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Tax Credits

Most Marylanders would agree economic supports should be available to all who need them. Seeing so many of our neighbors in need of additional…

Gov. Larry Hogan said recently there will be a “real battle for the soul of the Republican Party over the next couple of years.”…

Immigrant Rights

A few years ago, I asked the students in one of my Asian-American studies classes whether they had voted in the 2016 election. Most of…

Climate

It is far from an understatement to say that we are truly running out of time to take serious and bold action against the…

Since 2004, Maryland residents have invested millions of dollars in renewable energy sources as we strive to create new energy sector jobs and reduce…

The arctic blast in Texas and resulting power grid failures is unfortunately only the most recent of many severe weather events. Across Maryland, a…

Over more than half a decade, Maryland has lost more than 10,000 lives to overdose. Like so much else, the COVID-19 epidemic has exacerbated…

Digital Divide

When I taught English to middle schoolers last year, I saw the lives of almost 100 students change on March 12 as schools closed…

I read with interest the article in Maryland Matters last week describing Senator Hough’s crusade against waste-to-energy’s participation in the state renewable electricity portfolio…

I don’t remember exactly where and when I first met Jamie Raskin, but it had to have been in 1998, when his good friend…