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Here’s hoping the Easter Bunny delivers my Christmas gift. Santa Claus tried by mail. My daughter shipped the package in mid-December, priority mail, two-day…
With Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday just in the rearview mirror and most of the 2021 Maryland General Assembly Legislative Session ahead, I cannot…
Some K-12 public school districts have not been making a good-faith effort to provide their students with the best available outsourced online learning options….
Following the 1960’s riots and curfews in cities across America, variations of this question remained a refrain on TV for decades. This simple yet…
The following is an open letter to the Montgomery County Council. Dear Councilmembers, One of the primary functions of our county council is its…
As the COVID-19 infection rate increases and the death toll continues to climb, there is hope that the availability of multiple vaccines portends an…
As Maryland’s delegates and senators settle in for the 2021 legislative session, we should all be urging them to override Gov. Larry Hogan’s veto…
On March 30, 2020 Governor Hogan issued a stay-at-home order to protect Marylanders from the emerging coronavirus. The executive order was rolled out with…
We are almost there. At 12:01 p.m. on Wednesday, Joseph R. Biden will become the 46th president of the United States. Donald Trump, and the…
It’s a durable article of political lore that people in public office are pretty much like the people who elect them. There’s a fleeting…