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This should be a golden moment for Marilyn and Nick Mosby, Baltimore City’s very own power/glamour couple. Nick Mosby, a state delegate, is about…
There are many important decisions that Montgomery County voters will have to make in this election. We know that the presidency is top of…
The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg and the rapid nomination of a replacement with a different judicial philosophy should remind both those who…
Marylanders have every reason to be afraid of the coronavirus. They’re within spitting distance of the polluted Trump White House. Maryland stands at one…
2020 has been a year of moral reckoning. The Black Lives Matter protests of this summer raised awareness of structural racism in the United…
The COVID pandemic has presented us with a string of important medical questions to which we initially had no answers, such as: How contagious…
Let’s be grateful for U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. No kidding. Sure, many think she has been President Trump’s worst cabinet appointment, which…
During the past six months, we have seen Marylanders across the state step up to help friends and neighbors in need. Strangers are making…
I am the mother of Gary Hopkins Jr., who was killed by law enforcement in Prince George’s County. I am the co-founder and executive…
Not long ago, I participated in a “People’s Special Session,” a political action to demonstrate how elected leaders of the Maryland General Assembly could…