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I want to share some personal thoughts about the video that we’ve all seen by now of the murder of George Floyd, an African…
On May 30, the superintendent of Anne Arundel County Public Schools, Dr. George Arlotto, released a statement addressing the killing of George Floyd and…
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the grossly inadequate protection of Maryland residents in nursing homes where over 50% of the deaths from the novel…
There is a looming fatal flaw in the Maryland State Department of Education recovery plan for public schools during the coronavirus crisis. It is…
School-aged children are high on the list of Marylanders sacrificing for the greater good during the COVID-19 pandemic. Kept out of school for weeks,…
One of the races on the 2020 primary ballot in Maryland has voters vote directly on delegates to party national conventions. In the 2016…
A talk with Doc Trump about the coronavirus pandemic is like a visit to a good psychiatrist: Nothing very much happens, but it’s supposed…
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, I have been concerned about the possibility of infection at the Prince George’s County detention center and…
I have spent 30 years investigating acts of police misconduct, including everything from false arrest to murder. There are bad cops who commit these…
In Wisconsin last month, voters lined up for hours, risking COVID-19 contagion and worse, to elect a member of the state Supreme Court. The…