Category: State & National Politics
OPINION: DUI Licence Plates
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 [...]
Sex Bill To Be Discussed
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 [...]
O’Malley Appoints Miller To Bench
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 [...]
What Do You Think Of This?
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 [...]
O’Malley Speaks
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.
For Sale: One Political Office
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 [...]
A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
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, [...]
Tea Party In Annapolis
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 [...]
A Libertarian For Governor?
Gaztañaga To Run In 2010 Citing a need to build on 2008 performance, a Libertarian has thrown her hat into the Gubernatorial ring. According to MarylandReporter.com, Susan Gaztañaga and Doug O’Neill have been selected by the Central Committee to represent the party in a challenge to Martin O’Malley and the GOP nominee. Third party candidates [...]
How Many More Children Need To Die?
Child Protection Laws Must Be Enhanced A 12 year old girl’s body was discovered on Christmas Day. She died at the hands of a man who is a twice convicted sexual predator. There is certainly a lot of blame to be placed, but the first finger needs to be pointed at the ridiculous liberal judicial [...]
2010 Legislative Preview
Senate President Mike Miller And Speaker Michael E. Busch To Speak The Annapolis Forum is presenting a forum on December 1, 2009 to offer a preview to the 2010 legislative session. On Tuesday, December 1, 2009, the elected leaders of Maryland’s Senate and House of Delegates will address the issues that will be the focus [...]
Annapolis And Baltimore Love Love
CORRECTION: Per US Senator Ben Cardin’s office, Jon Cardin is his nephew, not his son. We regret the error Marriage Proposals On Taxpayer’s Money Becoming Popular Back in June, Annapolis City police staged a fake arrest outside Middleton Tavern to allow a man to propose to his girlfriend. While it was a unique proposal indeed, [...]
Buh Bye To Free Parking At BWI
BWI-Thurgood Marshall Airport Nixes Free Half Hour Gone are the days of running into the airport for a quick ticket exchange, picking up a loved one, or helping granny in with her bags. Last week, BWI quietly began charging customers to park in their formerly free lot. Yes, BWI is now charging $2 per half [...]
Healthcare Reform
Congress Is Exempt While not directly related to Anne Arundel County, the current healthcare reform is an issue that impacts everyone. Congressman John Fleming represents the 4th district of Louisiana. As he reviewed the plans before the House of Representatives, he noticed that Senators and Members of Congress were curiously exempt from the new reform. [...]
Maryland Comptroller Paints Bleak Picture
Franchot Sends Wake Up Call To Government House And O’Malley Moments ago, Comptroller Peter Franchot released Maryland’s June revenue figures in an open letter to Governor Martin O’Malley, Speaker Michael Busch and Senate President Mike Miller. While these numbers pertain to the State in general, they have a very real impact on Anne Arundel County. [...]
Adolf Hitler Lives
Much Ado About Nothing? Last week, local blogger Paul Foer poked a hornet’s nest when he criticized the Republican Women of Anne Arundel County (RWAAC) for an opinionated letter comparing the tactics of President Obama to Adolf Hitler. Were the words inflammatory? Sure they were. Did they strike a chord? Absolutely! Now, the very organization [...]
Obama, Hitler & Annapolis Politics
Left Leaning Blog Takes Anne Arundel Republican WomenTo Task While Eye On Annapolis is by definition NOT a political site, we do opine on politics and (all too often) ineptitude in government. Over the past few days, local blogger Paul Foer (Publisher of Annapolis Capital Punishment) has taken the Republican Women of Anne Arundel County [...]
BGE Turning Off 70,000
BGE Begins Their Turn Off Blitz Baltimore Gas And Electric will be busy for the next few weeks turning off power to the 74,000 Marylanders who have fallen behind on their bills. As a result of regulation wrangling, BGE was required to contact “at risk” accounts and make arrangements to get the past due bills [...]
A Sneak Play By E-ZPass
Did The Maryland Transportation Authority Pull A Fast One? You have to love a transparent government. Back in March, all the buzz was about the monthly maintenance fee of $1.50 to have the benefit of the E-ZPass transponder. Other states do have some fees associated with it’s use, but none as high as that allowed [...]
An Education Alternative In Maryland?
Online Education In Maryland’s Future Emerging Minds of Maryland, (EMoM) is a relatively new grassroots organization originating in Baltimore County by five families who participated in a Baltimore County Public School pilot program in the 2008-09 academic year. The pilot school was a virtual school comprised of students with brick and mortar public school and [...]
Maryland It’s Time To Step Up
Bullying & Gangs Need To Be Addressed Now It is a shame that the senseless death of Christopher Jones is what it took to get the attention of the County and State government. The schools have sent out “Bully Surveys” several times over the past years, however, it seems that whatever results came from them [...]
