As MACo continues its advocacy efforts to stop the teacher pension shift, local governments are vocalizing the damaging effects the shift would have back home. Allegany County Commissioner Bill Valentine…
An opinion piece in the Huffington Post by Steven Cohen, Executive Director, Columbia University's Earth Institute, discusses the difficult budget situations of local governments across the country. While tax revenues…
The Calvert County Recorder reports that the Calvert County Board of Commissioners have asked all local agencies to join the county in lobbying against the proposed teacher pension shift onto…
The “great recession” of recent years has clearly taken a toll on governments – as the economy weakened, tax revenues receded, just as demand for many public services grew. While…
In the budget analysis, Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) - Aid to Education, the Department of Legislative Services (DLS) discusses the teacher pension shift to county governments and maintenance…
According to a Baltimore Sun article "...various county government and community groups...came out to the Howard County Delegation's public hearing Tuesday, February 21 to speak in opposition to the proposed…
As counties continue to vocalize opposition to aspects of the Governor's proposed budget, the Lower Shore delegation has come forward in opposition the current provision that shifts $239 million in…
The Allegany County Commissioners, Michael W. McKay, Creade V. Brodie, Jr., and William R. Valentine will hold a press conference on Tuesday February, 28 2012 at 10:00 a.m. at the…
