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A Hot Time Begins The 2011 session of the Maryland General Assembly begins today. It will continue until April 11th. There will be a lot going on and, as with the young women in the image above, they will make it seem your are seeing more than you actually are. Here’s a brief synopsis of [...]
Well, the election is over, the victors are celebrating and I have some time to blog again. There are about 40,000,000 other bloggers out there analyzing what the election means and dissecting the voting, so I’ll skip that and go directly to discussing the problems facing those who are newly elected. I’ll start right here in Worcester [...] We Support Our Schools The College Board has ranked Maryland NUMBER ONE in the percentage of high school seniors that take and pass the advanced placement tests. That news should come as no surprise to those who have watched the state sharply increase the amount of funding for schools (and the taxpayers who are paying [...] The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that Maryland's unemployment rate rose in September to 4.6% from a rate of 4.5% in August. More than 138,000 Marylanders are looking for work but unable to find it – an increase of about 33% since the beginning of the year. Yet, the unemployment rate in Maryland is still well [...] The Maryland state budget is facing a shortfall and it's not just pennies, nickels and dimes, either. According to the latest estimates, revenue in this fiscal year will be $432 million below projections and next year could see a $1 billion shortfall. The shortfall reflects economic conditions in Maryland that are less rosy than originally [...] Several newspapers and TV stations, including the Daily Times here on the Shore, recently carried an article discussing the increased use of ‘performance pay’ in Maryland schools. According to the article, Prince George’s County schools are instituting a series of ‘performance bonuses’ for teachers while Harford and Anne Arundel schools offer modest performance bonuses to [...] Bernie Hayden, over at Maryland On My Mind, writes a nice post about jobs and education questioning whether our education system is preparing people for the jobs that are available. There are plenty of careers where there are far more jobs than qualified people to fill them. Two stand out here in Maryland – education and [...] The Milken Institute recently released their 2008 State Technology and Science Index recently. The Index ranks states in their ability to succeed in the technology-driven information age. Maryland was ranked number two, just behind Masschusetts. The author of the study pointed out that states that invest in their science and technology assets are creating [...] Average incomes on the Shore and in Western Maryland are much lower than in the Baltimore/Washington corridor and poverty rates are, by and large, higher. What, if anything, can or ought to be done about that? Not surprisingly, I have some suggestions. I've written often here about the relationship between education and income. Maryland, as a [...] In the last post we talked about the wide discrepancies in wage rates in Maryland. The majority of Marylanders, who live in the densely-populated areas around Baltimore and Washington, earn wages that are considerably higher than average while those who live in the less-populated areas of Western Maryland and the Eastern Shore receive much lower than average [...] |
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