New Taxes?

It appears that a Montgomery County state senator plans to re-introduce a bill to collect internet sales taxes from outfits such as Amazon.com.
Be sure to read the very last line in the article.
Think Maryland is business friendly? Or just wants to spend more?

UPDATED*2: Expense is EZ

Today is the day (That was July 1st.)
MTA starts charging customers a monthly fee of $1.50, $40 for replacement transponders if lost or broken, and a $25 deposit for new customers.
If you have a toll violation – that administrative fee goes up from $15 to $25.
Wow. Don’t speed through the toll booths now.
Update: According to [...]

Wrongful Termination???

What’s this? Politics affecting the Public Defender’s job?
Fired?
This is very, very bad.
I hope Nancy Forster is being fair and accurate, if so – there is something very, very wrong going on concerning JUSTICE! Or, is there going to be any Justice??

Mini-Tort Reform

As a consequence of the recent healthcare controversy, where we argue most strongly for Tort Reform, each state can do its part as well right now.
In my view, the first part to consider can actually be done right here in the General Assembly right now. And that is to make a consistent “Loser Pays” condition [...]

DNA Testing Takes Too Long

Baltimore prosecutors dropped charges against a suspect that was caught last year (May/June 2008) and had been in jail since then until being released this last July (according to 45 Fox News).
This was because it took so long for the DNA test results to verify that the suspect’s DNA did NOT match that of the [...]

Can we make it 19?

According to someone else – -
“The 18 states allowing for recall os(sic) Senators are as follows: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin.
Let’s roll. “
Reminder: the General Election next year will have the question “Do you want to hold a [...]