Archive for the ‘WBAL’ Category

Pensions could be election issue

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

The council passed a bill earlier this year that reforms pensions for councilman but it might still be a campaign issue this September and November.

Maryland Morning News anchor Bill Vanko and I talk about it in today’s installment of our weekly talk about county politics.

This one left me breathless

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Sorry for the delay in posting but here’s my weekly conversation with Maryland Morning News Anchor Bill Vanko about county politics including last week’s endorsement of Kevin Kamenetz for county executive by fellow Democratic Councilman John Olszewski Sr. We also talk about how other eastside elected officials are lining up and what that might mean.

This three minutes literally left me struggling to catch my breath.

Mountains of snow, piles of debt

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

All that snow is adding up to a lot of additional red ink for the county.

Maryland Morning News anchor Bill Vanko and I talk about the bill for the two February blizzards and how the county hopes to pay for including a possible reimbursement from FEMA.

Snow politics

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Maryland’s Morning News Anchor Bill Vanko and I talk the politics of snow removal on this week’s chat.

Beyond Powerball

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Maryland joined the Powerball drawings last night but that might not help Baltimore County, which just saw its projected budget deficit for the current year grow $6 million to $144 million.

Maryland Morning News Anchor Bill Vanko and I talk about it in this week’s chat about Baltimore County politics.

WBAL: Illegal immigration and council campaigns

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Today’s political chat with Maryland Morning News anchor Bill Vanko.

We discussed a county resolution that would impose sanctions on companies that do business with the county if they also hire illegal immigrants, and Councilman Ken Oliver’s fundraising efforts and a Democratic challenger to his seat.

Pensions and probable candidates

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

This week’s chat with Maryland Morning News anchor Bill Vanko. This week, we talk about recently passed legislation to reform pensions for county council members and Ken Holt and Del. Pat McDonough, two top GOP prospects for county executive

It’s a lot of money

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Check out this story on WBAL.com for my discussion with Robert Lang about the $1.1 million in cash on hand raised by Councilman Kevin Kamenetz.

Talking General Assembly

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Sorry for the delay in posting. There were some technical issues on my end. I hope to get you all caught up with some stuff that happened Thursday. Here’s the first of them

Here’s this week’s installment of my weekly chat with Maryland Morning News anchor Bill Vanko.  We covered the county’s expectations for the 90-day General Assembly session that began on Wednesday and the politics of the competing pension reform bills before the County Council.

Saturday politics chat

Friday, January 8th, 2010

I’ll be on The Bruce Elliott Show Saturday in the 8 a.m. hour talking politics — probably Sheila Dixon.