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Aerial view of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. Stock.adobe.com Photo by jonbilous. Written by Anirban Basu The author is chairman and CEO of Sage Policy Group in Baltimore. Governor – I met him once and was very impressed. Like many people, my immediate reaction was to conclude that I had just met the future President of the United States. You will be the first president of Maryland. Virginia has produced eight. I would love to see Marylanders at the White House. It would add to our state’s already long list of accomplishments. You have the resume, the charisma, the incredible memory for…

With youth justice at the center of this session, a bill proposed by Republicans would ban students who have been convicted or sentenced for rape or other sex offenses from attending school. There is. State Sen. Johnny Salling and state Rep. Nino Mangione met last month with two mothers in Harford and Baltimore counties who say their young children were sexually abused by a teenage boy attending a Baltimore City high school. The bill was then submitted in opposition. On Wednesday morning, a mother joined Salling in a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Proceedings Committee. Salling said she was first…

Americans are dismayed by the partisan nature of our country. But there are still surprisingly democratic and nonpartisan spaces in this country. It’s a public library. Libraries serve every American who visits them from all of the nation’s diverse socioeconomic, racial, and geographic communities. It’s an incredible job done by humble, hard-working people. Currently, there is a bill in Annapolis that protects library staff’s ability to meet the needs of all patrons. House Bill 785, entitled the Freedom to Read Act, codifies the fundamental mission of libraries to provide access for all. Additionally, it establishes principles for responsible library collection…

Maryland is facing a housing crisis. And it’s not just hurting some of us, it’s hurting all of us. Maryland currently ranks as the 7th most expensive state to live in, largely due to rising housing costs. Nine out of 10 Marylanders say housing affordability is a major barrier, and one-third of Marylanders ages 18 to 34 say they have access to affordable housing. He says he is considering leaving the state due to a lack of available housing. This crisis is not just affecting individual lives and livelihoods. It also reduces our economic power. According to the Comptroller’s Economic…

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with WHRO’s Virginia Center for Investigative Reporting. Sign up for Dispatchs to get articles like this as soon as they’re published. The Virginia General Assembly approved the creation of a statewide commission to investigate the role of public universities in displacing black communities. This Congressional action marks a milestone for a budding national movement seeking compensation for families dispossessed by university expansion. This follows a 2023 series by ProPublica and the WHO’s Virginia Center for Investigative Reporting that highlighted how colleges across the country uprooted tens of thousands of…

The Maryland Lottery announced Tuesday that a Silver Spring woman won $5 million on a lottery scratch-off ticket. The $50 scratch-off was part of the Maryland Lottery’s $5 million CASH game, which began on February 19th. The winner will purchase their ticket at Great Plaza Liquor in District Heights, Prince George’s County, and the store will receive a $5,000 bonus for selling the top prize scratch-off. [Source of the Spring] MoCo residents get free Lyft rides on St. Patrick’s Day The Washington Regional Alcohol Program’s St. Patrick’s Day Sober Ride Program will be offering free Lyft rides to people in…

Arts Center of Orange: The “Ekphrastic Exhibition,” featuring work by artists from the Farnew Farm Artist Circle and the Virginia Poetry Society, is on display through March 30. Participating poets are Steve Butcher, Stacey Clare, Cherryl T. Cooley, and Jay. Deitch, Kathy Haley, Michelle O’Hearn, David Anthony Sam, Julia Travers, Jenna Vesey, Ellen Penn Berry. Participating artists include Lee Barker, John Berry, Pat Brodowski, Ellen Copland, Kitty Dodd, Lee Dowers, V-Ann Evans, Jane Goodman, Kate Krauss, John Perry, and Claudia Wisdom. -Good, this is Trish Crowe. The exquisite embroidery “Fingertip Awe: Miao Art” supervised by Li Zeng is on display…

A dozen young men standing on a beach with the towering Chesapeake Bay Bridge in the background may not seem grand or monumental, but hearing about the entire group’s work in the state park makes it easy to imagine the Maryland Conservation Corps’ The scale becomes clear.Forty members and eight crew leaders work on natural resource management projects in state parks across Maryland. On this particular day, three parks benefited from the workforce, according to Corps Chief Sara Marcinak.Assateague State Park on the Eastern Shore will have 4,000 dune grasses planted in the ground to restore the shoreline and protect…

Virginia regularly conducts mathematical audits of its elections to ensure there were no major malfunctions in the ballots or the machines that scan and tabulate them. Audit of the state’s 2020 presidential election Confirmed President Joe Biden’s lopsided victory over former President Donald Trump in Virginia has almost complete statistical certainty. But under new language included in the budget bill passed by the Democratic General Assembly, there will be no such audit in the 2024 presidential election. Audit overwhelmingly confirms Virginia election results Although the term “audit” is often used by conservative activists to mean an intensive investigation into questionable…

The Virginia General Assembly proposed an external overhaul of the state’s special education dispute resolution system in its budget. Compliance concerns I was raised by the federal government and my parents. Lawmakers are proposing $100,000 be earmarked for the Virginia Commission on Youth Affairs to hire a consultant to investigate a dispute resolution system that has been criticized for failing to monitor and respond to complaints against school districts. . The governor plans to complete his review of the state budget, including the funding request, when lawmakers return to Richmond on April 17. Virginia lawmakers consider sweeping changes to special…