County leaders look for options as budgets get tighter

By: Bryan P. Sears

Outlets: Maryland Matters

Published: August 14, 2026

Words: 791

Last Updated: 4 days, 8 hours ago

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County leaders said they need more options to help weather mounting budget pressures driven by reductions in state aid coupled with costs shifted to local governments and mandated education spending.

Those same leaders are understandably edgy as they wait for signs of how state government — the bigger dog on the porch — will resolve its own fiscal crisis. Past solutions have frequently come at the expense of county governments who rely on billions in …

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