This weeks EHRLICH Cuts Placing Marylanders at Risk

[AuntiBush]

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EHRLICH CUTS PUT MARYLANDERS AT RISK
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Governor ignores the Assembly, shuts offices

Law passed this year directed Ehrlich to keep wage protection agencies open; Md. officials fight for power over purse strings

By Andrew A. Green
Sun Staff
June 16, 2005

The Ehrlich administration is shutting down the offices that enforce minimum wage and prevailing wage laws, ignoring legislation passed by the General Assembly this year directing the governor to keep them open. Legislative leaders and union officials called the Ehrlich administration's move a backdoor attempt to repeal the prevailing wage statute and a violation of the governor's duty to follow and enforce laws passed by the Assembly.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bal-te.md.wages16jun16,1,5688012,print.story?coll=bal-home-headlines
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Ehrlich kills popular grant used to raise test scores By Heather A. Dinich and David Abrams, Annapolis Capital Staff Writers Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. has killed a popular grant that helped teachers raise test scores in Annapolis' low-achieving schools, a move a leading backer of the program quickly blamed on political gamesmanship. The governor decided not to provide $3.5 million for the Teacher Challenge Grant, including $600,000 for county schools. The money paid for 13 teachers and specialists trained in dealing with behavior issues and reading, as well as a summer math program.

http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2005/06_15-35/TOP
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Governor cuts grants to troubled schools $3.5 million eliminated from 2006 budget for challenge program

By Liz F. Kay and Molly Knight
Sun Staff
June 16, 2005

Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. has cut funding for a program championed by House Speaker Michael E. Busch that aims to improve test scores and behavior in struggling schools. State officials, citing uncertainty over tobacco settlement funds, informed school systems this week that $3.5 million in challenge grants would not be coming.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.challenge16jun16,1,2104363,print.story?coll=bal-local-headlines
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Baltimore Sun Editorial
June 15, 2005

EHRLICH ADMINISTRATION officials knew they were going to get an earful when they walked into War Memorial Plaza on Monday for the first in a series of public hearings on reconfiguring Baltimore's bus routes. The angry crowd did not disappoint. Deciding where and when buses travel isn't a simple accounting: People's lives can depend on such things. Saving money by canceling underused bus lines is one thing, but when rerouting a bus means people can't get to jobs, the savings are of questionable value.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/bal-ed.routes15jun15,1,5590494,print.story?coll=bal-opinion-headlines
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Bus cuts could affect service to AACC, Arundel Mills By Ryan Bagwell Annapolis Capital Staff Writer A comprehensive study of the region's bus lines could eliminate service to Arundel Mills mall, areas of Pasadena and affect service to the county community college. The county's three bus lines - routes 14, 17 and 64 - will be altered later this year if the proposals are approved by the Maryland Transit Administration. A public meeting with state officials on the cuts is scheduled for Wednesday in Glen Burnie.

http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2005/06_13-22/TOP
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Hundreds gather to decry bus route changes Riders predict hardships; MTA leaders skip hearing By Michael Dresser Sun Staff June 14, 2005 Baltimore-area residents turned out by the hundreds yesterday to vent their anger at state officials who are proposing a radical restructuring of Maryland Transit Administration bus routes. Emotions in the hearing room at War Memorial Plaza were nearly as hot as the sidewalks outside as speaker after speaker excoriated a proposed plan that would reroute, consolidate, truncate or eliminate many long-familiar routes through the city and its suburbs as of Oct. 16.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bal-te.md.bus14jun14,1,4292134,print.story?coll=bal-home-headlines

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EHRLICH, STEELE, AND THE DANGEROUS MISMANAGEMENT OF STATE GOVERNMENT
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Children still being housed illegally in office building

They have no place to go, says state agency director

By Lynn Anderson
Sun Staff
June 15, 2005

City Department of Social Services officials are continuing to illegally house foster children at a downtown office building, the director of the state-run agency confirmed yesterday. Samuel Chambers Jr. said that two teenage girls, one of whom ran away from the facility about 10 p.m. Monday, were staying at the office because they had no place else to go. He said he hadn't been told if the girls had refused placement at a treatment facility or if they had been ejected from one.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.shelter15jun15,1,7000044,print.story?coll=bal-local-headlines
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[undergroundpanther]

1. Why

can't we shut erlich down.Make him stay in his office like a bad little boy,force him to have a rtime out for not playing fair...Lock the bad hair bastard inside his office by sheer numbers..The jails can't hold every Dem in maryland..This pigboy will piss his pants,having to be held accountable like all repukee bullies fear accountability for what they do when they ABUSE power...I think Erlich is too chickenshit to TALK to anyone who might mess up the careful PR he tries to create. Gawd forbid he be asked a Sharp pointy QUESTION from a PLEBIAN IN PUBLIC while cameras catch him showing his ass.

How can we force this petty wannabe play fair with the legal process and dash his fantasies of control?...Erlich is such a Fucking crybaby,I I spit upon every repuke fool in Maryland for voting for this pathetic asshole bush boot licker as Govenor..I hope they really feel a pinch of shame,poverty, regret and feel the scorn they deserve so they want to LEAVE Maryland and go move to a red state full of thier own miserable kind..and take helmut hair with them.

[AuntiBush]

2. Wish I could tell you

what the ba#tard did to me w/regards to my late husband and the help of some big, evil downtown lawyers.

Did you see what he did Friday? Caught it yesterday on the internet (we're suffering outages here too, if you haven't noticed the weird change)... It's now official. Our police & state troopers can now carry weapons off-duty "across" state lines at any time.

Look, I'm not knocking the good ones, but their only human and you know the stories we've witnessed. Again, their only human.

And he's bent on literally giving away our Preakness (Pimlico) straight to Florida. He's in the Chimp's pocket.

Jeez. Remember what he did to Michael O'lesker and his boss.

How about that hair cut? Looks like someone placed a bowl over it.

Here's hoping Maryland does not go red on us and boots his worthless a$$ out of here for good.