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Regarding Gail Weiss’s Letter to the Editor of Sept. 18, I am sorry that Ms. Weiss was offended by being called “anti-immigrant.” Unfortunately, she…
Transportation issues are rarely about getting from here to there. Usually they involve what land will be developed and who’s going to get rich….
A landmark lawsuit that has cost the State of Maryland millions in legal fees and national controversy has an opportunity to be settled, and…
I am disappointed that the Maryland Matters editor is insisting on inaccurately referring to a recent event as “anti-immigrant.” A rally in Montgomery County,…
We share common experiences in life that connect most of us. Getting our first job. Starting to take responsibility for making a difference in…
Policing, or civic peacekeeping, is dangerous work and in serious disrepute. Any day in a cop’s life on the streets can mean a bullet…
Over the last decade, Maryland’s political establishment repeatedly expanded corporate gambling in our state, promising the tax proceeds would swell funding for public education….
Climate change poses an existential threat to our Bay, so I was shocked to read the Chesapeake Bay Foundation calling to slam the brakes…
Tens of thousands of retired State employees from every county in Maryland and from seven other states, along with thousands of retirement-eligible current state…
Comptroller Peter Franchot, on a continuous loop of shameless self-promotion for governor, might suffer from the Louis L. Goldstein syndrome. Or curse. Goldstein, for…