Reports set course for new administration

Gov. Martin O?Malley repeated to his new Cabinet recently what he was once told by former New Orleans mayor Marc Morial: If you want to hide something important, put it in your budget or your city charter. Nobody ever reads those.

That?s not what O?Malley necessarily intended last week when he released 21 reports from his transition work groups amounting to more than 1,000 pages and posted them all online (www.gov.state.md.us/pressreleases/070222.html#reports). Hidden in plan sight, you might say.