Daily News Clips Excerpts - April 11, 2005 - Maryland Democratic Party
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It's the kids - Baltimore Sun Editorial - April 11, 2005
MARYLANDERS didn't need a whistleblower to point out critical fissures in the state's child welfare system. For the Ehrlich administration to spend all its energy protesting the actions of an erstwhile ally, whose recently released e-mail exchanges with top department staff point out glaring safety issues in Baltimore and elsewhere, while not denying the substance of her messages, misses the point. [Complete Article]
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Ehrlich Counts on Unorthodox Appeals to Clinch His Agenda
By Matthew Mosk - Washington Post Staff Writer - Monday, April 11, 2005
As time was running out on the Maryland General Assembly's 90-day session last week, just three of Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s 19 policy initiatives had cleared the legislature. So the Republican governor did what he often does in a fix: He hit the airwaves. [Complete Article]
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Ehrlich vetoes bill making changes in the state elections board
By A Sun Staff Writer - April 9, 2005
Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. vetoed a bill yesterday allowing the state Democratic and Republican parties to pick members of the state elections board. The bill also would require all five election board members to have been confirmed by the state Senate before they could fire the elections administrator. [Complete Article]
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Ehrlich Vetoes Bills to Curb His Power
Metro in brief - April 9
Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) vetoed two bills yesterday that Democratic legislators had pushed to curb his power.
One bill would have altered the appointment process for the State Board of Elections, forcing Ehrlich to name Democratic members preapproved by the party's central committee. The bill also would have made it more difficult for the board to remove the state elections administrator; the current administrator is a Democrat.
Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D-Calvert) vowed to override the veto in his chamber as early as today. House Speaker Michael E. Busch (D-Anne Arundel) would not say what his chamber will do.
The other bill vetoed by Ehrlich would have required him to get input from the legislature before stating Maryland's posture on international trade deals.
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State's lax oversight puts fragile children at risk - First of four parts
By Jonathan D. Rockoff and John B. O'Donnell - Sun Staff - April 10, 2005
There were warning signs in the months before 11-year-old Arthur Lee Wiley became deathly ill. The severely disabled boy was kept in bed so long he moaned in pain. He suffered a broken leg for reasons no one has ever determined. By February 2002, his physician and child welfare workers had grown increasingly worried that the boy wasn't getting the care he needed at a group home for foster children in Randallstown. On March 4, the caseworkers asked other facilities to take Lee, who had cerebral palsy. But it was too late. [Complete Article]
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Trouble for Troubled Youth - Washington Post Editorial - Saturday, April 9, 2005
INFERNAL CONDITIONS and hair-raising abuses at Maryland's juvenile detention facilities are nothing new. As a candidate for governor in 2002, then-Rep. Robert L. Ehrlich (R) Jr. cited them as he hammered away at his opponent, then-Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (D), whose portfolio included oversight of the state's centers and reform schools for wayward youth. [Complete Article]
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It's the kids - Baltimore Sun Editorial - April 11, 2005
MARYLANDERS didn't need a whistleblower to point out critical fissures in the state's child welfare system. For the Ehrlich administration to spend all its energy protesting the actions of an erstwhile ally, whose recently released e-mail exchanges with top department staff point out glaring safety issues in Baltimore and elsewhere, while not denying the substance of her messages, misses the point. [Complete Article]
Ehrlich Counts on Unorthodox Appeals to Clinch His Agenda
By Matthew Mosk - Washington Post Staff Writer - Monday, April 11, 2005
As time was running out on the Maryland General Assembly's 90-day session last week, just three of Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s 19 policy initiatives had cleared the legislature. So the Republican governor did what he often does in a fix: He hit the airwaves. [Complete Article]
Ehrlich vetoes bill making changes in the state elections board
By A Sun Staff Writer - April 9, 2005
Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. vetoed a bill yesterday allowing the state Democratic and Republican parties to pick members of the state elections board. The bill also would require all five election board members to have been confirmed by the state Senate before they could fire the elections administrator. [Complete Article]
Ehrlich Vetoes Bills to Curb His Power
Metro in brief - April 9
Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) vetoed two bills yesterday that Democratic legislators had pushed to curb his power.
One bill would have altered the appointment process for the State Board of Elections, forcing Ehrlich to name Democratic members preapproved by the party's central committee. The bill also would have made it more difficult for the board to remove the state elections administrator; the current administrator is a Democrat.
Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D-Calvert) vowed to override the veto in his chamber as early as today. House Speaker Michael E. Busch (D-Anne Arundel) would not say what his chamber will do.
The other bill vetoed by Ehrlich would have required him to get input from the legislature before stating Maryland's posture on international trade deals.
State's lax oversight puts fragile children at risk - First of four parts
By Jonathan D. Rockoff and John B. O'Donnell - Sun Staff - April 10, 2005
There were warning signs in the months before 11-year-old Arthur Lee Wiley became deathly ill. The severely disabled boy was kept in bed so long he moaned in pain. He suffered a broken leg for reasons no one has ever determined. By February 2002, his physician and child welfare workers had grown increasingly worried that the boy wasn't getting the care he needed at a group home for foster children in Randallstown. On March 4, the caseworkers asked other facilities to take Lee, who had cerebral palsy. But it was too late. [Complete Article]
Trouble for Troubled Youth - Washington Post Editorial - Saturday, April 9, 2005
INFERNAL CONDITIONS and hair-raising abuses at Maryland's juvenile detention facilities are nothing new. As a candidate for governor in 2002, then-Rep. Robert L. Ehrlich (R) Jr. cited them as he hammered away at his opponent, then-Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (D), whose portfolio included oversight of the state's centers and reform schools for wayward youth. [Complete Article]
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