Earlier this week Northrop Grumman announced that it will move their corporate headquarters from Los Angeles to the Washington metropolitan area. Because aerospace giant Lockheed Martin is already headquartered in Bethesda, our state might have a strong claim on snagging the corporate giant.
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Posted on Jan 9 2010 by Mark
Because Congressional Democrats are considering dramatically expanding Medicaid, the public health care program for the poor, it is worth looking at how the program is doing in Maryland. Before expecting the government to take on more tasks, we should see how it is doing with its current responsibilities.
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Posted on Dec 19 2009 by Mark
Virtually all of the members of the Obama Administration have never faced the uncertainly of meeting a payroll, collecting overdue customer bills or struggling to get business financing. Their job creation experience is limited to government appropriations or grants. The closest they have been to a small business is picking up their dry cleaning.
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Posted on Dec 5 2009 by Mark
Out of Touch County Council Obsessed with Social Agenda: Incomes in Montgomery County are stagnant, unemployment is rising, housing prices have declined and property taxes have continued to rise. Yet instead of addressing our financial crisis, our County Council continues to treat their personal politically correct social agenda as the county's most pressing priority. The Council is badly out of touch with the concerns of county residents.
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Posted on Nov 21 2009 by Mark
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Montgomery County and all of Maryland lost a very dear and stalwart friend on November 3. Up until just 10 days before her death from cancer, Jean Brown Cryor was still actively engaged in her role as a member of the Montgomery County Planning Board. This reality reflects the high level of energy and optimism Jean brought to everything she did.
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Posted on Nov 7 2009 by Mark
Montgomery County Republican Party Chairman Mark Uncapher called on County Police Chief Thomas Manger and County Executive Ike Leggett to permit officers access to Law Enforcement Support Center (LESC) databases provided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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Posted on Oct 26 2009 by Mark
Message from the Chairman:New Policy on Illegal Alien Criminals Makes No Sense When you look at the numbers, O'Malley's budget claims don't add up...By Herb McMillan
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Posted on Oct 24 2009 by Mark
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Posted on Sep 19 2009 by Mark
After this past week it certainly should be crystal clear that the primary objective of advocates for a government-run health care option is the transition of the US healthcare system into a single payer government health system.
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Posted on Aug 22 2009 by Mark
The Baltimore Examiner quotes Maryland Delegate Saqib Ali (D-LD 39) as tweeting on his Facebook page as saying: "If they drop the Public Option, then the terrorists will have won."
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Posted on Aug 17 2009 by Mark
Remarkably Rep. Chris Van Hollen has not yet scheduled a town hall meeting on health care or any other issue during the August recess. Understandably his constituents want to question him on where he stands on this important issue. For example, has Van Hollen now given up on his single-payer goal or does he regard the "Public Option" as the best way to reach a single-payer universal government system?
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Posted on Aug 8 2009 by Mark
Members of the Montgomery County Republican Central Committee.
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Posted on Aug 5 2009 by Mark
Every year each State Senator gives away $138,000 in higher education scholarship funds and each delegate gives out $34,000. The criteria about who get these scholarships is very loose, so as a result the schlarships tend to go to the children of the politically connected. In total, these legislative scholarships cost the State of Maryland twelve million dollars per year.
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Posted on Jul 25 2009 by Mark
Another issue citizens may be looking at is the dysfunction of agencies such as the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission. There are lingering questions about the role played by the newly appointed WSSC head in controlling the message to the public about lead contamination in the water during 2001-04.
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Posted on Jul 4 2009 by Mark
This week four Republicans, U.S. Senators Richard Burr of North Carolina and Tom Coburn, M.D. of Oklahoma and U.S. Representatives Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Devin Nunes of California introduced health care reform legislation that promotes universal access to quality, affordable health care, without adding billions of dollars in new debt or taxes. Their proposal uses market-oriented conservative principles by giving patients more decision-making power with their health care dollars.
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Posted on Jun 23 2009 by Moshe
The Republican energy approach could not provide a clearer contrast to the energy ideas of liberal Democrats such as Waxman and Markey on "Cap And Trade & Tax.
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Posted on Jun 20 2009 by Mark
According to VMT advocates, the problem with the gasoline tax is that it is not going up fast enough because of political resistance. They note that inflation has eroded purchasing power of the gas tax proceeds since the last increases. Maryland's 23.5 cent per gallon, which is largest source of revenue for the state's Transportation Trust Fund, has not been changed since 1992. The VMT advocates also worry that better gas mileage will further reduce the money available to government to spend.
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Posted on Jun 6 2009 by Mark
This week four Republicans, U.S. Senators Richard Burr of North Carolina and Tom Coburn, M.D. of Oklahoma and U.S. Representatives Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Devin Nunes of California introduced health care reform legislation that promotes universal access to quality, affordable health care, without adding billions of dollars in new debt or taxes. Their proposal uses market-oriented conservative principles by giving patients more decision-making power with their health care dollars.
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Posted on May 23 2009 by Mark
The Montgomery County budget has grown from $2.1 billion in 1998 to $4.3 billion in 2008, a 7.4% compound annual growth rate, yet County residents' personal incomes, including population growth, has grown at a slower 5.7% per year.
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Posted on Apr 11 2009 by Mark
MCGOP CONVENTION!