Category: Health
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Maryland Delegate’s $145 Million Public Health Con: Maryland Kids Get Sicker, Merck Gets Richer
Pena-Melynyk’s $145 Million Public Health Con”Maryland Kids Get Sicker, Merck Gets Richer Human papillomavirus (“HPV”) will infect about 90% of Marylanders. It is usually harmless and self clearing. Very rarely, undiagnosed and untreated infections may lead to cervical cancer. The Baltimore Sun reported in 1990: “406 Maryland women died of a cancer that…need kill virtually…
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Board of Ed Candidates on Defunding Transportation Positions
APat Staff Note: Anne Arundel County Council voted down the School Board measure to transfer $745,100 of the Transportation Administrative department to support a stronger Mental Health program in a hearing Monday, July 6th. In Anne Arundel County, voters in Council districts 2, 3 and 6 will have many important choices to make on Election…
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Winking & Smirking: Anne Arundel County Police Chief Caught on Camera Mocking a Black Woman Activist
A video taken earlier this year in Anne Arundel County shows Police Chief Timothy Altomare and State’s Attorney Anne Colt Leitess subtly demeaning local resident Rev. Marguerite Morris, a Black woman known for her advocacy work. The video recording is from a meeting of The Caucus of African American Leaders of Anne Arundel County. The…
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Racism: COVID-19’s Pandemic Twin
Until January, the word pandemic was an underutilized vocabulary word. Few would say that they were fully aware of what a pandemic was, or what the word even meant. Only those who studied diseases were aware as well as scholars and historians, tracking patterns of nature and human habits. Now most people, down to the…
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The COVID-19 Pandemic Reveals Why Maryland Needs Medicare for All
My name is Mckayla Wilkes, and I’m running for Congress in Maryland’s 5th District (Prince George, Calvert, St. Mary’s, Charles, and Anne Arundel counties) in the June 2nd Democratic Primary because as a lifelong resident of Southern Maryland, I’m tired of Congress putting corporate interests over the needs of my community. Over the past three…
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Economic Stimulus Payments – What To Do When You Get More Than You Should
On the morning of April 15, I saw that a $3,400 payment from the US Treasury had been direct deposited to my bank account. I knew it was the economic stimulus payment that had been authorized by Congress just a week or so before, but the amount I received was more than I was expecting.…
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Golden-Ager Finds Hope in the Fear During the Pandemic
My desk has papers scattered across it as if a whirlwind passed over it. The dining room table is littered with half completed projects. For a person who rarely leaves a task unfinished, I’ve turned into someone I don’t recognize. Mornings find me reading everything about the virus. How many people in my area are…
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Living with Self-Quarantine in Mexico
Coronavirus South of the Border In 2015-2016 I drove with my wife, Rebecca, our 13-year old daughter, and 10-year old son in a 1985 VW Westfalia camper van from Alexandria, VA to Panama City, Panama. The drive took us through Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. It was a life-changing adventure, and…
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Local Activist Chrissy Holt: Stop Throwing Away Extra Food From School Lunch Distributions
The following is an open letter from local activist Chrissy Holt to County Executive Steuart Pittman. Holt and other activists were made award that hot meals that were not claimed by the end of daily meal distributions, were tossed in the garbage. Holt is part of a group spearheading an effort to make sure these…
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Face Masks and Ear Savers and Scrub Caps…oh my!
If you live in South County and step outside, do you hear a buzz, or machinery humming? It’s not bees, or bugs, but sewing machines! Since March 25, members of SoCo Sews, a Facebook group of local Anne Arundel County volunteers, have been churning out protective face masks and other sewn protective gear for healthcare…