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Engineer: It’s indefensible to proceed with a $5B investment without first addressing all the credible questions raised about the transparency of the traffic modeling used to justify the project.
This past legislative session, the Maryland Nurses Association supported a measure that would have ensured there would be a nurse in every school.
An Environmental Human Rights Amendment would give the state and local governments a constitutional obligation to protect Maryland’s air, water, lands, wildlife and ecosystem.
The vice-chair of the Maryland Minority Cannabis Business Association warns that more effort will be needed to ensure that a recreational cannabis industry is racially diverse and equitable.
Ongoing Chesapeake Bay clean water efforts expose disparities in the application of environmental laws.
A University of Maryland undergraduate student writes to raise awareness of hydrocephalus, a condition they acquired in their early teenage years.
The head of Maryland’s state medical society writes that a contract dispute between Johns Hopkins and insurer CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield highlights the need for health insurance reform.
A Maryland doctor and nurse-midwife urge candidates and voters to support access to complete health care, including abortion services.
One decision with profound long-term implications is currently at the discretion of Gov. Larry Hogan and his transportation leadership, and it cries out for an immediate course correction.
Originalism — with analysis that’s at best selective, and worst fatally flawed — has produced judicial opinions devoid of any relationship to the U.S. Constitution.