"The conclusion that wind isn't working in Maryland is not a Wayne Rogers issue," said Wayne Rogers, trying to deflect any suggestion in today's story by Tom Pelton that politics might be playing a role in the effort to streamline Maryland's process for licensing wind turbines. But, go figure: Rogers is president of an energy company that has been trying for three years to place a series of wind mills atop a mountain in Western Maryland, a $55 million project. (Not that there's anything wrong with that!) But he's also former chairman of the Maryland Democratic Party and Martin O'Malley made him co-chairman of the transition team that issued a report on Maryland's energy future. (One of its conclusions was that there was too much red tape in efforts to develop sources of renewable energy, like wind power.) I support wind power, and there probably is too much red tape involved in the approval process, and Maryland ought to get up to speed. But does all this sound a little cozy for you? What was that O'Malley said last year about special interests influencing energy regulation in the Ehrlich administration?  So what was he doing putting Rogers, a man trying to win state approval for a controversial project and get a bill passed in Annapolis, on his transition team?