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As a small business owner who employs and serves Maryland residents, I am eager to see the Time to Care Act of 2019 (HB…
Back in the 1980s, when this story began, Maryland had at best an average system of public higher education. When experts rated how states…
In 1990, the Chesapeake Bay was in the midst of a visible pollution crisis. Fish were dying from toxins in the Potomac River. Baltimore’s…
As incredible as it sounds, we’re already fast approaching the milestone year of 2020. Many in our region will be using the occasion to…
Though few Marylanders may realize it, their lives are better off today because former Maryland Gov. Harry R. Hughes, who died March 13 at…
While there has been widespread media coverage and political exuberance about the expected passage of the Fight for $15 bill to increase the minimum…
In the grammar of politics, the election of two-term Gov. Harry R. Hughes was a predicate. It evolved on conditions and “ifs.” If Blair…
On any given morning in Annapolis, if you walk around State Circle or Church Circle, blinking into the sunlight, you can temporarily convince yourself…
There is a moral to the story of House Bill 1052 which, if passed by the Maryland General Assembly and enacted into law, would…
In the drive to raise Maryland’s minimum wage to $15 per hour, a lot of misinformation has been circulating, much of it about the…