Published on Friday, February 03, 2012

There's a coordinated push by Gov. Martin O'Malley to raise Maryland's gasoline tax by applying the state's sales tax of 6 percent to fuel purchases. That means that, at current gas prices, the state tax would rise from 23.5 cents per gallon to 44.5 cents - an increase of 89 percent. This would make Maryland's gas tax the ninth-highest in the nation.

Published on Thursday, February 02, 2012

Jay Hancock gives our recently-released Policy Report on the proposed gas tax increase a plug on his blog.

Published on Wednesday, February 01, 2012

Gov. Martin O’Malley called for tax hikes Wednesday in his State of the State address, urging lawmakers to weigh those “tough choices, the costs and the trade-offs” against the jobs he hopes to support through increased spending on infrastructure.

Published on Wednesday, January 25, 2012

For hours last Wednesday Gov. Martin O'Malley didn't tell residents the price of the state budget he had just released.

Published on Wednesday, January 25, 2012

In August 2010, 19-year-old Daniel Schatz ran his pickup into the back of a tractor-trailer truck on Interstate 44 near Gray Summit, Mo. The collision set off a chain-reaction accident with two school buses, killing Schatz and a 15-year-old bus passenger, Jessica Brinker. Investigators later discovered that Schatz had been exchanging text messages on his cell phone while he drove, sending six and receiving five in the 11 minutes prior to the crash.