimating the rate of return to its retiree pension fund

In 1931, economist John Maynard Keynes lamented, "A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him."

In E-ZPass crackdown, punishment doesn't fit the crime

Marta H. Mossburg — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:52:00 -0500

Marta Mossburg says Maryland is quick to act against scofflaws but doesn't hold itself to the same standard

The O'Malley administration is all for enforcing infractions on state residents — but holds itself to an entirely less stringent moral and legal standard.