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 21, 2010
Maryland On My Mind has never done this before, but today I’m posting an e-mail in it’s entirety from TrueMajority, which is associated with MoveOn.org. But first, I would like to propose a simplified health-care bill, something along the lines of: This act extends Medicare to all U.S citizens. The U.S. courts shall impose penalties… [Read more…]
February 20, 2010
Maryland On My Mind takes a break from our wall-to-wall winter weather coverage to ponder our economic predicament. It’s so rare that I find a graph I can actually understand. Here’s something interesting, courtesy of PIMCO’s Bill Gross: “The most vulnerable countries in 2010 are shown in PIMCO’s chart “The Ring of Fire.” These red… [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…]
February 4, 2010
I think the second dip of the double-dip recession began this week. It’s hard to expect much, if any recovery in 2010 or 2011. Just my opinion. The worldwide stock sell-off might be only the beginning of another crisis. The financial story was Greece on Wednesday, Spain and Portugal on Thursday. It could be anywhere… [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 14, 2010
Imagine Peace Imagine how much more effectively the U.S. could help the people of Haiti, if we were not bogged down in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Imagine if we could re-channel our energy and money from war to peace. Imagine how much suffering we could relieve in Haiti. And in pockets of poverty and… [Read more…]
January 13, 2010
Today is the first day of the 2010 legislative session for the Maryland General Assembly. The state of Maryland, along with most of its counties and local governments, is at a point of financial reckoning. Maryland is not alone. Almost every other state is in the same predicament, or worse. It is possible that California… [Read more…]
January 10, 2010
Greetings, faithful readers. Today marks a turning point for Maryland On My Mind. We’re moving from WordPress.com (which has hosted the blog since its start in October 2007) to a new, easier Web address, http://www.MarylandOnMyMind.com. Of course Maryland On My Mind is still using the great open-source WordPress blogging software. Please update your bookmarks, blog… [Read more…]
January 4, 2010
You never know when you might experience an Epiphany about the American economy. St. Luke’s Catholic Church in Ocean City, Maryland, was closed for renovations last winter. Sunday, I went to Mass at St. Luke’s for the first time since it reopened. The reason: St. Luke’s has an 11:30 a.m. Mass on Sundays, the last… [Read more…]
February 25, 2010
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