Category: Opinion
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Borrow and Spend: Hogan’s Recipe for Economic Heart Disease in Maryland
It has always been difficult to convince people to worry about a danger that one does not see or feel, but can nonetheless be fatal. The economic equivalent to cholesterol is excessive debt. Like the marketers who advertise great tasting foods like ice cream, steak, and butter, it is hard to get most people to…
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Unacceptable, Delegate Malone. All affected counties should have a say on a new Bay Bridge
Earlier this week, I called the office of Delegate Malone of Anne Arundel County. Mr. Malone is sponsoring a bill, HB 560, which would strip the rights of Eastern Shore counties to weigh in on the building of a second Bay Bridge. HB 560 would repeal the rights of Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s,…
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“He Put His Hands All the Way Up My Skirt”: Staffers, Lawmakers and Lobbyists Detail Assault and Harassment in the Maryland State House
A report was released yesterday by the Women Legislators of Maryland on the state of sexual harassment and abuse in the Maryland State House. It’s ugly. “Dear Maryland Legislative Leaders, It is with great hope for the future that we present the Recommendations For a Harassment-Free Legislature developed by the Women’s Caucus of the Maryland General Assembly,”…
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Hogan and the Trump Infrastructure plan: “We’ll add toll lanes.”
Now that step two in Trump’s disastrous tax plan has arrived it’s clear his infrastructure plan will have a very large bill. Waiter, the check please. Mr. Trump’s plan is to pay for this extravagant dinner through the forced sale of American assets while cutting food stamps, housing and healthcare to the poorest Americans. And…
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County Executive Steve Schuh Wants Underpaid Teachers to Buy Discount Burgers at his Own Restaurants
County employees got some massive heartburn on Monday in the form of an email invite for discount food at Green Turtle restaurants in Anne Arundel County. Sounds like a great thing, right? Except for the fact that our teachers, woefully underpaid in our very wealthy County, were being invited to spend their paltry pay in establishments…
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BOE Candidate Corkadel Cozy with Public Education-Hater Roy Moore at Severna Park Fundraiser
According to today’s Capital Gazette newspaper, Michelle Corkadel, a constituent services officer for County Executive Steve Schuh, filed today to run for election to the Anne Arundel County Board of Education for District 7. Strange that Corkadel would want to sit on the board of our public schools, since just a few months ago, Corkadel…
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Get Money out of Maryland and Pass the Democracy Amendment Resolution
I urge all readers to tell Mike Busch, Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates, that you support the Democracy Amendment Resolution. There is a grave crisis in our democracy caused by big money in politics and attendant issues, including voter suppression. Because the Supreme Court has held that corporations have unlimited First Amendment rights…
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Adam DeMarco: Cap Campaign Spending, Save Our Democracy
On January 31st, every political campaign, candidate, and organization had to lawfully file their year-end reports for 2017. These reports include a roll-up of how much they have received, spent, disbursed, along with information as to who and where this money was sent. In the following days after every filing report deadline, news organizations like…
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The Long Lost Values of the Republican Party
I tell my friends and relatives in Texas that I am an Eisenhower Republican. I have just finished a book, “Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower’s Final Mission” by Bret Baier, the Chief Political Anchor for Fox News. I came away from this book convinced that if Eisenhower were alive today, he would be a…
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Sorry Conservatives, “Liberal” is What America is All About
One year ago, the conservative right criticized the Super Bowl festivities for celebrating our inclusive society and denigrating the word liberal, a term that defines our democracy. Reflecting on this attack on who we are as a people I wrote the attached article that was published in the “what do you think?” column of What’s…