Ocean City: Past, Present, Future Things are always changing and renewing. People, buildings, and towns need hard effort, just to keep from sliding backwards. We work to preserve the best, but just as often, we need to start again or tear down and build new. Sometimes we need to hold on and sometimes we need… [Read more…]
April 26, 2010
Gov. Martin O’Malley and Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown launch their 2010 re-election campaign at lunchtime Tuesday in Baltimore, then follow up with a whirlwind three-day tour of Maryland. The tour includes stops in Largo, Rockville, Waldorf, Hagerstown, Frederick, Columbia, Cambridge, Aberdeen, Catonsville and Annapolis. Full details on scheduled tour stops are at the O’Malley-Brown campaign… [Read more…]
April 8, 2010
Bob Ehrlich announced yesterday, in Rockville and Arbutus, that he’s running for governor of Maryland. Finally. This is what passes for political news in Maryland. In other news, Mr. Ehrlich, a Republican, announced that retired TV newscaster Andy Barth, a Democrat, will be Ehrlich’s press secretary. You could put that on the back page. In… [Read more…]
March 22, 2010
Anger over health care has ripped a jagged tear in the fabric of American society. I hope the damage can be mended, but the prospect is for still more vindictive rhetoric, stoking the anger and deepening the divide. Emotions on both sides ran unusually high Sunday. The Democrats were celebratory after winning, but they seemed… [Read more…]
March 21, 2010
The way forward in history is never led by the timid. Every advance in human rights is resisted by defenders of the status quo. Change through democracy is difficult and loudly opposed. Do you think the signers of the Declaration of Independence were worried about re-election? They were revolutionaries, with no guarantee of success. Benjamin… [Read more…]
March 12, 2010
Question: What does Maryland Rep. Donna Edwards, a Democrat representing Prince Georges and Montgomery Counties, have in common with Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex), Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich), Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass), and Rep. David Obey (D-Wis)? Answer: They are among the small minority, 65 members of the U.S. House of representatives,… [Read more…]
February 25, 2010
Maryland is well-represented in President Barack Obama’s health-care showdown today, live and televised from Blair House. As President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden walked across the street to the White House for the lunch break, the president paused for an impromptu one-on-one with Rep. Steny Hoyer, the congressman from Southern Maryland, who also happens… [Read more…]
February 6, 2010
As long as we’re all snowed in, we might as well use some of the time to think about our economic and political predicament in the U.S. Jon Taplin has just written a very important post entitled “Men At Work.” I guarantee it will generate 40 or more comments from Mr. Taplin’s large community of… [Read more…]
January 20, 2010
You could say the voters get exactly what they deserve. Massachusetts voters are probably embarrassed this morning to realize that they deserve Republican Sen. Scott Brown. That was my first reaction to the stunning defeat yesterday of the Democrat Martha Coakley, in the election for a successor to Sen. Ted Kennedy. But my first reaction… [Read more…]
January 19, 2010
“O’Malley plans cuts to almost everything but schools,” reads a headline in today’s Washington Post. The Maryland budget that Gov. Martin O’Malley will submit this week will include real budget cuts of $1.2 billion to $1.4 billion, Post reporters estimate, on top of $600 million in cuts made last year. Very few Maryland agencies or… [Read more…]
May 10, 2010
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