Publication Date: Friday, November 30, 2012

There was a great piece in The Wall Street Journal Tuesday on why the U.S. government can’t tax itself out of debt.

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Publication Date: Thursday, November 29, 2012

On a ten-year timeline, somewhere around 65-70% of small businesses will fail. There are many reasons for this, the largest ones being simple incompetence and inexperience. It’s just a sad fact of life: getting rich is hard. If it was easy, we’d all have done it already. Still, many Americans take the plunge each and every year. In 2010 alone, some 565,000 businesses were started in the US – each founder entertaining their own dream of making it through those tenuous first few years and.

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Publication Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Maryland has great schools, we are told. And yet, as Marta Mossburg has pointed out, quite a few of the graduates from these “great schools” need remedial education. While the state has some good schools, it also has areas that are plagued by poorly performing schools. The state needs to allow more innovation for education. Focusing on schools that can tailor their education to meet student needs is a far better idea for improving education in Maryland than throwing more money at our school system.

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Publication Date: Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Our president thinks that we need to do something to make it faster and easier for people to vote. And I agree with him, wholeheartedly. Unlike Governor O’Malley, who thinks that it’s too easy for concerned citizens to bring issues up for referendum and actually find a voice in their own government, some of us still seem to think that “government of the people, by the people, and for the people” is a good idea.

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Publication Date: Monday, November 26, 2012

There’s a tired cliché that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. I find that hackneyed phrase irritating most of the time, but it’s the only appropriate way to describe this state’s budget process under Governor O’Malley. We are soon to enter another legislative session and another round of the state’s budget process. And, like every other year during Gov. O’Malley’s term, we’ll hear about the state’s structural deficit. And like every other year during his term, we’ll hear calls to raise taxes. But this approach has been tried again and again to solve this state’s budget problems. So why are we still grappling with this persistent deficit?

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