The Baltimore Convention Center is a convention and exhibition hall located in downtown Baltimore,Maryland. The center is a municipal building owned and operated by the City of Baltimore.
Robert Leroy Ehrlich Jr. is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 60th Governor of Maryland from 2003 to 2007. A Republican,Ehrlich represented Maryland's 10th legislative district in the House of Delegates from 1987 to 1995 and Maryland's 2nd Congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003.
Martin Joseph O'Malley is an American lawyer and former politician who served as the 61st Governor of Maryland from 2007 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party,he was the 48th Mayor of Baltimore from 1999 to 2007.
Located on the Inner Harbor of Baltimore,Maryland,the Baltimore World Trade Center is the world's tallest regular pentagonal-based skyscraper. It was designed by the architectural firm Pei Cobb Freed &Partners,with the principal architects being Henry N. Cobb and Pershing Wong.
The Red Line is a proposed east–west transit line for Baltimore,Maryland. The project was granted federal approval to enter the preliminary engineering phase and the Maryland Transit Administration had spent roughly $300 million in planning,design and land acquisition,until Maryland Governor Larry Hogan declared on June 25,2015 that he would not provide state funds for the project,instead shifting $736 million of state funding to roads in suburban areas. The Red Line had been projected to cost roughly $1.6 billion,$900 million of which would have been guaranteed federal funding.
Anthony Gregory Brown is an American lawyer and politician serving as the attorney general of Maryland. He also served as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 4th congressional district from 2017 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,his district covered most of the majority-black precincts in Prince George's County,as well as a sliver of Anne Arundel County.
Thomas Edward Perez is an American politician and attorney who served as the Chair of the Democratic National Committee from February 2017 until January 2021. Perez was previously Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights (2009–2013) and United States Secretary of Labor (2013–2017). He was a GU Politics Fellow at the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service in 2021.
Kriselda Valderrama-Lobo is an American politician who represents District 26 in the Maryland House of Delegates.
Kirill Reznik is a Ukrainian-born American politician from Maryland and a member of the Democratic Party. He was previously a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from District 39 from 2007 to 2023,resigning to become the Assistant Secretary for Inter-Departmental Data Integration for the Maryland Department of Human Services.
Alec Ross is an American technology policy expert who was Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the duration of her term as Secretary of State. After leaving the Department of State in 2013 he joined the School of International and Public Affairs,Columbia University as a Senior Fellow. Ross is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Industries of the Future and The Raging 2020s:Companies,Countries,People –and the Fight for Our Future. The Industries of the Future has been translated to twenty-four languages,and was named the 2016 Book of the Year by the TriBeCa Film Festival's Disruptive Innovation Foundation. Ross was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Johns Hopkins University. He is a distinguished visiting professor at the University of Bologna Business School. He is also a Board Partner at Amplo,a global venture capital firm.
Maryland's leading industries by employment are health care and social assistance,state and local government,retail trade,and professional and technical services. Maryland's Gross State Product (GSP) was $295.4 billion in 2010. The Government sector produced $52.1 billion and accounted for 18 percent of Maryland's GSP in 2009. Federal government,including military and civilian,accounted for slightly more than half at just over $27 billion,while state and local government combined for nearly $25 billion. The Fort George G. Meade military installation,which includes employees of the National Security Agency,is the state's biggest employer at 44,540. The largest private sector industry is real estate with $48.4 billion,or 17 percent of economic activity. Large private employers in Maryland include Black &Decker,Legg Mason,Lockheed Martin,Marriott International,ZeniMax Media,McCormick &Company,Perdue Farms,General Motors,IBM,Northrop Grumman,and Verizon.
The Maryland Department of Commerce is a government agency in the state of Maryland in the United States. Although it was originally founded in 1884,the department came to be recognized as the Department of Commerce in 2015.
Otis France Rolley is the former planning director of Baltimore,serving from July 2003 until 2007. He was a Democratic candidate for mayor of Baltimore in 2011.
Raymond V. Haysbert Sr. was an American business executive and civil rights leader during the second half of the 20th century in Baltimore,Maryland. During World War II,he served in Africa and Italy with the renowned Tuskegee Airmen. Haysbert joined Baltimore-based Parks Sausage Company in 1952,becoming CEO as it grew into one of the largest black-owned U.S. businesses. In later years,he was active in politics and the American civil rights movement. Haysbert was chairman of the Greater Baltimore Urban League when he died at age 90 in 2010.
Aruna Miller is an American politician who is serving as the tenth lieutenant governor of Maryland since 2023. Miller,a Democrat,is a former member of the Maryland House of Delegates representing Legislative District 15 in Montgomery County. Miller ran for Congress in 2018 to represent Maryland's 6th congressional district,and lost the Democratic primary to David Trone by 9.3%,with 30.7% of the vote compared to Trone's 40.0%.
Stephen S. Hershey Jr. is an American Republican politician currently serving in his 2nd term in the Maryland State Senate,representing Legislative District 36,Maryland's Upper Eastern Shore which includes Caroline,Cecil,Kent &Queen Anne's Counties.
The 'World Trade Center Institute' (WTCI) operates as a private,non-profit,and non-political membership organization located in the Baltimore World Trade Center building on the Inner Harbor of Baltimore,Maryland. Financed in cooperation with area businesses and the State of Maryland,WTCI’s mission is to drive the growth of Maryland’s global business community. WTCI is one of the 320 members of the World Trade Center Association (WTCA),which operates WTCs in 96 countries around the world.
Question 6 is a referendum that appeared on the general election ballot for the U.S. state of Maryland to allow voters to approve or reject the Civil Marriage Protection Act—a bill legalizing same-sex marriage passed by the General Assembly in 2012. The referendum was approved by 52.4% of voters on November 6,2012 and thereafter went into effect on January 1,2013.
Aris Melissaratos is a Romanian-born Greek-American engineer,industrialist,aerospace executive,investor,philanthropist,university administrator,author and former government official in Maryland. He served as Secretary of Business and Economic Development of Maryland from 2003 to 2007,in the administration of Governor Robert Ehrlich.
The 2016 presidential campaign of Martin O'Malley,the 61st Governor of Maryland,was formally launched on May 30,2015 as Governor O'Malley announced his intention to seek the Democratic Party nomination for the presidency of the United States in the 2016 presidential election. On February 1,2016,he suspended his campaign after a poor showing in the Iowa caucuses.
