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By Len Lazarick
Len@MarylandReporter.com

Gov. Martin O’Malley on Wednesday proposed a total budget for fiscal 2014 of $37.3 billion, a $1.5 billion increase or 4.3% more than this year’s total spending, including money set aside as a surplus and rainy day fund.

None of these total spending figures – [...]]]> January 17, 2013 at 7:40 am

By Len Lazarick
Len@MarylandReporter.com

Gov. Martin O’Malley on Wednesday proposed a total budget for fiscal 2014 of $37.3 billion, a $1.5 billion increase or 4.3% more than this year’s total spending, including money set aside as a surplus and rainy day fund.

None of these total spending figures – which includes federal aid, special funds, tuition payments and fees – can be found in the official press release about the budget nor in the PowerPoint presentation O’Malley used to brief reporters about the spending plan.

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Blaine R. Young

Since 2007 Gov. Martin O’Malley and the Democrat controlled Maryland General Assembly have piled more than $1.6 billion in new tax and fee increases on the backs of Maryland taxpayers.

Therefore, taxpayers of Maryland, hold onto your hats because the Maryland legislature is about to convene for a new [...]]]> December 27, 2012

Blaine R. Young

Since 2007 Gov. Martin O’Malley and the Democrat controlled Maryland General Assembly have piled more than $1.6 billion in new tax and fee increases on the backs of Maryland taxpayers.

Therefore, taxpayers of Maryland, hold onto your hats because the Maryland legislature is about to convene for a new session. If past history is any indicator, get ready for more tax increases in 2013.

The complete control of our state government by Democrats is failing the taxpayers of Maryland. And the failed tax-and-spend policies of our so-called leaders in Annapolis are not only forcing Marylanders to flee the state, but are also to blame for the doubling of homeless families and school-aged children across the state in the last five years.

From 2000 through 2010, Maryland’s population increased nine percent. While during the same time, spending by the governor and legislature increased from $17.9 billion to $32.2 billion – an eye-popping 80 percent increase.

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Blaine R. Young

In November 2010 five Republicans were elected to the open seats on the Frederick Board of County Commissioners. I stated at the time, and continue to believe today, that 2010 was the first election in memory that was not mostly about growth and development. I still believe that.

Since [...]]]> December 13, 2012

Blaine R. Young

In November 2010 five Republicans were elected to the open seats on the Frederick Board of County Commissioners. I stated at the time, and continue to believe today, that 2010 was the first election in memory that was not mostly about growth and development. I still believe that.

Since that election, and thanks to what I perceive as serious overreaching by the O’Malley Administration in Annapolis, growth has become more of a statewide issue than ever. With PlanMaryland, the septic bill, the “rain tax” and other statewide growth control initiatives, the state is steadily, and likely permanently, inserting itself into growth issues that were once the province of local governments.

This is a step backward for transparency and local involvement in land use decisions; but as long as the liberal Democrats remain in control in Annapolis, we will continue to see policies designed to stop growth in the rural counties and force more and more of us to live in already congested urban areas.

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“We are listening to the pulse of the business community to help them come here and grow here,” Young said in a telephone interview.

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 Marta H. Mossburg

2:17 p.m. EDT, August 28, 2012

Mitt Romney‘s tax returns are a distraction. The Republican presidential candidate should release them for the sake of transparency.

But the clamor for them by Gov. Martin O’Malley in his role as head [...]]]> Maryland governor has not been a champion of openness, charitable giving

 Marta H. Mossburg

2:17 p.m. EDT, August 28, 2012

Mitt Romney‘s tax returns are a distraction. The Republican presidential candidate should release them for the sake of transparency.

But the clamor for them by Gov. Martin O’Malley in his role as head of the Democratic Governors Association says more about him and his fellow leftist ideological travelers than anything contained in the returns will say about Mr. Romney, who does not hide that he is rich.

For Mr. O’Malley, making money in the free-market system is abhorrent. In Virginia in July he said, in reference to supply-side economics, “There might not be anything illegal about any of it, but it’s certainly not a good economic theory — unless you’re a Romney.”

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By Cara R. Anthony
News-Post Staff

More than 400 movie-goers showed up at Frederick Community College on Thursday night to watch a film about illegal immigration, recently endorsed by County Commissioners’ President Blaine Young… READ MORE