By Marc Korman. This past weekend I attended the Young Democrats of Maryland Convention. Among the speakers was the Maryland Democratic Party’s new chair, Susie Turnbull.A few ill informed pundits…
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Prince George’s Public Safety Cuts
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Fox 5 News is reporting that Prince George’s County Executive Jack Johnson is considering significant layoffs to the county’s police and fire departments. The layoffs are a result of the…
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More on the Death Penalty
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From Senator Rich Madaleno (D-18):Earlier today, the State Senate voted 34 to 13 in favor of the amended bill to restrict the use of the death penalty. The Senate rejected…
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Wheaton Library: What’s the 411? Part Two
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By Holly Olson. In Part Two of my series on the Wheaton Library, I discuss the arguments raised at the February 9th meeting in favor of renovating the library at…
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County Executive Ike Leggett, whose car was recently struck by a drunk driver, is writing the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in support of a bill intended to prevent…
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The Southern Poverty Law Center has named Help Save Maryland a “nativist/extremist group” – its only such designation in the Free State.SPLC, a civil rights organization devoted to combating white…
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Death Penalty Repeal Dies in the Senate
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The Maryland Senate has spoken: there will be no repeal of the death penalty this year. But we learned a few valuable things from the process.First, Senator Rich Madaleno (D-18)…
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By Kevin Gillogly. Now that’s a loaded question. In fact since this is my first blog piece in nine months, you might answer that is where Adam had me exiled…
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Wheaton Library: What’s the 411? Part One
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By Holly Olson. The crowd was angry and the mood was dark. If you got there late, and didn’t snag one of the 80 seats, tough luck – they didn’t…
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Pay and Go, a proposal to lift some of Montgomery County’s infrastructure requirements from developers, produced one of the biggest conflicts over development policy this county has ever seen. It…