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How can Maryland's budget crisis be fixed?

Gov. Wes Moore speaks at MACO in Dec. Photo: video screenshot Andy Gibson.
Gov. Wes Moore speaks at MACO in Dec. Photo: video screenshot Andy Gibson.

Maryland is staring at its worst budget crisis in 20 years. Decades ago the General Assembly set up a “Spending Affordability Committee” to track state spending and revenues and ensure spending does not rise faster than the state’s economy is growing. We talk with the Senate co-chair of that committee, Democrat Jim Rosapepe, who represents parts of Prince George’s and Anne Arundel counties.

Sheilah Kast is the host of On The Record, Monday-Friday, 9:30-10:00 am.
WYPR's Morning Edition news anchor Ashley Sterner serves up the latest Maryland news and weather every weekday morning, delightfully interspersed with the occasional snarky comment.
Melissa Gerr is a Senior Producer for On the Record. She started in public media at Twin Cities Public Television in St. Paul, Minn., where she is from, and then worked as a field producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting in Portland. She made the jump to audio-lover in Baltimore as a digital media editor at Mid-Atlantic Media and Laureate Education, Inc. and as a field producer for "Out of the Blocks." Her beat is typically the off-beat with an emphasis on science, culture and things that make you say, 'Wait, what?'