A lease signing in Mt. Washington and a groundbreaking at Uplands. Two ceremonial events on today’s schedule. Expanding the Mt. Washington Elementary School to include a middle school has been the community’s goal for more than a decade. The Shrine of the Sacred Heart School, just two blocks away, was closed by the Archdiocese of …more >
“Election integrity monitoring” is one element of the Maryland Republican Party’s ambitious early voting plan, wrote a former press secretary and speech writer to Robert Ehrlich, Jr. in a Baltimore Sun op-ed this week. There’s another way to describe election integrity monitoring. It’s voter suppression and intimidation. Unwarranted challenges to people’s right to vote, literature …more >
In Maryland, it is illegal to influence a voter’s decision to go to the polls or vote through the use of force, menace, intimidation, bribe, reward, or offer of reward. That became our law after the General Assembly overrode Governor Ehrlich’s veto of Senate Bill 287 in 2005. The Voter’s Rights Protection Act of 2010, …more >
For the first time in 28 years, I do not have a contested Democratic primary! July 6th was the filing deadline, and the only candidates for the three seats in the House of Delegates for the 41st District are my two colleagues, Delegates Jill Carter and Nathaniel Oaks, and myself. We will have a Republican …more >
Wayland Village Senior Apartments in Forest Park will feature 89 affordable rental apartments for low- and moderate-income seniors and disabled adults. My 41st District colleagues and I helped to secure state financing for this worthy project.
The Red Line will run through the Edmondson Avenue corridor. No one’s home will be condemned to build this mass transit line because of legislation introduced by Senator Lisa Gladden, Delegates Jill P. Carter, Nathaniel T. Oaks, and myself.
Several weeks ago, I asked the Clerk’s Office if I could give the opening prayer for the House on Passover and Opening Day of the baseball season. Turns out they already had me listed. I had written the baseball prayer in my mind’s eye before my father passed away. Some personal moments that I hope …more >
You say taxation, and I say tenacity. Amendments designed to put Democrats on record about the need for tax increases to maintain current spending levels were offered by House Republicans as we debated the state budget last week. Announcing his candidacy for Governor yesterday, Bob Ehrlich one upped them. He pledged to undo the one …more >
The outcome was not in doubt, but my colleagues kept talking. When the clerk calls the roll, our votes light up on a big electronic board. Any member can rise for up to two minutes to explain his or her vote. If eyeballing of the green (yes) and red (no) lights indicates a close vote, …more >
We’re in the home stretch. With one week left in the session, two of my bills require some legislating to become law. We hope to amend the bill authorizing a court to issue a restraining order to prevent certain election law violations. If the House makes that change, then the Senate will have to do …more >
