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O’Malley takes aim at Ehrlich with anti-oil campaign ad
Let the mud (or oil?) slinging begin. If you haven’t heard it by now, click here to listen to a Gov. Martin O’Malley campaign ad bashing his Republican competitor, former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich, for...
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Are CEOs cut out for public office?
It seems that every election cycle a high-profile former business executive announces plans to run for public office. Government needs to be run like a business, they say, with greater accountability...
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Sheila Dixon on vision, blogging and Baltimore’s civic energy
Unlike the last time reporters saw her in public, former Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon arrived with no entourage for an interview at The Daily Record on Wednesday morning. The city’s first elected...
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Remembering William Donald Schaefer
Much has been written about William Donald Schaefer since his death Monday. Here are some stories and blog posts on Baltimore’s former mayor and Maryland’s former governor and comptroller that, if you...
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Top 5: ‘I’ve gotten used to the idea. I don’t like it.’
Two big personalities on Maryland’s business landscape — William Donald Schaefer and Edwin F. Hale Sr. — dominated the news this week, and that’s reflected in the top 5 staff-written stories by The...
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The property tax shuffle
One of the top questions in this year’s mayoral race is how to lower the city’s residential property tax rate, the highest in Maryland at $2.268 per $100 of assessed value. All of the candidates have a...
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The man who wins gay marriage bans
In an Associated Press feature on Frank Schubert, a political consultant who is directing campaigns to win bans on gay marriage at the polls in four states, including Maryland, Schubert says: “Five...
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No delivery of pizza question?
Pizza Hut offered a pizza a week for 30 years or more than $15,000 to anyone who would pose the pizza-centric question “Sausage or pepperoni?” during Tuesday’s presidential debate. But the promotion...
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Payroll tax hike worries small business
After months of incessant droning about ‘the fiscal cliff this, the fiscal cliff that,’ the phrase alone is almost enough to make one just go ahead and jump off. Because a long-term deal still eludes...
View ArticleMedChi ready for another chock-full session
Last week, the Maryland State Medical Society released an agenda packed with sure-to-sizzle (though largely familiar) issues it intends to bring up during the General Assembly’s 2014 session, which...
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