A majority of the bills passed with bipartisan support.
A group of Maryland Senate lawmakers began hearings on 15 police reform measures Tuesday, but were met with disapproval from groups on both the political right and the left.
Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford and Comptroller Peter Franchot say it’s time for “new leadership.”
No, when rising in the wee hours of the morning to we didn’t suffer a sudden wave of nostalgia for bad perms, The Bangles and “Mr. Belvedere”. We were confronted by all four networks confirming that temps are hitting eighty degrees today. Awesome. This mild weather was welcome news for the hundreds of Georgetown students who camped out in line to get their hands on one of the 1,000 tickets made available around 9:00…
Sad news, Washington. Fox 5 brings us a heartbreaking story from a Maryland farm. Apparently someone broke into a barn in Yellow Springs, Md. and cut off a sheep’s head. As Shawn Yancy lamented, this left “an adorable lamb… motherless”. Just think! What kind of monster would harm a helpless farm animal? Fortunately, Brian Bolter was on the case, outlining the possibilities: it seems to either be a “sick joke” or — far more likely…
Happy Friday, folks; may this day be the start of a fantastic, 80-degree yet cloudy weekend. On that note, who loses 1,137 laptops? It seems that, having announced the missing laptops Thursday night, only the Commerce Department is capable of such feats. NBC 4 tells us that since 2001, the laptops, 672 of which belonged to the Census Bureau, have vanished. Says Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez. “The amount of missing computers is high, but…
Did you get caught on Connecticut Avenue near the Uptown Theatre last night? Were you blinded by the sight of limos and more barricades than you can shake a stick at? We were. And, boy, was traffic, both of the automobile and pedestrian sort, a riot. Looks like it was all courtesy of the premiere of the movie The Guardian, starring Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher and Sela Ward. We didn’t spot any stars, but, according…
It’s a cold, foggy morning this Friday the 13th, but it will turn strangely warm with evening thunderstorms as the day progresses. It’s quiet also, as Washington concentrates on the long weekend and NFL playoffs, and the news is focused squarely on our top story. Man Held in Rosenbaum Case: It appears that D.C. police have arrested and charged a man suspected in the attack on New York Times journalist David Rosenbaum, after video…
We have all followed the increasingly depressing news from the devastated Gulf Coast, watching as parts of New Orleans slowly disappeared under the slowly rising flood waters. News now has it that New Orleans, a city of 485,000, is to be fully evacuated and remain empty for as long as four months as federal and state officials struggle to repair levees and suck water out of the bowl-shaped city. DCist can only ponder the toll…
It seems that the governor of our oft-neglected neighbor to the north — the first Republican governor Maryland has had in 36 years — is having little luck in shaping state politics these days. Recent legislative moves in the state’s Democratic-controlled General Assembly have pushed progressive causes that favor labor over industry and may force Gov. Robert Ehrlich into the uncomfortable position of using his veto power — and possibly having it overriden. The Baltimore…