Other Election Day News: Maryland's Biggest County Passes $15/hr Minimum Wage!
I took a break from poll-watching in VA yesterday morning, to head across the Potomac to watch my councilmembers vote to raise the minimum wage to $15 (gradually). Unless you live in Montgomery County,...
View ArticleWhat Yesterday’s Election Results Mean for Marylanders
Last night in Virginia, we saw what happens when Democrats show up to vote in record numbers to elect a governor. And we saw what happens when we stand united to repudiate the hate and fear that...
View ArticleAL-Sen: Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D. MD) Pushes GOP To Withdraw Endorsement For...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D. MD): Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D. MD) Earlier today, The Washington Post reported on serious and deeply-troubling conduct by Roy Moore,...
View ArticleMD-01 & VA-Sen: Rep. Andy Harris (R) & Corey Stewart (R) Still Back Roy Moore...
Thank you, Washington Post for keeping track of which Republicans still back Roy Moore (R. AL) for U.S. Senate. WaPo likes to cover Maryland and Virginia state politics. First off, Maryland:In...
View ArticleOR, CO & MD-Gov: Victory Fund Wants To Make These LGBTQ Champs Governors
Received this e-mail today from the LGBTQ Victory Fund:2018 is right around the corner, and Victory Fund is wasting no time. Here are our first THREE endorsements in governors’ races!We have a...
View ArticleGood news on climate change: New Jersey and Virginia likely to join regional...
(Cross posted at The Makeshift Academic)I’d like to break into the our regularly scheduled doom and gloom to note a small but important piece of good environmental news from last month that has poked...
View ArticleSupreme Court agrees to hear potentially landmark Maryland case over partisan...
On Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal from Republicans who are challenging Maryland’s Democratic-drawn congressional map as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. Since the 1980s,...
View ArticleThere Is No Joy In "Kushnerville" Slumlord Jared's A$$ Is Getting Sued --...
“Tenants in more than a dozen Baltimore-area rental complexes complain about a property owner who they say leaves their homes in disrepair, humiliates late-paying renters and often sues them when they...
View ArticleRetweets of Sen. Gillibrand's smackdown of Trump totally eclipse his original...
Circulation of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's tweet indicting Donald Trump's grotesque charge Tuesday morning that she would "do anything" for campaign contributions is running laps around the Don's...
View ArticleMaking Maryland Immigrant Friendly Again
On Tuesday, the most anti-immigrant Attorney General in history visited our state to bash immigrants and demoagogue on gang violence. We should all take the silence coming out of Governor Hogan as a...
View ArticleChristmas Spirit in Silver Spring
My cousin in Silver Spring, MD sent me this yesterday. Coupled with the tidings of great joy from Alabama, it’s shaping up to be a much more hopeful holiday season than last year.
View ArticleThe Pipeline under the Potomac: Gov. Hogan's Problem in a two dimensional...
Dear Citizens and Elected Officials, Governor Larry Hogan and Maryland Department of the Environment Secretary, Benjamin Grumbles: I attended the public hearing on December 19, 2017 in Hancock,...
View ArticleMy hope and silver lining for 2018
At some point I feel that the resistance will achieve victory and we will get Donald Trump out of office, win the House and Senate Back (definitely Senate). 2018 will be a big year for Democrats...
View ArticlePaid sick leave and paid family leave gained ground in 2017, but Republicans...
Paid leave laws—both sick leave and family leave—continued to gain some ground in the states in 2017 while Republicans continued to block any hope of progress at the federal level, Ivanka Trump...
View ArticleDick Durbin Needs to Take a Lesson From Steny Hoyer
As I watched today’s DACA meeting one thing really bothered me. At one point tRump said that he knew all the people at the table and he liked all the people at the table, “except maybe one or two”...
View ArticleMaryland workers will get paid sick leave despite Republican Gov. Hogan's veto
In 30 days, Maryland will be the ninth state in the U.S. with paid sick leave. The state legislature overrode a veto by Republican Gov. Larry Hogan this week:Despite a strong effort by Hogan to...
View ArticlePhoto Diary: NSA National Cryptologic Museum
The National Security Agency, America’s code-breaking and surveillance spies, is one of the most super-secretive organizations in the world. For several decades its very existence was denied, and it...
View ArticleChelsea Manning files for US Senate seat held by Ben Cardin (D-MD)
Chelsea Manning, the transgender former Army private who was convicted of passing sensitive government documents to Wikileaks, has filed to run for the U.S. Senate in Maryland, according to federal...
View ArticleChelsea Manning will run for US Senate in the Maryland Democratic primary.
In 2010, while serving as a private in the US Army, Manning discovered evidence of serious war crimes. The Bush administration had covered this up. She originally planned to deliver the evidence to the...
View ArticleMD-Gov: Ben Jealous (D) Hits Larry Hogan (R) For Not Doing Enough To Combat...
Received this e-mail today from former NAACP chairman Ben Jealous’ (D. MD) gubernatorial campaign: Ben Jealous (D. MD) Not good enough. Yesterday, years after he promised to confront the opioid...
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