Public Finance

Hearing to be held Wednesday for Baltimore County schools capital budget

2013-05-21 10:35:00

A meeting scheduled for Wednesday evening will be the first opportunity for county residents to provide input and suggestions on the Baltimore County Public Schools capital budget for fiscal year 2015. "This is what they would like to see, whether it be...

Race-by-race results from Preakness Day

2013-05-18 17:17:00

Race 1: Jockey Joel Rosario rode Aussi Austin to victory in the first of 13 races on Saturday at Pimlico Race Course. Bake Shop took second and Pretension finished third in the 1 1/16-mile dirt race. The winner finished in 1:45.23. Bake Shop and...

Coppin to break ground on $80 million science center

2013-05-02 15:55:47

Coppin State University is moving forward with an $80 million Science and Technology Center that it hopes will boost sagging enrollment despite concerns that the West Baltimore school will not have enough money to operate the building. A ceremonial...

Harford's Craig unveils 2014 budget with no tax increases, no raises

2013-04-16 11:26:53

Harford County Executive David Craig is proposing a 2014 general fund budget that is 1.3 percent, or $6.3 million, larger than the 2013 budget, among the smallest increases of the eight budgets Craig has presented during his tenure. The new budget does...

Obama wrong to seek limits on tax-exempt bonds

2013-04-15 03:00:00

Local government is truly where the rubber meets the road. As Baltimore County executive, I proudly oversaw capital projects ranging from the restoration of the Randallstown Library after a fire to the expansion of Cromwell Valley Park. We rebuilt Essex...

Harford council reviews school budget request, hears pleas for more money

2013-04-25 17:09:09

Harford County Public Schools officials appealed to the members of the Harford County Council Thursday morning to fully fund their request for $241 million from the county for their Fiscal Year 2014 operating budget. Harford County Executive David R....

Obama's balanced plan to create jobs, cut deficit

2013-04-15 05:00:00

President Barack Obama's Fiscal Year 2014 budget is a concrete plan to create jobs and cut the deficit. We do not need to choose between these two priorities. The president's balanced, compromise plan proves we can do both. The guiding principle...

Council members pleased schools are focus of Ulman budget

2013-04-02 04:00:00

Howard County Executive Ken Ulman unveiled his fiscal 2014 capital budget proposal Monday, a $442.4 million spending program that includes the most funding for public school projects since Ulman took office in 2006. After being briefed on the capital...

Rawlings-Blake's budget includes new taxes, raises

2013-03-20 18:16:00

Baltimore residents would have to pay more to grab a cab. They would be hit with an additional fee in their water bills. And they would have 300 fewer firefighters on the payroll. But they also would have lower property taxes, better recreation centers...

Our biggest problem is not deficits

2013-03-20 06:16:00

"Our biggest problems over the next 10 years are not deficits," President Barack Obama told House Republicans last week, according to those who attended the meeting. The president needs to deliver the same message to the public, loudly and clearly....

Obama's economic policies will destroy the country

2013-03-18 12:45:00

Only among The Sun's editors and the Democratic Party is the 3.5 percent annual growth in the federal budget proposed by Republican Rep. Paul Ryan considered "egregious" ("Unbalanced budgeting," March 14). Representative Ryan's plan to spend "only"...

Unbalanced budgeting

2013-03-13 13:51:10

In case anyone has missed the dueling budget proposals out this week from Rep. Paul Ryan on the Republican side and Sen. Patty Murray for the Democrats, don't fret. You could easily have slept through the last four months and missed nothing. They are...

The federal budget deficit for the first half of the fiscal year is $53 billion less than it was in the same period a year ago, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

2012-04-06 00:00:00

Mark Lenz has joined the Chicago law firm of Aronberg Goldgehn Davis & Garmisa. Lenz focuses on public finance, real estate and public law.

2010-08-24 00:00:00

President Obama signs the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act at the White House on July 22, 2010 in Washington, D.C. The signed bill will require federal agencies to put forth more funds towards audits to curb improper spending. (Photo by Brendan Hoffman-Pool/Getty Images)

2010-07-22 17:27:02