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Md. agrees to 50-year lease of state port facilities

Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley announced Friday an agreement to give the nation's largest port operator control of the state-owned portion of the Port of Baltimore for the next 50 years in exchange for the company's promise to invest hundreds of millions ...

From AARON C. DAVIS, The Washington Post,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Martin O'Malley,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Michael E. Busch

Maryland board's authority is disputed as it makes cuts

In the months since Maryland's legislature adjourned, Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) has persuaded two state officials to slash hundreds of millions of dollars from the budget -- more than the General Assembly cut during its session. On Wednesday, their ...

From AARON C. DAVIS, The Washington Post,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Martin O'Malley,  Nancy K. Kopp,  U.S. Republican Party

House health bill includes Medicaid relief for states

Wedged in the House health-care bill is $23.5 billion that looks a lot more like new federal stimulus spending than anything to do with national health-care reform. The barely debated pot of money would allow Congress to continue pumping billions in new ...

From AARON C. DAVIS, The Washington Post,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Ford Motor Company

Fisette reelected in Arlington; Fairfax backs school bonds

Jay Fisette (D) won another term on the Arlington County Board. Get county-by-county vote totals for the Virginia governor's race, compare results with past elections and see how party lines have shifted through the years. Comments that include ...

From AARON C. DAVIS, The Washington Post,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Green Party,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party

O'Malley outlines effect of federal stimulus on jobs

Maryland has created or saved 4,462 jobs with federal stimulus money so far, after spending 6 percent of its share of the funds, Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) said Thursday. The governor, an ardent supporter of stimulus efforts, said the "direct" ...

From AARON C. DAVIS, The Washington Post,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Martin O'Malley,  Barack Obama,  White House,  U.S. Congress

Shrinking Wages Will Help Make Md. Budget Gap Twice as Big

Shrinking paychecks for some of Maryland's wealthiest residents, along with new data showing wages falling across the state, will mean smaller state income-tax payments headed to Annapolis next spring and a budget problem twice the size of what ...

From AARON C. DAVIS, The Washington Post,  18 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Martin O'Malley,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party

Md. Approves an Additional $454 Million in Budget Cuts

To close its latest budget shortfall, Maryland will shut down a state-run psychiatric hospital, nearly eliminate money for county road projects, slash funding for cancer research, reduce reimbursements for health-care workers and facilities caring for ...

From AARON C. DAVIS, The Washington Post,  26 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Martin O'Malley,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Department of Health

Financial Sway of Md. Panel A Rarity

Hundreds of bureaucrats, lobbyists and journalists will squeeze into Gov. Martin O'Malley's stately reception room this morning in Annapolis, as they do on many Wednesdays. They'll stand shoulder to shoulder for hours, like subjects in a king's court, ...

From AARON C. DAVIS, The Washington Post,  25 Aug 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Martin O'Malley,  Nancy K. Kopp

Crowd Ire Whets Cardin's Mettle

Comfortable at home in his favorite chair, Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin was watching a cooking show Sunday night, until he flipped to CNN and glimpsed his future: a man in a raucous crowd screaming at Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) about health-care ...

From AARON C. DAVIS, The Washington Post,  14 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Benjamin L. Cardin,  Arlen Specter

Raucous Crowd Greets Cardin at Health-Care Town Hall in Hagerstown

President Obama's call for civility in the health-care debate fell flat Wednesday in Maryland's first congressional town hall meeting after his plea. An increasingly rowdy crowd of 450 packed a community college auditorium in Hagerstown and repeatedly ...

From AARON C. DAVIS, The Washington Post,  12 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Benjamin L. Cardin,  John Campbell,  U.S. Democratic Party,  John McCain

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