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A significant number of Baltimore City residents and their politicians are fighting a pitched battle to prevent Johns Hopkins University and Hospital from gaining…
Last year, bipartisan legislation created the Task Force to Study State Alcohol Regulation, Enforcement, Safety, and Public Health, comprised of health-related officials and advocates,…
The Elephant in the Room: A New Maryland Senate President in the Near Future When longtime Maryland Senate President Mike Miller (D-Calvert) announced his…
It might seem a futile exercise to try and pick among the many and never-ending horrible things that Donald Trump has done since he…
President Trump, in his State of the Union, laid down the gauntlet, intoning: “American will never be a Socialist country.” His remarks, which presage…
Why is Maryland’s clean energy law subsidizing wealthy out-of-state corporate polluters? One puzzling question in Maryland climate policy is why lawmakers insist that residents…
This article originally appeared in the Florida Phoenix, our sister nonprofit news website. It was compiled by teacher Jeff Foster and written by Isabel,…
A few years ago, we co-founded Power52 Foundation, an organization aimed at providing training and skills to historically underserved populations and preparing them for…
Chief Judge Mary Ellen Barbera of the Maryland Court of Appeals delivered the quadrennial State of the Judiciary address earlier this month. She described…
Thousands of Maryland residents work in the state’s growing solar and wind industries. With Gov. Larry Hogan’s leadership, the Old Line State can snowball…