Category: Politics
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First Woman Mayor of Annapolis Ellen Moyer Endorses Chrissy Holt for Senate
Wednesday, Ellen Moyer, two-term Annapolis Mayor and the first woman to ever hold the top position in Maryland’s capital, endorsed the candidacy of healthcare advocate and business woman Chrissy Holt for Senate in District 30 which includes the Annapolis area and South Anne Arundel County. “Ellen Moyer’s endorsement of my candidacy is an incredible honor,”…
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The Great Awakening: Young Voters Are Waking Up to The Republican Gutting of America
I just attended a Gun Legislation Rally in Annapolis, organized and led by high school students, and saw many potential new voters for the rapidly approaching 2018/20 elections. This was one of hundreds of similar rallies which occurred simultaneously in Washington, DC and around the nation. My generation has allowed the National Rifle Association (NRA)…
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Maryland Politicians Who Won’t Fight For $15 Are Selling Out Our Futures
After recently graduating from Salisbury University with Summa Cum Laude honors, an abundance of connections with esteemed professors, and a plethora of qualifications in my field, I assumed that I could find a job that would grant me a livable wage. I wasn’t expecting a six-figure salary right out of college, but I surely anticipated…
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When it Comes to Medical Marijuana, It’s Money Over Morality For County Executive Schuh
Anne Arundel County’s top official may publicly disapprove of medical marijuana, but he sure does love for another kind of green stuff. On March 16, the Capital reported that County Executive Steve Schuh was trying to block variances for medical marijuana dispensaries. At the same time, the county’s administrative hearing officer disappeared with no explanation,…
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An Anne Arundel County Middle-School Student Speaks Out on School Gun Violence
My name is Morgan Zivkovich. I am in 8th grade at Bates Middle School and am currently in the Performing and Visual Arts Program (PVA) for band. I am going to Annapolis High School next year for the PVA dance program. For the walkout on March 14th I was asked to make a speech. I…
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Clean Water Activists Arrested at the State House.
Five clean-water activists were arrested at the Maryland State House yesterday. The five Grandmothers blocked the West entrance to the building in an attempt to get Hogan to stop the construction of a Potomac River pipeline to transport fracked gas through Maryland. The Chesapeake Climate Action Network communications director, Denise Robbins, says Hogan needs to…
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Women Democrats Hope to Flip D-33 Boys Club Out of the State House
A fundamental change in the American political landscape occurred with the election of Donald Trump in November 2016. As the Republican party confirmed its identity as the white nationalist party – a change begun long ago with the Southern strategy fashioned by Richard Nixon and colleagues in response to the civil rights legislation of the…
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Anne Arundel County: For Developers It’s a Win-Win
We all know building in critical areas isn’t good for the Chesapeake Bay. Charles Snyder is an Anne Arundel County developer and contributor to County Executive Steve Schuh’s campaigns who tried for years to build homes on a 140-acre restricted critical area on Deep Cove Creek, just north of Deale, Maryland. The building plan for…
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Bipartisan Anti-Gerrymandering Bill Sponsored by Anne Arundel County Delegates
Gerrymandering is a Maryland problem. Whether you see a pterodactyl, a pair of headphones, a rhinoceros beetle, or blood splatter, all eight Maryland congressional districts look like one thing: corruption. Weird-shaped, corrupting, gerrymandered districts were first deemed problematic when they were named for Elbridge Gerry’s salamander district back in 1812. Instead of utilizing population numbers,…
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DEBBIE IRVING, RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATOR/AUTHOR TO LEAD SPEAKER SEMINAR BASED ON HER BOOK “WAKING UP WHITE”
Annapolis, MD – March 6, 2018 — The Unitarian Universalist Church of Annapolis will be hosting an afternoon with Educator and Author Debby Irving who will present and facilitate a speaker workshop, “Waking Up White: I’m a Good Person, Isn’t that Enough?” that will focus on the everyday perpetuation of racial inequality by well-intentioned white…