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By Dan Rodricks | June 24, 2009
According to The Washington Post, Gov. Martin O'Malley is about to issue his first pardons since taking office in January 2007, and there are no convicted killers on the short list of those who will catch a break from the Democratic governor. In fact, Mr. O'Malley's mercy extends only to seven people, and they were convicted years ago of petty theft and disorderly conduct. "I suppose my orientation from being a big-city mayor and having seen the violence on our streets is more of a tough-on-crime orientation," the governor and former mayor of Baltimore told the Post.
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By Liz Atwood | September 14, 2008
Former Maryland first lady Frances Hughes Glendening is the head of Jobs for America's Graduates-District of Columbia Inc., a private, not-for-profit organization. She is president of the board of directors for the Maryland Women's Heritage Center and an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. Glendening lives in University Park. 1 4 more hours, daily: "I'd really like six, but I won't be greedy. I'd take four more hours to spend with friends, family, hobbies and to devote to my lifelong passions, including women's rights and the arts, among others."
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June 23, 2008
Although this fact may not have been apparent to readers of The Sun's recent article on the future of the Rosewood Center site ("Hospitals' acreage is lure for developers," June 15), this land is situated directly across the road from the Caves Valley conservation area. The Maryland Environmental Trust and the Caves Valley Land Trust jointly hold conservation easements that cover nearly 1,500 acres in the area, including a 116-acre parcel of surplus Rosewood Center property that the state donated to the Irvine Nature Center eight years ago in response to a conservation proposal from the land trust.
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By Liz F. Kay | February 3, 2008
Eugene "Gene" Raymond Lynch III, a member of Gov. Parris N. Glendening's Cabinet who orchestrated the preservation of Deep Creek Lake for future generations, died of metastatic bladder cancer Friday at Casey House, a Rockville hospice. He was 50. The former governor described his friend and colleague as a "renaissance man of public service," given Mr. Lynch's background as a civic activist, labor organizer and small-business owner. "Very few people brought that kind of diversity of background to his service," Mr. Glendening said.
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By David Nitkin | December 13, 2007
Former Gov. Parris N. Glendening endorsed New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson for president yesterday, citing the fellow Democrat's commitment to environmental protection and fighting global climate change. "As secretary of energy, he was a leader on mass transit and smart growth issues," Glendening said in a statement released by the Richardson campaign. "As governor of New Mexico, he has turned around an economy while also protecting the environment." A former two-term Democratic governor, Glendening is best known as a champion of anti-sprawl development policies.
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By Michael Dresser | December 12, 2007
Nancy S. Grasmick, one of Maryland's most tenacious political survivors, won't be evicted easily from the Nancy S. Grasmick Building. With a combination of sterling professional credentials and shrewd political maneuvering, the nation's longest- serving state schools superintendent has managed to hang on to her office under four governors. Yesterday, the State Board of Education gave her the glimmer of a chance she might serve under a fifth. It awarded Grasmick, 68, a new four-year contract that would keep her in her job until after the 2010 gubernatorial election - if she can hold on. The board acted in brash defiance of the state's three most powerful elected officials - Gov. Martin O'Malley, Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller and House Speaker Michael E. Busch.
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By Timothy B. Wheeler | October 4, 2007
The architect of Maryland's decade-old Smart Growth policy spoke up for it yesterday, arguing that despite its shortcomings at curbing suburban sprawl it has helped revitalize dying downtowns across the state and kick-started a national movement to build more transit-oriented, walkable communities. Speaking in Annapolis at a conference reviewing the growth-management law he crafted, former Gov. Parris N. Glendening acknowledged that a few metropolitan areas and states such as Oregon and Seattle have had more success than has Maryland at reining in low-density development.
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By Timothy B. Wheeler | August 24, 2007
Gov. Martin O'Malley and his Cabinet closeted themselves with former Gov. Parris N. Glendening and out-of-state planning experts yesterday to hash over ways to reinvigorate Smart Growth, the state's decade-old sprawl-fighting effort that some say has failed to live up to its promise. "The public is crying out for this," O'Malley said in opening the two-day internal workshop on growth management at an Annapolis hotel. Though welcoming up to 60,000 new jobs to the state from military base realignment, the governor said Maryland needs to figure out how to accommodate the new people while still preserving its environment and quality of life.
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By Andrew A. Green | February 9, 2007
There's a new lead singer, but the band is back together. Gov. Martin O'Malley's latest round of hires brings to eight the number of officials from Gov. Parris N. Glendening's administration who have been brought back to head state departments. He's not done with his nominations yet, but already more than a third of O'Malley's Cabinet has been culled from the ranks of the last Democrat to hold the chief executive's office in Maryland. Glendening alumni are heading the departments of Budget and Management, Health and Mental Hygiene, Transportation, Planning, Environment, Natural Resources, Housing and Community Development, and General Services.
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January 16, 2007
History may look more kindly on Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s term as governor than voters did last November. At the moment, any report card would probably offer a Gentleman's C for his four years in office. The accomplishments of the term are modest, but nothing disastrous took place and he won't leave office tomorrow as unpopular as Parris N. Glendening was. What happened during Mr. Ehrlich's time in Annapolis seems, in retrospect, to have been inevitable. Elected the first Republican governor since Spiro T. Agnew, the former congressman inherited a difficult budget mess (chiefly a downturn in tax receipts with an uptick in education spending)