Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman announced seven community town hall meetings to discuss the upcoming county budget. One meeting will be held in each County Council district, in collaboration with its councilmember. The county executive will introduce the budget on May 1, in accordance with the county charter; the County Council then has 45 […]
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Howard Public Works to host community meeting on Circuit Courthouse
Howard County’s Department of Public Works (DPW) will hold a community outreach meeting on Thursday, Feb. 21, from 6-8 p.m. in the cafeteria at Howard High School, 8700 Old Annapolis Road, Ellicott City, to share plans for the new Howard County Circuit Courthouse project. County employees and representatives from Edgemoor-Star America Judicial Partners will be […]
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Howard County Seeks Nominees for Business Recycling , Green Leadership Awards
The Howard County Department of Public Works’ Bureau of Environmental Services has announced that nomination forms are available for its annual Business Recycling and Waste Reduction and Green Community Leadership awards at www.HowardCountyRecycles.org. All nominations must be delivered or postmarked by 5 p.m., Friday, March 1, to Gemma Evans, Recycling Coordinator, 6751 Columbia Gateway Drive, […]
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Anne Arundel Implements CivicReady Mass Notification System
Anne Arundel County Office of Emergency Management has partnered with CivicReady to implement its new mass notification system, Alert Anne Arundel. The new CivicReady mass notification system will allow the county to issue urgent notifications, emergency instructions, warnings and even routine communications to subscribed citizens via email, text message and voicemail alert, to keep citizens […]
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State Makes New Public Charter School Investments
The administration of Gov. Larry Hogan is working to strengthen Maryland’s investments in public charter schools and their students with new charter school funding in its budget, as well as introducing legislation to ensure more dollars go directly to the classrooms at public charter schools. Thirty-four percent of public charter schools in Maryland performed in […]
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Maryland Millionaires: State Loses Its Top Ranking
America had 534,000 more millionaires in 2018 and New Jersey has nudged out Maryland as the state with the most millionaires per capita for the first time in seven years, according to the annual Phoenix Wealth & Affluent Monitor. In Maryland, which ranked fourth on the new list, there are 200,074 millionaire households, for a […]
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Cardin, Van Hollen Introduce Legislation to Support School Construction, Renovation Needs
U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) have signed on as original co-sponsors to the Rebuild America’s Schools Act (S. 266), a bill that would provide $100 billion in federal resources to rebuild and modernize schools throughout the nation and Maryland. Maryland public schools have an estimated $4 billion backlog in capital […]
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Ball, Congressman Sarbanes Hear from Contractors on Shutdown Impact
Howard County Executive Calvin Ball and Congressman John Sarbanes heard from nearly 30 federal contractors who described the impact of the recent historic 35-day government shutdown. The roundtable, held at the offices of Sparksoft, in Columbia, was hosted in partnership with the Howard County Economic Development Authority and the Howard County Chamber of Commerce. Some […]
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Howard Transition Team Delivers Report to Ball
The transition team appointed by Howard County Executive Calvin Ball has delivered its transition report: The 67-page document, prepared by a group of more than 100 community leaders, studied and evaluated areas of county government with a focus on ideas designed to move the county forward. The team identified more than 60 issue areas and […]
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Howard’s Ball Honors 50 Years of Charter Government
On Jan. 22, Howard County Executive Calvin Ball joined former county executives in acknowledging 50 years of Charter government in Howard County. Voters adopted the charter and elected Omar Jones the first county executive in November 1968. Former County Executives Ken Ulman, Jim Robey and Ed Cochran joined in the conversation and ceremonial cake cutting […]