Posted on Thursday, September 23, 2010

High school students must feel like Marty McFly. In the classic 1980s movie "Back to the Future," Michael J. Fox portrays a teenager who uses a time machine to travel back to 1955. During his journey, Marty sees what it was like to attend school with his parents' generation. Teenagers heading back to school this fall must also feel like they're traveling back in time - leaving the high-tech world of 2010 to return to schools that have remained largely unchanged since the 1950s.

Posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Gov. Martin O'Malley says creating jobs is his top priority. He proclaims the goal with the fervor of a religious zealot. "Maryland will lead the country, not only economically, but morally," he said during an August visit to Fisher BioServices in Wedgewood Business Park.

Posted on Thursday, September 16, 2010

Gov. Martin O'Malley's latest campaign commercial attacking his Republican opponent Robert Ehrlich for raising taxes and fees is everything his leadership is not: clear, concise and jargon-free.

Posted on Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Back in 2005 and 2006 cranes dotted the skyline of the city. Grand projects like the Ritz-Carlton Residences, Silo Point luxury condominiums and HarborView Pier Homes were in the works. Baltimore seemed on the tipping point of a Renaissance and becoming an alluring alternative for D.C. workers who didn't want to pay D.C. real estate prices.

Posted on Wednesday, September 08, 2010

If state Sen. Ulysses Currie is convicted of bribery charges, it shows the reckless extent to which he used government to benefit himself.

Posted on Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Maryland is placing a lot of faith in revenue generated by slot machines positioned in a few strategic locations around the state to plug large holes in the budgets of such services as education and law enforcement.

Posted on Monday, September 06, 2010

It's an election year and in most states, politicians from both parties are running on platforms of reducing government spending and lowering taxes. Maryland is just a little different. The liberal Maryland Health Care for All Coalition is pushing a proposal to raise the tax on liquor by 853 percent, the tax on wine by 640 percent and the tax on beer by 1,188 percent. More than 130 Maryland legislative candidates have signed a pledge to support this tax hike -- bad news for overtaxed Maryland businesses and individuals.

Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2010

The narrative coming from Annapolis reads like a weather report from early June: Sunny with months of balmy breezes ahead.