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Pledging Support for Military Retiree Tax Credit
ELLICOTT CITY- As part of his plan to get Maryland’s economy working again, Bob Ehrlich today pledged that he will introduce legislation to exempt 100 percent of military pension income for qualified military retirees in Maryland. His plan will ...
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Pledging to Restore Portion of Local Transportation Aid Raided by Governor O’Malley
As part of his plan to get Maryland working again, Bob Ehrlich today announced that his first budget as Governor will restore 25 percent of the local transportation aid that Governor Martin O’Malley raided last year. The restoration will equal approximately $60 million and will help local governments ...
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Ehrlich-Kane Campaign Exceeds Fundraising Goal, Shows Strong Momentum Heading into Fall Campaign
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Ehrlich Campaign Proposes Five Debates
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Pledging to Lower Sales Tax and Halt Tax’s Expansion to More Goods & Services
Bob Ehrlich met with Baltimore County families today to discuss the need to roll back Governor Martin O’Malley’s 20% increase in the sales tax in order to boost Maryland’s economy. He also pledged that he would oppose any effort ...
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Discussing Threats to Services for At Risk Youths
Child Advocates Criticize State Moves to Centralize Control and Cut Funds for At-Risk Kids
Bob Ehrlich met today with parents, educators, and family advocates who expressed growing concerns about what they consider emerging threats to state services for Maryland’s at-risk children. Ehrlich ...
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Renewing Commitment to the Chesapeake Bay’s Restoration
On the shores of Maryland’s Back River, Bob Ehrlich today pledged to protect Maryland’s landmark Chesapeake Bay Restoration Act, which Governor Martin O’Malley has drained by $155 million during his tenure. The Bay Restoration Act is vital to fixing wastewater treatment plants, which dump 16 million pounds of ...
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Martin O’Malley’s “Choices”
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Bob Renews Call for New Nuclear Facility at Calvert Cliffs
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Bob Ehrlich Pledges Funds to Return TV & Film Jobs to Maryland
HUNT VALLEY -- Bob Ehrlich met with members of the embattled film and TV production industry today and agreed to invest $7 million in a key state tax credit to help bring back to Maryland the ...
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Bob Ehrlich on Jobs
Nowhere could this argument lack more credibility than on Maryland's economic climate, which is unquestionably less friendly to job creation than ...
Gazette.Net: Where is the truth squad?
Politicians fighting for their political lives can't be trusted to tell the truth. Ask them about their records, or their opponent's records, and you get mostly distortions, fabrications and outright falsehoods.
Here's a good example. Gov. Martin O'Malley claims that his opponent, Bob Ehrlich, ...
Baltimore Sun: Slots and opportunism in Anne Arundel
Mike Cross-Barnet
If former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. is looking for evidence to bolster his claims that current Gov. Martin O’Malley has been fiscally reckless, he need look no further than the Democratic incumbent’s public stance in favor of the referendum to overturn the ...
Ehrlich talks job creation with Howard County business leaders
By Sarah Breitenbach
sbreitenbach@patuxent.com
GOP gubernatorial candidate Robert Ehrlich addresses Howard County business leaders during a roundtable discussion in Ellicott City Thursday morning. As he has done in similar meetings throughout the state, Ehrlich criticized Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley ...
Ehrlich talk issues, sports and The Beatles
By Paige L. Hill
Former Gov. Bob Ehrlich (R) announced in March that he would make a run to get his old job back in the Maryland gubernatorial elections in November. His plans mean a much-anticipated rematch with current Gov. Martin O’Malley, ...
Maryland Economist predicts taxes will go up, local aid will go down
Basu, one of the most widely-quoted economic experts ...
Maryland Rematch
May 24, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 34
In 2006, Bob Ehrlich of Maryland was the only Republican governor to lose his seat to a Democrat. His defeat was no surprise. Maryland is a strongly Democratic state that before Ehrlich hadn’t elected ...
Why Northrop chose Virginia
May 12, 2010
After months of intense courtship, it wasn't Maryland or the District of Columbia, but their rival across the river that finally got the nod of approval from defense contractor Northrop Grumman, ranked 61st on the Fortune 500. The storied company -- maker of ...
Debt Capitals
May 7, 2010
World Magazine
It's no secret that the federal government is running up an enormous debt, but many state governments are not doing much better. The recession, by reducing the revenues flowing into state capitals, has ...
Gazette.net: (Business) climate change
Scientists disagree on global warming. Is climate change natural or manmade? And can humans halt its course? I don't know.
But humans are certainly responsible for Maryland's business climate, which just lost Northrop Grumman to Virginia after an intense battle over where the ...