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Google is everybody’s rap sheet. Grand juries usually launch with a paper trail and people wearing badges riffling through swatches of newspaper clippings, or,…
For nearly a decade, CASA, ACLU of Maryland, advocates and hundreds of immigrant families across the state have fought to end Maryland’s partnership with…
The League of Women Voters believes that voting is a fundamental citizen right that must be guaranteed. This is why we have been working…
Baltimore City Public Schools are failing their 80,000 students at an exorbitantly-high cost. State and local taxpayers spend nearly $16,000 per pupil on education,…
If you eat, you should care about farm workers. Skyrocketing numbers of COVID-19 cases at meatpacking facilities and poultry processing plants have routinely left…
In 2019, 167 people died in drunk-driving crashes in Maryland, representing nearly a third of all traffic deaths. That’s 167 of our mothers, fathers,…
The override of the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future was a victory for Black, Latinx and immigrant students, teachers and advocates across the state that…
In 2021, Delegate Lily Qi introduced House Bill 658, a bill that engages in Statism and Crony-Capitalism. In defense of her bill, Delegate Qi…
A few days ago the House of Delegates passed House Bill 414 (Southern Maryland Rapid Transit Project-Funding), sponsored by Del. Debra Davis (D-Charles). Dels….
I am a proud associate professor at Prince George’s Community College, and I support SB746/HB894, the bill that would give adjunct professors the right…