OPINION: With Primary Over, Time to Look Ahead
With the field winnowed down, voters can assess the remaining six candidates.
Maryland’s primary has come and gone, and focus can now turn toward the general election. Here in Howard County, our candidates for Board of Education have been winnowed from 14 to six—Ann De Lacy, Jackie Scott, David Gertler, Janet Siddiqui, Bob Ballinger and Ellen Giles. We’re halfway through the Hunger Games, with the initial skirmishes over and the obvious pretenders ousted from the race, so it’s time to turn a tougher eye on the remaining candidates. Most importantly, the general election will have a Damoclean sword hanging over it that was largely ignored in the primary—the looming teacher pension shift. Shifting half the cost of teacher pensions from the state to the counties is now virtually assured, although the budget is not yet …
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