West Virginia Offers a Wakeup Call for Maryland’s Economy

West Virginia offers a wakeup call for Maryland’s economy

The head of a long-standing company in Maryland recently received a letter. It wasn’t from a vendor or a customer — it was from a neighboring state.  The message was direct: “We want your company here.”  That company, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business based in the Baltimore-Washington corridor, provides technology and engineering services to the Department of Defense and commercial markets. The letter came from West Virginia — one …

West Virginia legislator sends letter hoping to lure Maryland tech businesses fed up over new tax

A West Virginia legislative leader has been actively seeking to attract businesses from Maryland to move to his state in response to the tax increases enacted by Gov. Wes Moore and the Maryland General Assembly. Del. Gary Howell, a Mineral County Republican who is chairman of the West Virginia House Economic Development Committee, wrote in a letter to targeted Maryland technology companies, which Spotlight on Maryland reviewed on Tuesday, that h…