David Brinkley

Senate overwhelmingly approves O'Malley budget

2013-03-20 19:07:54

Gov. Martin O'Malley's budget for next year sailed through the Senate on Wednesday after an unusually brief debate, seen by some as a sign of the state's improved fiscal condition. Senators voted 42-5 to pass the $36.8 billion budget and send it to a...

Carroll County Senate Delegation hosts town hall on gun bill Feb. 26

2013-02-24 16:56:43

Carroll County's Senate delegation will hold a town hall meeting on the Firearms Safety Act (Senate Bill 281) on Tuesday, Feb. 26, at 7 p.m., at the Best Western Hotel, 451 Best Western Drive, in Westminster. County residents are invited to comment on...

Miller says state must act now to fund transportation

2013-02-20 17:14:00

Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller testified Wednesday that Maryland's shortage of funds for transportation projects is a crisis that needs to be addressed now. Appearing before the Senate Budget & Taxation Committee, Miller said his proposed...

Howard County looking for another site to build apartments for homeless

2013-02-20 03:00:00

Howard County will "most likely" drop its plans to build an apartment building for the chronically homeless at the site of the Beechcrest Mobile Home Park, in North Laurel, according to county spokesman Mark Miller. The Howard County Housing...

Delegations split on meetings, but hear similar legislative requests

2013-01-28 18:41:00

At the Carroll County Senate Delegation's public hearing last week at the County Office Building in Westminster, state Sen. Joseph Getty, a Republican who represents District 5, opened the session expressing disappointment that the County House Delegation...

State leaders urged to raise money for roads, transit

2012-12-12 15:55:00

Business leaders and county officials are urging the governor and General Assembly to increase Maryland's gas tax or find another way to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for road and transit projects — even in the face of public opposition....

Maryland budget forecast brightens

2012-11-13 18:40:10

After years of budgetary gloom and shortfalls in the billions of dollars, Maryland's fiscal forecasters offered lawmakers a brighter outlook Tuesday, saying the state's operating budget could be just $27 million in the red next fiscal year. Top fiscal...

Analysts take grim view of 'fiscal cliff'

2012-10-17 16:29:20

General Assembly analysts released estimates Wednesday painting a much grimmer picture of the impact of a continued federal budget impasse than the O'Malley administration did less than a month ago. In a presentation to legislature's fiscal committees,...

Obama and the 7 habits of highly ineffective government

2012-07-21 04:00:00

Stephen Covey, the management guru who died this week, would have had a hard time selling his books in Benjamin Franklin's America, or Abe Lincoln's. His best seller "7 Habits of Highly Effective People" would have been considered a self-evident truth,...

Baltimore has been site of many national political conventions

2012-08-02 16:08:33

With the presidential convention season upon us, political and campaign junkies will most likely find Stan Haynes' recently published book, "The First American Political Conventions: Transforming Presidential Nominations, 1832-1872," a fascinating and...

Senate passes gambling expansion bill

2012-08-10 18:46:00

The Maryland Senate passed Gov.Martin O'Malley's gambling expansion bill on a 28-14 vote Friday, sending the legislation to a more closely divided House of Delegates when the General Assembly's special session continues Monday. Approval came in the early...

Delegation says county stands to lose $1 million in special session

2012-05-06 19:40:00

Carroll County's Delegation to Annapolis said this past week that the county would be better off under the state's "doomsday" budget, and stands to lose some $1 million in state funding in a special session of the Maryland General Assembly. In a May 3...

Senator David Brinkley, left, asks a question about SB 281, the Firearms Safety Act of 2013, of floor leader Senator Brian Frosh, right.

2013-02-26 00:00:00

asks a question during a presentation by Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake and Dr.

2013-01-17 00:00:00

Officials taking part in the formal opening of the new Mount Airy College Center for Health Care Education included, from left, Howard Community College President Dr. Kate Hetherington, Frederick Community College President Dr. F.J. Talley, State Sen.

2012-10-01 00:00:00