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As Baltimore’s Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake delivers a preliminary budget for the city today, the focus seems to be on efficiency. Changes to the city’s health budget, cuts to the liquor board, “cloud computing” for city offices and a laundry list of other initiatives are being introduced in an effort to bolster Baltimore City’s year […]
Starting today, the MD Comptroller’s office has kicked off Shop Maryland Week, during which qualifying apparel and footwear $100 or less are exempt from the Maryland 6% sales tax. The event is expected to stimulate local retail business and offer an opportunity to pass minor savings onto those attempting to clothe their families. {…}
Now that the complaints regarding Baltimore City’s budget horrors are behind us, I’d like to explore some of the very realistic, very awesome and totally doable strategies that can be implemented almost immediately (as immediately as government can function), and will serve to aid in the patching of our enormous deficit, while paving the way […]
This is a two part rant; Part 1 is mostly complaining. If you don’t like constructive complaining, just wait for part 2! A few weeks ago after the announcement of the mayor’s proposal to levy multiple fees and fine hikes city wide in an effort to close the most catastrophic budget gap the city has […]
Baltimore’s City Council faces one of the most apocalyptic budget crises in …ever, to the tune of a $121 million shortfall. $50 million of the projected gap is expected to be paid for via a slew of fees and increased revenue grabs, many of which absolutely boggle the mind. But I say the proposed bottle […]
Well it would seem the city council’s long standing tradition of trying to tax literally anything and everything under the guise of environmental or safety concerns has come to a head this week, as the now nearly two year old issue (1, 2, 3) of the city’s efforts to ban/tax plastic bag usage at grocery […]