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President Obama will visit Ellicott Dredges today Baltimore today as part of his “Middle Class Jobs Opportunity Tour.” Peter Bowe owns Ellicott Dredges and is a staunch advocate of building the Keystone Pipeline. The Keystone XL Pipeline is a Canada-Nebraska oil pipeline, which would transport oil from extracted from the Alberta tar sands.

Rain tax stirs uncertainty for business

May 16, 2013
by Mark Newgent

Thanks to a new web-based impervious surface estimator created by Howard County’s Geographic Information Services, county residents and businesses can now calculate how much Maryland’s new storm water management fees or the “rain tax” as it is known, will cost them on their July property tax bills. Approved by the General Assembly in 2012 the [...]

DPSCS has more than just a corruption problem

May 14, 2013
by Mark Newgent

Legislative audits dating back to 2010 reveal a host of managerial and accounting failures and other deficiencies at the beleaguered Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.A string of legislative audits show DPSCS has more than just a corruption problem.

Another Embarrassing Ranking

May 13, 2013
by Nick Loffer

Another independent national study exposing Maryland’s unbearable business climate has been released. CEO Magazine ranked Maryland the 9th worst business climate in the nation.  Virginia has the 7th best business climate and once again leaves Maryland in the dust in the competition for attracting job creators. Earlier this year the Tax Foundation ranked Maryland as having the 8th worst business [...]

Open data project decodes Maryland law

May 11, 2013
by JackieLynn Wellfonder

Maryland watchdog’s have a new tool for searching and digesting the Annotated Code of Maryland; however, not everyone is excited about the project’s limitations though.

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