Is Maryland Playing Favorites for St. Mary’s College?

A reader of The Washington Post raises questions about favoritism for St. Mary’s College of Maryland, along with the expenditures there. “Gov. Martin O’Malley said last month, ‘We are going to stop encroachment on our precious shoreline.’ Oh yes, you refused a request to look into St. Mary’s College building on the river’s edge. And the governor now plans to spend $50-million to preserve the Chesapeake Bay shoreline…. Boy, is that an oxymoron — the college trying to preserve the river shoreline after it built almost on the river’s edge. Many county residents who try to build a doghouse within 1,000 feet of the shoreline (18 percent of St. Mary’s County land is involved) will go through hell in the approval process and probably be denied. A double standard?”