Cumberland Times News on Feb 18, 2010 - Gov. Martin O’Malley traveled to Allegany County on Wednesday to be on hand while the National Telecommunications and Information Administration jammed cell phones at the federal facility and also ran tests to see if off-premise phones were being affected as well. Contraband cell phones in prisons throughout the country may end up being legally jammed based upon this tests at the Federal Correctional Institution-Cumberland and the reaction of the U.S. Congress. FCI-Cumberland Warden Jim Whitehead said jamming would have no impact on prison operations because even employees are not permitted to have cell phones at the facility. Radios are used for internal communications. O’Malley said the state uses all legal efforts, including phone-sniffing dogs and body-orifice scanning equipment, to keep cell phones out of state prisons.
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Baltimore Sun on Feb 16, 2010 - Gov. Martin O'Malley will put the force of his office today behind a plan that would enable struggling homeowners to negotiate better mortgage terms before banks can take their houses. The governor is scheduled to testify before Maryland House and Senate committees on legislation that would create a mandatory mediation process for owners at risk of losing their homes and require lenders to prove they tried to modify a borrower's loan before foreclosing.
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WJZ on Feb 02, 2010 - Video: Gov. O'Malley sat down with Vic Carter to discuss a year filled with tough decisions.
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The Daily Record on Feb 01, 2010 - Video: Gov. Martin O'Malley stopped by the Daily Record newsroom for ongoing Newsmakers series.
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Baltimore Sun on Jan 27, 2010 - General Motors Corp. has chosen its White Marsh plant for a new effort to build electric motors, and on Tuesday it laid out plans for an expansion that will generate 180 much-needed jobs and provide a boost for the hard-hit manufacturing sector. The automaker, which would become the first car company to produce its own electric motors, announced that it plans to start making the devices in 2013. The company is investing $246 million, including state funds and federal stimulus money, to construct a new 40,000-square-foot facility next to the site where workers now build transmissions, including some that go into hybrid vehicles. "It provides not only stability for the plant, but a future," said Gov. Martin O'Malley.
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The Daily Record on Jan 26, 2010 - Homeowners would be able to request face-to-face meetings with their lenders to find alternatives to foreclosure under a proposal announced Monday as part of Gov. Martin O’Malley’s legislative agenda. The governor’s legislative package also includes a slate of business and green energy initiatives as O’Malley has made job creation his primary focus during the legislative session.
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Baltimore Sun on Jan 25, 2010 - In Maryland, we are addressing the challenge of cyber security head-on. For our state, meeting this challenge also happens to be a tremendous job creation opportunity. With a unique combination of assets, including our skilled work force and our vast resources of federal facilities, academic institutions, industry strength and intellectual capital, Maryland is answering the president's call to action to defend and protect our nation's information networks while simultaneously creating jobs. We must ensure that our citizens -- the college student doing homework on a laptop computer in a dorm, the online shopper, the small business owner managing inventory online, or the CEO overseeing a multibillion-dollar corporation -- are aware, informed and educated about the risks inherent in a global online community. Together, with our partners in the private sector and all levels of government, Maryland is answering President Obama's call to action to not only ensure the security of our digital infrastructure now, and in the future, but to also ensure economic prosperity with thousands of new cyber security posts.
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Baltimore Sun on Jan 22, 2010 - More arrests are being made using DNA, thanks to expanded collection and processing in Maryland. State Police Superintendent Col. Terrence B. Sheridan and Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III announced that the state's DNA database had assisted in the arrests of 101 people for serious crimes committed in Baltimore over the past three years, including 68 for rapes or sex offenses and 13 for murder. Officials said Gov. Martin O'Malley has made DNA collection a priority for his administration. In 2008, state police cleared a backlog of more than 24,000 untested and uncollected DNA samples from convicted felons, the result of additional funding and staffing.
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Baltimore Sun on Jan 13, 2010 - Gov. Martin O'Malley will push legislators to pass a package of renewable energy initiatives that would boost solar production, make the state more attractive for offshore wind development and offer incentives for purchasing electric cars. The proposals, which O'Malley detailed in an interview Tuesday on the eve of the General Assembly's 90-day legislative session, are designed to put Maryland on course to generate 20 percent of its electricity via renewable sources in about a decade. That was a goal the legislature set two years ago, and comes as President Barack Obama is set to promote green jobs at an appearance in Lanham today.
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Baltimore Business Journal on Jan 12, 2010 - Gov. Martin O’Malley announced an ambitious plan Monday to establish Maryland as the “epicenter” for the federal government’s cyber security initiative. It’s a push that could bring as many as 28,000 jobs to Maryland as the Pentagon and its array of government agencies seeks to insulate the nation from hackers and other computerized threats. O’Malley, speaking at a cyber security summit in Montgomery County, outlined plans to create a national cyber security center and boost marketing to lure defense contractors here, especially those in the fast-growing field of informatics.
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The effects of the nation's economic hardship are hitting Maryland hard. We're fighting every day to protect Maryland’s families during these tough economic times. We’re also working every day to make sure that government and its programs work for people.
