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Delegate reviews state budget
Editor: As a member of the Appropriations Committee, I have been very busy working on the state budget for the last six weeks. The Minority party members of Appropriations crafted a budget plan that relies on level funding the budget based on last year's...Tags: Personal Income, Business, Small Businesses, Executive Branch, Budgets and Budgeting
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State budget: Heading in the right direction
The House of Delegates' rewrite of next year's state budget takes some important steps toward making Maryland's finances sustainable without dipping quite so deeply into taxpayers' pockets as the Senate's plan. It's not perfect, and some details will...Tags: Personal Income, Executive Branch, Interior Policy, Pension and Welfare, Taxation
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Income tax still up in the air, gas tax dead in the water
As the final days of the 2012 legislative session wind down, it looks more and more likely that Maryland taxpayers will be forking over more to the state government next year. Who will be paying and how much, however, is still up for debate in the...Tags: Personal Income, Automotive Equipment, Harford County, Taxation, Minor League Baseball
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Assembly fails to pass tax bill, adopts 'Doomsday' budget
The Maryland General Assembly's regular 90-day session ended in disarray Monday at midnight as legislators failed to approve an income tax measure to which their leaders had agreed.
The lack of action meant that a so-called "doomsday" budget —...Tags: Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Baltimore Convention Center, Prince George's County, Values
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A tough budget
Gov. Martin O'Malley today submitted what is likely to be among the most controversial budget proposals in his two terms in office. Faced with a $1 billion gap between projected spending and revenues, and committed to a goal of finding real solutions to...Tags: Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Teachers, Government Health Care, State Income Tax
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Maryland spending growth tops in the region? Not really.
Maryland Business for Responsive Government this week slammed the state government for its profligacy based on a new report from the National Governors Association and the National Association of State Budget Officers showing Maryland has the largest...Tags: Government Debt, Executive Branch, Public Finance, National Government, Apples
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O'Malley puts tax increases on the table for 2012 legislature
Gov. Martin O'Malley signaled that tax increases could be in the cards during next year's legislative session, though he said any state action would depend on congressional budget-cutting decisions this winter. In a speech to local government leaders...Tags: Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Anne Arundel County, Local Government, Public Finance
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Higher taxes will hurt Maryland jobs
Your editorial advocating tax increases to fix Annapolis' job-killing spending problem once again misses the mark ("Tax increases should be on the table," Aug. 23). Government's insistence on uncontrolled, unsustainable spending has saddled future...Tags: Martin O'Malley, Americans for Prosperity, Budgets and Budgeting, Government, Maryland
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Vacant city houses get property tax break meant for owner-occupied homes
Property tax breaks meant to encourage homeownership have been awarded to 465 vacant houses in Baltimore, depriving the city of uncollected revenue in a difficult budget year and calling into question past promises from city officials to crack down on tax...Tags: Real Estate, Rentals, Mortgages, Foreclosures, Patterson Park
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Living in Maryland is far superior to living in Texas
Having just moved back to Maryland after 23 years in Dallas, I think I can bring some insight as to Texas' merits vs. Maryland. ("A Texas remedy for what ails Maryland jobs," June 22) First, there is the myth that Texas is cheaper to live in than other...Tags: Personal Income, Pikesville, Executive Branch, Health Insurance Cost, Taxation
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Hooked on treatment: Marylanders pay clinic millions, but diagnoses questionable
Kevin Brown knew he was hooked on crack cocaine. That was obvious each time he set off on another smoking binge. But Brown says he never imagined that he also suffered from a mental illness until he walked into Baltimore Behavioral Health Inc.
A day or...Tags: Suicide, Wales, Suicidal Behavior, Tobacco Addiction, Brain
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Drama from former Senator Theatre owner
Baltimore Sun reporterFrom the Maryland Politics blog: Meetings of the city's spending board are generally sleepy bureaucratic pageants, punctuated by the occasional protest from contractors or sopping arrival of officials caught in the rain. But Tom Kiefaber, who ran the...Tags: Station North, Belvedere Square, Towson University, Family, Mortgages
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