Tag: Local Editorial

Local Editorial: Moving on down the road

Examiner Editorial · June 13, 2013 4:00 am

Maryland voter registration director Mary Cramer-Wagner told marylandreporter.com that under the 1965 National Voting Rights Act, a deceased voter cannot be removed from the rolls unless a registrar receives an official notice of death. (Photo: Examiner file)

Local Editorial: Welcome to Maryland, home of the immortal voter

Examiner Editorial · June 10, 2013 4:00 am

Carpenters working on the privately funded CityCenterDC project pushed the owners to apply the Davis-Bacon Act, which makes it too costly to use nonunion workers. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Local Editorial: Don’t make CityCenterDC a prize for Big Labor

Examiner Editorial · June 9, 2013 4:00 am

Maryland hospitals are considering cost-cutting measures as they collectively grapple with losing up to $8 million a month before the new rates kick in. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Local Editorial: Maryland hospitals caught in financial squeeze

Examiner Editorial · June 6, 2013 4:00 am

Massachusetts passed another health care reform in 2011 that enabled municipalities to exempt co-pays and deductibles from collective bargaining. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Local Editorial: Shady contractors keep getting D.C. contracts

Examiner Editorial · June 5, 2013 4:00 am

D.C. Councilman David Catania wants to allow DC Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson to set up charterlike "innovation schools" not bound by central office dictates or teacher union contracts, and giving principals more control over finances and personnel. (Photo: Graeme Jennings/Examiner file)

Local Editorial: Failing schools should be converted to charters

Examiner Editorial · June 4, 2013 4:00 am

Fairfax County Board Chairwoman Sharon Bulova, a voting member of the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority, wants to spend most of her county's transportation windfall on the Route 28 Metrorail station rather than highway or road work. (Photo: Examiner file)

Local Editorial: Transit still getting more than its fair share

Examiner Editorial · June 3, 2013 4:00 am

Local Editorial: Chartered lawsuit is deja vu, again

Local Editorial: Chartered lawsuit is deja vu, again

Examiner Editorial · June 2, 2013 4:00 am

61 percent of Montgomery County Public Schools high school students flunked the final Algebra I exam, while only 11 percent earned an "A" or "B." (Photo: Thinkstock)

Local Editorial: Don’t blame the test

Examiner Editorial · May 30, 2013 4:00 am

Local Editorial: Ride Metro at your own risk

Local Editorial: Ride Metro at your own risk

Examiner Editorial · May 29, 2013 4:00 am

Arlington's Signature Theatre, which produces expensive, Broadway-type shows for which it won a regional Tony Award in 2009, moved into a new county-owned building in 2007 but still owes $7.8 million on a construction loan. (Photo: Teresa Wood)

Local Editorial: Signature Theatre deemed too fabulous to fail

Examiner Editorial · May 28, 2013 4:00 am

Local Editorial: IRS exposes Obama’s own war on women

Local Editorial: IRS exposes Obama’s own war on women

Examiner Editorial · May 25, 2013 4:00 am