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Thursday, June 10, 2010

Recent Prince George's County News (10 Jun 2010)

Public Safety
2010 Election
Other Politics
  • Gazette: Lt. gov. questioned on delayed road improvements near Andrews AFB; Brown: plans on hold due to lack of funds http://bit.ly/b2pXdY
Education
Other
  • Gazette: Citizens tell planners to focus on mass transit; Bowie State meeting calls for Purple Line to circle all of DC http://bit.ly/9RlXob
  • Gazette: Hospital system gets ‘extremely weak' score; Fitch Ratings raises concerns about efforts to sell county ... http://bit.ly/coqyDl 
  • Gazette: Struggling museum will begin holding summer tours (Poplar Hill on His Lordship's Kindness museum in Clinton) http://bit.ly/9Esr8X 
Recent Candidate Filings:
  • Carla McClinton
    • Candidate for Register of Wills
    • Filing information
      • McClinton, Carla
      • Democratic 
      • Mailing Address P.O. Box 1400, Clinton, MD 20735
      • Public (240) 882-8214
      • Juris. Prince George`s  
      • EMail friendstoelectmcclinton@gmail.com
      • Status Active
      • Filed Regular - 06/09/10
  • James W. Hubbard
    • Candidate for reelection as Delegate, District 23A
    • Filing information
      • Hubbard, James W.
      • Democratic 
      • Mailing Address 13305 Gallery Court, Bowie, MD 20720
      • Public
      • Juris. Prince George`s 
      • EMail james.w.hubbard@verizon.net
      • Status Active
      • Filed Regular - 06/10/10
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Recent News about Prince George's County (4 Mar 2009)

(Posted 4 Mar 2009)
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Monday, March 02, 2009

Recent News about Prince George's County (2 Mar 2009)


(Posted 2 Mar 2009)
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009

PG Porkers (Del. Holmes, Hubbard, & Levi)

Maryland has a fiscal crisis with a huge deficit looming despite the huge 2007 tax increase. But Tax and Spend Delegates Marvin E. Holmes, Jr. (D-23B), James W. Hubbard (D-23A), and Gerron S. Levi (D-23A) want to spend even more of the money we don't have on non-essential, non-state government frills instead of maintaining essential state services like education and public safety. How many more state employees will be laid off or furloughed to help buy votes for these delegates?

  • HB 424 , Creation of a State Debt - Prince George's County - South Bowie Boys and Girls Club Concession Stand ($50,000)
  • HB 435, Creation of a State Debt - Prince George's County - Olde Mill Community and Teaching Center ($50,000)
  • HB 469, Creation of a State Debt - Prince George's County - Bowie Indoor Sports Plex ($50,000)

(Posted 4 Feb 2009)
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Saturday, March 15, 2008

Electric bills up 14 to 78 percent, PG senators want to raise them even higher

First the Democrats broke their promises and allowed obscene electric
rate increases to go into effect. Then they passed the largest tax
increase in Maryland history. Now they are working hard to raise
electric rates again. This is the party that claims to be looking out
for the common people???

Residents Stung by High Cost Of Power
Bills Have Risen 14 to 78 Percent
 By Kirstin Downey
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 16, 2008; Page A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/15/AR2008031501014.html

Senators Who Voted to Raise Your Energy Costs
The Global Warming Solutions Act has passed out of the Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee by a 5-3 vote.
The following senators voted to directly raise your energy costs and add draconian restrictions on Maryland's economy.
Joan Carter Conway
Michael G. Lenett
Paul G. Pinsky
James C. Rosapepe
David C. Harrington
http://themainadversary.blogspot.com/

Prince George's County senators sponsoring this bill are
Pinsky (D-22), Currie (D-25), Muse (D-26), Peters (D-23), and Rosapepe (D-21).

Prince George's sponsors of the companion house bill are:
Barnes (D-21), Holmes (D-23B), Hubbard (D-23A), Ivey (D-47) Niemann (D-47), Ramirez (D-47), Ross (D-22), and Walker (D-26).

If you, or someone you know, has trouble paying rapidly rising utility bills, keep these folks in mind.
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Friday, November 09, 2007

Slots & Taxes: What our legislators are saying (part 14)

(Posted 9 Nov 2007)
Senate gives preliminary approval to slots referendum.
Baltimore Examiner, 8 Nov 2007 (Witte, AP).
(and several other sources under varying titles)
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Sen. Delores Kelley, D-Baltimore County, first tried to take landscaping services out of the bill. Kelley said she has heard from hundreds of landscapers whose businesses have suffered from drought can't imagine how they would start implementing the tax.

But Sen. Ulysses Currie said "people who are able to bring in lawn services would be able to pay this tax." Currie, D-Prince George's, also said there could be further changes when the House acts on the proposal.
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Comment: My neighbors who use lawn services are almost all retired people on fixed incomes who are no longer physically capable of doing the work. Although the Democrats claim to support senior citizens, this makes it look as if they, led by Sen. Currie, want to help drive our seniors out of their homes as they age.

Keeping score on taxes no easy task.
Sun, 9 Nov 2007 (Marbella).
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Then there was the fiddling with the sales tax -- the proposal to increase it from 5 percent to 6 percent remains, but now it will be expanded to a different group of services, landscape and computer services and video arcades, none of which had any idea they were being considered.

So the gyms and the real estate management interests were prepared, and put on a successful full-court -- or rather, full-lobby -- effort to remain exempt from the sales tax. Meanwhile, the gardening, computer and arcade businesses were caught, well, maybe not with their pants down but without a lobbyist in tow -- apparently a much more dangerous thing this time of year.

And yet, Sen. Ulysses Currie, head of the budget committee, played down the role that lobbyists had on whom the committee decided to tax, or not tax.

"Lobbyists," Currie actually said on the Senate floor yesterday, "almost have no influence on the vote."

Hmm, the guys who would get taxed under the current bill had no lobbyists in place, and the ones who won't get taxed did -- what a coincidence.
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Another blogger comments:

The Beclowning of Ulysses Currie.
Red Maryland, 9 Nov 2007 (Streiff).
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When asked if the proposed sales tax on landscaping services would include kids who mowed grass or removed snow, Senator Currie opined, "[P]eople who are able to bring in lawn services would be able to pay this tax."
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This guy is a clown. He may not be the biggest clown in the General Assembly, that would be a title hotly contested by probably a dozen or so members, but yesterday he was certainly the most prominent clown.
My comment: I can't help how long Currie's nose grew at this point: "Lobbyists," Currie actually said on the Senate floor yesterday, "almost have no influence on the vote."

Sales tax for computer services draws opposition; Opponents say tax plan would hurt small business.
Daily Record, 8 Nov 2007 (Rosen).
A proposed sales tax on computer services emerged as a popular target Thursday as foes called it unclear and dangerous to small business.
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An impassioned Sen. E.J. Pipkin, R-Upper Shore, said the proposal was moving too quickly and there should be more time for people to respond to the proposal and for legislators to clarify the intent of the legislation.

“What’s the rush this week …?” he asked Senate Budget and Taxation Committee Chairman Ulysses Currie, D-Prince George’s. “You’ve just included millions of people into a tax bill, and you didn’t get the input of the industry, and you’re saying we didn’t have time.”

Currie responded that now is the time to get the state’s budget in order.
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Health club sales tax draws fire here.
Bowie Blade-news, 8 Nov 2007 (McHugh).
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Instead of a bill that taxes people who exercise, there should be a bill that rewards them for their conscientiousness, he said.

Del. Jim Hubbard, D-Bowie 23A, agrees, and opposes the tax for health clubs. "Those are the people who are trying to stay healthy and who won't have to spend as much on Medicare and medication in their older years. So why should we penalize them when they're trying to stay healthy?" Hubbard, of Bowie, is assistant House majority leader and serves on the Health and Government Operations Committee.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Shortfall Generates Surplus of Md. Bills; At Special Session, Ideas Vary Widely

(Posted 31 Oct 2007)
Shortfall Generates Surplus of Md. Bills; At Special Session, Ideas Vary Widely.
Post, 31 Oct 2007 (Wiggins & Rucker).
Even though Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley called a special session of the legislature to address his plan to close a potential $1.7 billion budget shortfall, lawmakers came to Annapolis this week with more than 50 bills of their own -- some offering alternatives to the governor's proposal but others focusing on completely different issues.

A lawmaker from Prince George's has even revived an effort to save the financially troubled Prince George's Hospital Center.

In one revenue-raising proposal, Sen. Jennie M. Forehand (D-Montgomery) has proposed a bill that would increase the tax on alcoholic beverages from $1.50 to $3.50 a gallon for distilled spirits, from 40 cents to $1 a gallon for wine and from 9 to 25 cents a gallon for beer. [Note: HB 32, co-sponsored by Delegates Holmes (D-23B), Proctor (D-27A), and Niemann (D-47).]
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A bill [HB 38] sponsored by Del. Doyle L. Niemann (D-Prince George's) falls into that category. It proposes a solution to the troubles of Dimensions Healthcare System, which operates Prince George's Hospital Center in Cheverly, Laurel Regional Hospital, Bowie Health Center and two nursing homes.

The measure would allow the governor to set up an authority to devise a long-term plan for the hospital system. The authority would be charged with negotiating with management companies interested in taking over the system. It also would acquire the system's property and assume its bond debt and pension liability.

Niemann floated a similar idea during this year's regular session, but the measure failed because the county did not support it. He has made adjustments to the bill, including eliminating a county tax to help fund the hospital system. Niemann's bill has been assigned to the rules committee.

Del. Barbara A. Frush (D-Prince George's) has introduced legislation [HB 37] to eliminate state funding for the intercounty connector highway that would link Montgomery and Prince George's counties. She called the road project "a big mistake." [Note: Co-sponsored by Delegates Barnes (D-21), Hubbard (D-23A), Ivey (D-47), Niemann (D-47), Pena-Melnyk (D-21), Ramirez (D-47), Ross (D-22), and Vaughn (D-24).]

"It's a bad way to spend money, especially at a time when our money is scarce," she said. But her bill has also been referred to the rules committee and is unlikely to be heard.
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Sunday, October 21, 2007

PG Taxers: Sponsors of bills to increase taxes (2007 regular session)

(Posted 21 Oct 2007)
In anticipation of the special session of the General Assembly, called by Gov. O'Malley as part of his plan to raise our taxes, here is a list of tax and fee increase bills sponsored by Prince George's County senators and delegates during the 2007 regular session. The list may not be complete--official bill titles and synopses do not always mention taxes or fees buried in the text of the bills. A few delegates apparently did not sponsor any tax increase bills. Sen. Pinsky and Del. Ross appear to have sponsored the most.
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

PG Delegates sponsor vill to let more criminals vote

(Posted 31 Jan 2007)
House Bill 273, Voting Rights Restoration - Ex-Offenders, 31 Jan 2007

Sponsored By:

Delegates Braveboy (25), Barnes (21), Benson (24), Davis (25), Frush (21), Gaines (22), Griffith (25), Healey (22), Holmes (23B), Howard (24), Hubbard (23A), Ivey (47), Pena-Melnyk (21), Proctor (27A), Ramirez (47), Ross (22), Valderrama (26), and Vaughn (24)
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Gory Prince George's: Politicians seem to favor killers over victims

(Posted 30 Jan 2007)
Commentary:

Why do so many of our elected officials seem so much more concerned with preventing the execution of killers than with preventing the execution of innocent victims?

I have been closely following murders in Prince George's County for over three years now, and have posted online basic details and news links for over 450 Prince George's County homicides, including many never reported by the news media.

For over two years I have tried to relate both homicide locations and victim's residences to the districts of our elected County Council and General Assembly members, and have generally e-mailed information about the homicides to those members.

While reviewing news reports of homicides, I have made a special effort to search out the reactions of our elected officials.

During the years I have been doing this, I have learned that our elected officials almost never respond publicly to homicide reports, either in the press or in response to my e-mails (where the response rate is about 2%), and very rarely respond publicly to our homicide problem, which is one of the worst in the nation.

Over 450 victims executed, and almost no public response from our General Assembly members.

Yet many of those members are sponsoring and publicly supporting efforts to repeal the death penalty and protect the killers--people who have executed others--from execution.

I have mixed feeling about the death penalty, and the way it is carried out,

But I do feel strongly that it should be more important for our officials to spend time and energy trying to save the one hundred to two hundred innocents likely to be executed without trial this year than to save half-a-dozen convicted killers who had their trials.

Why are our elected officials devoting so much effort to saving so few killers and so little effort to saving so many victims? What are their priorities? Whose side are they on? Apparently the killers' side.

Prince George's sponsors of House Bill 225:

Joanne C. Benson (24), Tawanna P. Gaines (22), Anne Healey (22), Marvin E. Holmes, Jr. (23B), Carolyn J. B. Howard (24), James W. Hubbard (23A), Doyle L. Niemann (47), Joseline A. Peña-Melnyk (21), James E. Proctor, Jr. (27A), Michael L. Vaughn (24)

Prince George's sponsors of Senate Bill 211:

Gwendolyn T. Britt (47), Nathaniel Exum (24), C. Anthony Muse (26), Douglas J. J. Peters (23), Paul G. Pinsky (22).

Note that all members from District 24 are listed above. In 2006, District 24 accounted for far more homicides and victims than any other district in the county--almost a third of the county's total in this one gory district out of eight.
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Thursday, January 25, 2007

PG Nannies: Del. Hubbard seeks to dictate what we can eat.

(Posted 25 Jan 2007)
Would-be petty tyrant Del. James W. Hubbard (D-23A), apparent supporter of government force and opponent of education and individual responsibility has introduced HB91, a bill to dictate what food consumers may or may not purchase.

Delegate goes after trans fats; Hubbard introduces a bill to ban most of them in restaurant cooking.
Sun, 25 Jan 2007 (Smitheran).
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