Voting Rights Roundup: Court blocks New Hampshire GOP's law targeting young...
Leading Off●New Hampshire: On Thursday, a New Hampshire state court struck down a voting restriction Republicans passed in 2017 that imposed new voter residency requirements and made it more difficult...
View ArticleLet's be honest
The death toll from coronavirus is probably double what has been reported. Yes, double. We’ve blown away the projections the president likes to latch onto. We know he is a liar; we know he is...
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Maryland Gov. Hogan has coronavirus tests secretly delivered from S. Korea &...
How dysfunctional has America become under the mis-leadership of the infantile Donald Trump and his soulless henchman Jared Kushner? So dysfunctional Larry Hogan, the Republican Governor of Maryland...
View ArticleI got an email about reopening Maryland from my US Rep, a physician and a...
But as more testing becomes available, we will be diagnosing people who up until now would not have been tested, thus artificially increasing the case count. Since strain on the health system was...
View ArticleLocal Republicans outraged when AP history lesson compares Trump to Nazis
Students in an Advanced Placement (AP) history class at Loch Raven High School, a public high school located in Towson, Maryland, had a unique lesson in the classroom, much to the outrage of local...
View ArticleDid Paul Krugman Just Endorse a "Green New Deal"? He did, sort of, driven by...
Dear Citizens and Elected Officials: I believe that this photo which led in the NY Times at the very end of 2019 and which I have chosen for my “lead” will be an iconic one for our times... or the...
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NM-Sen: Sen. Sherrod Brown (D. OH) Helps Ben Ray Luján (D) Keep Tom Udall's...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D. OH) in support of Rep. Ben Ray Luján’s (D. NM-03) U.S. Senate campaign:Rep. Ben Ray Lujan (D. NM)Democrats need to flip four seats to take...
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Baltimore mayor to Trump: Stay away!
Donald Trump is scheduled to visit Baltimore on Memorial Day, and Baltimore’s mayor doesn’t want him there. Can you blame him? Who would want that tactless, maskless disease vector anywhere near their...
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CO-Sen: Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D. MD) Helps John Hickenlooper (D) End Moscow...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D. MD) in support of John Hickenlooper’s (D. CO) U.S. Senate campaign:John Hickenlooper (D. CO)I’m reaching out today to ask you to...
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SC-Sen: Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D. MD) Helps Jaime Harrison (D) Kick Lindsey...
Received this e-mail yesterday from U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D. MD) in support of Jaime Harrison’s (D. SC) U.S. Senate campaign:Jaime Harrison (D. SC)I’m writing to you today to ask for your help...
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Expressing Love With Papier-mâché
My sister, Marcie, is an artist and an art teacher. She sells some paintings, but the majority of her income comes from teaching art classes at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. Since covid-19 hit in...
View ArticleThe Real Racism Issue We're NOT Discussing About the Bethesda Cyclist Affair.
For me, the least interesting and least serious issue about this video which lit up social media for days (and caused 2 men to have their names and reputation unfairly smeared), is what this guy did in...
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GA-Sen B: Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D. MD) Helps Rev. Raphael Warnock (D) End...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D. MD) in support of Rev. Raphael Warnock’s (D. GA) U.S. Senate campaign:I’m reaching out today with an urgent request: please help us win...
View ArticleWind Turbines in Western MD: Prop. Rights, Power Politics, Public Process,...
June 4, 2020Wind Turbines in Western Maryland: Property Rights, Power Politics, Public Process, NIMBYism and the Dual Environmental ThreatsStatement by Bill of RightsThis essay is dedicated to all...
View ArticleVideo shows restaurant manager refusing Black family due to child's attire...
Two Baltimore restaurant managers have parted ways with Atlas Restaurant Group after viral video showed a worker asking a Black woman and her child to leave because the boy was in athletic apparel....
View ArticleURGENT - Hey, Mr Postman, Bring Me My Absentee Ballot - in MARYLAND!
Help prevent election chaos in Maryland! We need every mailed-in ballot to count! And we need to protect the health of election workers and voters!How do we do that?We are asking everyone to begin...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Decimating Day Care Businesses and Young Families
The headline here in MD: Prince George's Loses Almost Half of Licensed Child Care Providerswww.nbcwashington.com/…That should catch all of our attention.Almost half of all day care slots — gone.For...
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Where my mail is going
I love USPS. Like Social Security, Medicare and even the IRS, it is a public good that reliably provides a service or benefits to an enormous number of beneficiaries in a way private, bottom-line...
View Article(UPDATE: Call to Action) Sinclair Broadcasting's Licenses Challenged by...
(Read this 2017 dailykos diary about “Joint Sales Agreements” or JSAs, which some experts say Sinclair uses to follow the letter of the law while violating its spirit. While selling off a station under...
View ArticleNEW REPORT: Abuses in Maryland’s Crab Picking Industry Continue to Threaten...
After months of working closely with migrant worker women on this project, we are excited to launch our new report: Breaking the Shell: How Maryland’s Migrant Crab Pickers Continue to be “Picked...
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