Highlights from 2011:

• Through November, we created 26,700 new jobs
• We had the largest single-month drop in the unemployment rate since 1984
• Our schools continue to rank #1 in the nation
• Crime is at its lowest level since 1975
• We met the spending affordability committee guidelines for 5 years
• We remain one of only eight states to maintain a Triple A bond rating
• Together, we expanded health care to 300,000 previously uninsured Marylanders--more than half of whom are children

More here: http://www.gov.state.md.us/documents/2011ReviewFinal.pdf

This year, our top priority will remain creating and saving jobs through a balanced approach of tough, targeted choices that spur job creation.