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The Maryland General Assembly meets in its regular annual session beginning January 9, 2008. They have a lot on their plate this year and it will be interesting to watch. One of the most divisive issues is sure to be same sex marriage. The Maryland Court of Appeals punted the issue back to the legislature [...] Well, I’m back from a visit to the Washington, D.C. area to see family and friends. On the drive home we say lots of signs for Andy Harris and E.J. Pipkin and a few for Wayne Gilchrest. It looks like the competition for the Republican nomination for the First Congressional District is going hot [...] When the legislature meets in Annapolis, they, and the governor, will have some a clear choice. The Chesapeake Bay, in my view Maryland’s greatest natural resource, is dying. We can do something about it, or we can just let it die. Evidence that the Bay is dying is everywhere. The ‘dead zone’ an area with [...] In my last post I talked about the need for urgent action in improving wastewater treatment in Maryland and gave one idea about how to deal with it. In this post, I’ll talk about stormwater management, transportation and agriculture. Last year, the legislature passed the Stormwater Management Act of 2007. This legislation goes a [...] So are we going to have words or action to save the Bay? So far, it looks like more words. On December 4, the Chesapeake Bay Executive Council, composed of the Governors of Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania and the Mayor of Washington to review the progress in saving the Bay. In 2000, they signed [...] There’s lots of news in the Maryland First Congressional District primary race. Mostly on the Republican side. First, longshot candidate John Leo Walter announced, just before the withdrawal deadline, that he was dropping out of the race and endorsing fellow conservative and State Senator Andy Harris. That will help cement Andy Harris as the most [...] study One of the doomsday predictions made by some anti-tax advocates during the recent special session of the Maryland legislature was that, in the face of new or increased taxes, many Marylanders would pick up and move to lower tax states. Indeed, that may yet happen, but I’ve heard virtually nothing about that since the [...] Environmental action can work. Osprey were threatened with extinction at one time because the DDT in the environment weakened the shells of their eggs causing them to break before they were able to hatch. With the banning of DDT in the early 1970s, osprey and many other birds of prey, including the bald eagle, [...] Agriculture is also a significant contributor to Bay pollution, though not as big as some might think. Agriculture contributes to the pollution of the Bay in several ways. Runoff from fields carries excess nutrients into waterways and then into the Bay. Some pesticides find their way into the Bay damaging marine life. Animal waste [...] This is the third in our series on how we can each take individual responsibility for the consequences of our actions and, in the process, help save the Chesapeake Bay. Traditionally, we have thought of air pollution and water pollution as two separate things. We now, however, have a better understanding of the link between [...] |
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