Eye On Annapolis

A Snapshot Of Our State

Posted on 22. Aug, 2010 at 9:53 am by Dr. Ron Elfenbein, Maryland State Senate Candidate - District 30.

Our unemployment insurance rates tripled.  Our corporate income tax is 8.25 percent, the highest rate in our region.  This tax increase continues to chase more and more jobs and businesses out of Maryland.  The O’Malley administration decreased state funding for tourism.  Personal income tax is 9 percent; over 3 percent higher than our neighbors in [...]

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Senate Candidate Booze Charged With Theft, Drug Possession

Posted on 07. Aug, 2010 at 10:53 am by John Frenaye.

On Friday, The No BS Zone, broke the story that Pasadena resident and Democrat State Senate Candidate(District 31), John Edward Booze, had been charged for maliciously stealing other candidates election signs. When we went to verify this, electronic court records indicate that yesterday, he was charged with three separate counts of theft and one count [...]

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Ehrlich Introduces Kane (VIDEO)

Posted on 30. Jun, 2010 at 10:35 pm by John Frenaye.

This is the introduction Bob Ehrlich made of Mary Kane at 10:00pm tonight.

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And Ehrlich’s Running Mate Is….

Posted on 30. Jun, 2010 at 10:00 pm by EOA Staff.

Former Governor Bob Ehrlich has been in the national news lately for the way he has embraced social media to rally the troops for a campaign that has yet to officially start.  While there has been speculation about his running mate, no one knows for sure. Until now! The official announcement did not come at [...]

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Carl Snowden Arrested For Third DUI Offense

Posted on 08. Jun, 2010 at 10:42 pm by EOA Staff.

Carl Snowden is in the news again today. It seems that he was picked up for driving while intoxicated early this morning on his way back from Baltimore where he only had “one drink” according to The Baltimore Sun. Snowden is a former Annapolis City Alderman, the current Chairman of the Housing Authority of the [...]

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A Memorial Day Message From Dr. Ron Elfenbein

Posted on 31. May, 2010 at 1:03 am by EOA Staff.

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Politics Get Dirty In Maryland

Posted on 20. May, 2010 at 10:45 am by EOA Staff.

O’Malley And Ehrlich Slug It Out He’s soliciting state employees one whined. He’s using a SSA computer the other whined. Welcome to Maryland’s 2010 Gubernatorial Election. Politics is not pretty. It never has been.  Here we are, very early in the primary season and the two (realistically unchallenged in a primary) gubernatorial candidates are tossing [...]

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Fire Forces Legislators To The Street

Posted on 09. Apr, 2010 at 10:39 am by EOA Staff.

Governor, Speaker And Others Evacuated UPDATE 8:38pm 4/9/10: Other outlets including The Capital are reporting that this was not a fire at all but a result of the heat being put on instead of the air conditioning.  With an afternoon deadline, The Capital was able to contact both O’Briens and the Annapolis Fire Department spokesman [...]

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Ehrlich Or O’Malley

Posted on 31. Mar, 2010 at 9:41 am by EOA Staff.

It is election day right now. Pull the lever. Who are you going to vote for?

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OPINION: DUI Licence Plates

Posted on 30. Jan, 2010 at 12:10 pm by The Observer.

Like That Will Solve The Problem One of the bills being considered by our illustrious legislators this year is to issue special bright yellow license plates for over 2000 strong habitual offenders.  Yes, you read that right, there are over 2000 drivers in Maryland right now who have had three or more convictions for drunken [...]

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Sex Bill To Be Discussed

Posted on 29. Jan, 2010 at 12:50 pm by John Frenaye.

Maryland Legislators Discuss Sex In Divorce Montgomery County Delegate Luiz Simmons has introduced legislation (HB 336) to allow divorcing couples to waive the current physical separation requirement as long as they don’t have sex. The reason behind this is that many couples are finding it difficult to financially divorce and support two households. This legislation [...]

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O’Malley Appoints Miller To Bench

Posted on 28. Jan, 2010 at 4:27 pm by John Frenaye.

Senate President’s Son Scores Seat And who said the “good ol’ boy network” was a thing of the past?  The Washington Post is reporting that Democratic Governor Martin O’Malley has just appointed Democratic Senate President Thomas V. “Mike” Miller Jr.’s son to the Anne Arundel County District Court Bench. This was Miller’s second grab at [...]

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What Do You Think Of This?

Posted on 22. Jan, 2010 at 2:54 pm by John Frenaye.

Bill Would Require Closed Captioning In Bars An article this morning on MarylandReporter.com caught our eye.  We are not morphing into a site that will follow every legislative bill (there are plenty of good ones that do that and MarylandReporter.com is one of them); but this jumped out. While certainly we can all agree on [...]

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O’Malley Speaks

Posted on 22. Jan, 2010 at 10:54 am by John Frenaye.

Video Interview With Washington Post In an interview with The Washington Post‘s Sarah Lovenheim, Gov. Martin O’Malley shares his plans for easing health-care reform costs and reversing unemployment trends in Maryland.

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For Sale: One Political Office

Posted on 21. Jan, 2010 at 1:01 pm by John Frenaye.

Two Candidates Release Fundraising Stats OK, so Conan O’Brien has tried to sell The Tonight Show on Craigslist. It was a joke. We get it. It was funny. But what about politics? Are offices bought and sold like a commodity? In a Utopian world, our elected leaders would be elected by their honesty, integrity, and [...]

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A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

Posted on 15. Jan, 2010 at 10:35 pm by John Frenaye.

A Few hundred Or A Few Thousand? On Tuesday, a “Tea Party” rally was organized at Lawyer’s Mall in Annapolis. Our local paper led off the story with “Hundreds of conservative Tea Party activists swooped into Annapolis last night on the first day of the 2010 legislative session.”  During the “Tea Party” in April 2009, [...]

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Tea Party In Annapolis

Posted on 05. Jan, 2010 at 2:40 pm by EOA Staff.

Americans For Prosperity To Protest At State House The Americans For Prosperity are bringing their fiscal protests to Annapolis on January 13, 2010. According to their website, the organization’s mission is committed to educating citizens about economic policy and mobilizing those citizens as advocates in the public policy process. AFP is an organization of grassroots [...]

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