That's why I left. I have seen what so many years of Democrats running the place has done to it. Turned Baltimore into a dump.
It was a Democratic Governor (Shafer) who led the whole Baltimore revitalization effort that gave us the Inner Harbor, the Aquarium, Camden Yards, and the Ravens. Granted, this glosses over the problems of the inner city, but the same sort of problems exist in poor urban areas across the country.
Gov. Glendening (a Dem) turned the University of Maryland from one of the worst state universities in the nation to one of the best. The school has been forced to drastically hike tuition under our new Republican Governor, who is taking the failure of his slots proposal out on everyone.
And Montgomery County (where I live) has arguably the best public school system in the country. I believe it is currently represented in the state legislature by 31 Dems and 1 Republicans.
I don't like Ehrlic, but it is NOT his fault that the tuition at UMD is going up.
You're absolutely right about the public schools in Montgomery -- a solid group of schools, having attended some of them myself.
Anne Arundel County is in much worse shape -- partially because we have an appointed schoolboard, not an elected one, which I believe makes a big difference.
