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Redistricting for Congress, General Assembly begins

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Maryland Reporter - By Megan Poinski - Jul. 07 (News) - The Governor’s Redistricting Advisory Committee will have several public hearings throughout the state this summer in order to give people a chance to give their input on where lines should be drawn for congressional and state legislative districts.

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Almost 3,000 Md. firms, firm locations closed in 2009

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Jamie Smith Hopkins - Jun. 30 (News) - Nearly 3,000 businesses or business locations shut down in Maryland in recessionary 2009, the Census Bureau said Thursday. The new figures, which track employers of all sizes, also show a loss of 110,000 private-sector jobs from March 2008 to March 2009 — a bigger hit than earlier estimates from the U.S. Department of Labor had suggested. The Labor Department measured the private-sector drop at 83,000 jobs.

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Census: Employees logging same amount of hours | Baltimore Business Journal

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Business Journal - By Daniel J. Sernovitz - Jun. 23 (News) - If you feel like you’re spending more time in the office than at home, new findings from the U.S. Census Bureau suggest you’re an exception.

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Rise in single fathers defies historic trend

Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Yeganeh June Torbati - May. 30 (News) - According to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the rise in the number of Maryland families led by single fathers in the past decade outpaced the rise in single-mother families for the first time since at least 1970, as far back as the state data is available.

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Follow Up: What Does Majority Minority Really Mean?

Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Dundalk Patch - By Allison Eatough - May. 30 (Opinion) - Based on census figures, Maryland will have a majority of minority residents in 10 years. Why is it important to document these demographic changes in Maryland? Is it important? Does it affect anything tangible in our culture? If so, how?

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Reflecting a national trend, Maryland's population grays

Thu, 26 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Yeganeh June Torbati - May. 26 (News) - Driven by a sizable baby boomer population nearing retirement age, Maryland, like the rest of the nation, grew older in the past decade, but Baltimore bucked the trend, attracting more young adults as the number of its middle-age and retiree residents shrank, according to new census figures.

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‘Right-sizing’ Baltimore

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Record - By Danny Jacobs - Apr. 19 (News Analysis) - On a day Baltimore (and beyond) remembers William Donald Schaefer, perhaps it’s fitting a comprehensive, statistical report about the city he loved was released.

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Maryland: Not a Retirement Destination, But Maybe It Should Be

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Arbutus Patch - By Denise Cabrera, Lisa Rossi - Apr. 09 (News) - Maryland is expensive, has high taxes, crime and bad weather but it can still be a great place to retire, state officials say. Besides, they point out, Florida isn’t perfect either.

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Census Shows Minorities Bring Growth to Maryland Population

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Dundalk Patch - By Allison Eatough - Apr. 03 (News) - Based on census figures, Maryland will have a majority of minority residents in 10 years.

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Report: Md. Hispanic population far exceeded estimates

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Yeganeh June Torbati - Mar. 31 (News) - The Hispanic population's growth in Maryland and several other states far outpaced previous estimates, according to an analysis of census data released this week. In Maryland, the 2010 census counted about 46,000 more Hispanic individuals than the Census Bureau had estimated were in the state, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan group that studies the country's Hispanic population.

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Baltimore council redistricting plan sparks controversy

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Julie Scharper - Mar. 23 (News) - As the deadline for redrawing City Council districts nears, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's plan is being criticized by some council members, community leaders and residents who chafe at the boundary changes and say the new districts could hurt the political prospects of blacks and Hispanics.

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Councilwoman Fights to Keep Neighborhood

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

North Baltimore Patch - By Adam Bednar - Mar. 22 (News) - Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke is holding out hope that she'll keep at least part of the Pen Lucy neighborhood in her district.

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State's Prison Inmates Counted

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Jenny Glick, Associated Press - Mar. 22 (News) - Maryland has finished counting prison inmates to comply with a new state law that changes how they are counted for legislative redistricting purposes.

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Feds Foil Md. Redistricting Plan to Count Inmates by Former Home

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Capital News Service - By Steve Kilar - Mar. 22 (News) - A federal roadblock has stopped Maryland short of counting all prison inmates at their pre-incarceration addresses in order to draw political boundaries.

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Md. transplants seen as helping to drive growth of York County, Pa.

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Yeganeh June Torbati - Mar. 21 (News) - Long considered a Baltimore exurb, York County has seen its population swell 14 percent since 2000. The southern Pennsylvania county — a mix of urban, suburban and rural geography and home to many Baltimore-area commuters — grew faster than Maryland as a whole and twice as rapidly as Baltimore County in that time, according to new population figures from the 2010 census.

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Maryland transplants seen as helping to drive growth of York County, Pa.

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

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Maryland can balance budget without destroying services

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Jamie Rankin - Mar. 18 (Opinion) - To build on this success and propel ourselves through the recession caused by the subprime mortgage meltdown, we have to continue strategic investment in public education, public transportation and public health. This is the proven high road to progress for all Marylanders.

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Baltimore: the view from 2021

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Marta H. Mossburg - Mar. 15 (Opinion) - The declining population has meant lower revenue from property and other taxes over the decade at the same time the costs to overhaul the city's crumbling infrastructure and to pay retirement benefits have skyrocketed. Demographics don't help. More people are retired from the city workforce and collecting benefits than are currently working.

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Downtown Baltimore: Filling up with residents

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - Mar. 14 (Editorial) - Baltimore may have lost another 30,000 people during the last decade, but in one key measure of urban vitality, we're holding strong. Downtown Baltimore is the eighth-densest metropolitan core in the United States, with 41,289 residents living within a one-mile radius of Pratt and Light streets.

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Balto. Co. homeless count drops slightly from 2010 high

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Mary Gail Hare - Mar. 13 (News) - Baltimore County's annual homeless count found 881 people without a permanent place to stay, a slight decline from last year, while surveyors found 291 single- and two-parent families.

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An international city

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - Feb. 20 (Editorial) - The Census Bureau reported recently what many people have long suspected: Over the last decade, the growth of Maryland's population has largely been driven by Hispanics, who increasingly are settling in suburban areas of the state. The data don't say how many of them are immigrants, but it's a good bet that many are. At the same time, the report noted, the population of Baltimore City, which has been declining for decades, fell by another 30,000 residents since 2001 — more than half again as much as city officials had expected. The only reason the city's population didn't drop even faster was the surge in its Latino population, which doubled over the past decade.

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Census shows Baltimore’s population decline slowing

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Boston Globe - By William Selway - Feb. 20 (News) - Mike Tsamouras, the owner of a Baltimore bakery, watched his city shrink for five decades, leaving neighborhoods with rows of vacant homes, their marble steps leading to boarded-up doors.

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You Need More Than Charm

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Splice Today - By Frank A. DeFilippo - Feb. 14 (Opinion) - Census numbers are a form of autobiography: They tell us who we are, where we live and what we do. They also tell us how much money we’ll get and how much political power we’ll have, who’ll have it and who won’t. But most of all, they’re a travelogue about where we came from, and, going strictly by the new numbers, Maryland is a polyglot state if not a pocket-sized United Nations.

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Number of black-owned firms grows 61% in Baltimore area

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Lorraine Mirabella - Feb. 14 (News) - The number of black-owned businesses in the Baltimore area grew three times as fast as Baltimore-area firms as a whole between 2002 and 2007, statistics released last week by the U.S. Census Bureau show.

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8 things Baltimore learned from the census

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Brew - By Fern Shen - Feb. 10 (News Analysis) - It’s pretty tough when the best spin the mayor’s office can come up with is to note, as they did yesterday in an emailed statement, that “it’s the smallest population decline since the 1950s.”

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