Audits rarely elicit smiles. But today I received good news regarding an annual federal government audit of DHR’s Child Support Enforcement Administration. The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services recently completed a Data Reliability Review of Maryland’s performance i

One of the perks of being a member of the governor’s cabinet is that you are assigned a pretty good seat for the annual State of the State address in Annapolis. Gov. Martin O’Malley’s speech yesterday recapped many of the administration’s top accomplishments while outlining an aggress

It’s all too easy to look at a monthly or annual report and reasonably conclude, hey, we’re doing a pretty good job.  For example, last year, DHR’s Child Support Enforcement Administration, or CSEA, collected and dispersed a record $544 million in child support to families. This was a