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Lawmakers, if you care about giving kids a fair chance to mature into productive, responsible adults support new legislation that will help achieve this.
Many people assume that we already have a right to a clean and healthy environment. Sadly, that is not true in practice.
The Inclusive Attire Act focuses on protecting religious freedom in school sports. Will Maryland’s lawmakers support bigotry or equality?
This writer has suggestions on how the county can better spend its taxpayer dollars to help residents struggling through the pandemic.
The option for remote participation was an extraordinary expansion of democracy.
Maryland needs to join the national movement and ban gasoline-powered leaf blowers. HB934 would do that.
In 2022, the fight for a living wage should be a fight for more so folks can make ends meet.
A Prince George’s Board of Education member offers solutions to improve the board’s structure and make it more accountable to those it serves.
Frank DeFilippo offers a brief history of earlier efforts to curtail or eliminate the Block — all failed, or greatly eased, with the usual winks and nods.
The chair of the Public Service Commission takes issue with an earlier commentary from the Office of People’s Counsel on planning for the electric grid of the future.