All posts tagged budget

Second in a series on state salaries that began Tuesday.  By Meg Tully Meg@MarylandReporter.com Thirteen Maryland correctional officers indicted last month in a corruption case that has outraged legislators and the public

By Meg Tully Meg@MarylandReporter.com Top 10 State Salaries 1. Randy Edsall Head Football Coach, University of Maryland, $2,011,720 Maryland Reporter’s third annual report on state salaries  found that 5,663 state employees pulled in

By Glynis Kazanjian   Glynis@MarylandReporter.com   Eagle Building in Rockville houses the Family Justice Center on the top floor. Montgomery County government may soon be paying close to $1 million a year in rent

Maryland election officials are planning to hire contractors to help with the transition to paper ballots. By Glynis Kazanjian Glynis@MarylandReporter.com State election officials are planning to spend up to $1.2 million to

By Len Lazarick Len@MarylandReporter.com   Voters next year will be asked to approve a constitutional amendment creating a  “lockbox” to prevent raids on the Transportation Trust Fund for other purposes, but Republican

By Len Lazarick Len@MarylandReporter.com House of Delegates 2013 A $36.9 billion state budget for fiscal 2014 easily passed the House of Delegates and state Senate Friday, with less Republican opposition than last

By Ilana Kowarski Ilana@MarylandReporter.com Lack of psychiatric hospital beds is one of the problems identified by mental health advocates (Photo by StudioTempura/Flickr) There has been a great deal of partisan bickering in

The women’s softball team survived, while men’s baseball was being cut. Who got to Gov. O’Malley about the Towson University baseball program? Governors typically don’t meddle in university sports programs, but

By Len Lazarick Len@MarylandReporter.com Sen. E.J. Pipkin debates gas tax bill on Senate floor. Just 25 days after it was introduced, the Maryland Senate enacted the first gas tax hike in 21