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		<title>Hogan &#8216;State of the State&#8217; Gives Peanuts to Cecil County Road Aid; Tax Relief to Business,Veterans</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2015 23:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governor Larry Hogan delivered his first “state of the state” address on Wednesday 2/4/15, promising to reinstate some road aid to the counties—but the fiscal reality is that Cecil County might get just a few extra peanuts and not a substantive boost in state road and bridge repair aid that has been cut by over 90 percent in recent years. Hogan also promised some help for military, police and emergency responder retirees with a phase-in of income tax reductions on their retirement pensions. And, in fulfilling a campaign pledge, Hogan promised to seek repeal of the so-called “rain tax” imposed on Western Shore counties, but not Cecil County, to offset costs of dealing with storm water runoff that pollutes streams and the Chesapeake Bay. The new governor, who ran on a platform to make the state more “business-friendly,” also proposed revisions in the state’s “personal property” tax that is actually a business inventory tax and which has been cited by small business groups as a deterrent to new business location in the state. Of most significance to Cecil County was the new governor’s proposed revisions to his Fiscal 2016 budget—presented just a week ago and a few days after Hogan [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>O&#8217;Malley to Shore: &#8216;Flush You&#8217; or the $4 per Flush Mandate</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Cecil Times Special Report Gov. Martin O’Malley’s otherwise predictable State of the State speech Thursday had a surprise for many rural residents: a proposed ban on septic systems for new “major” housing developments. But the real shocker wasn’t in that speech: buried in the state’s Bay cleanup plan issued in December is a demand for owners of existing homes in the Bay’s “critical area” to install new, costly high-tech septic systems. Property owners in the “critical areas” are already under a 2009 state mandate requiring upgrades to the new nitrogen-removal systems if they build a new home or their existing septic system fails. But the state’s new Bay cleanup plan proposes extending the mandate to existing homes even if their current septic is fully functional. The septic proposals call to mind the exhortation of former Governor William Donald Schaefer, who once referred to the Eastern Shore as a “s***house” because voters did not support his re-election. In O’Malley’s more polite verbiage, the Eastern Shore seems to be an “outhouse” that must be replaced while urban areas can flush with impunity. In his speech to the General Assembly, Gov. O’Malley declared that “there is one area of reducing pollution where [&#8230;]]]></description>
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