Maryland Office of the State Fire Marshal welcomed new Accelerant Detection K9, Taylor. Maryland Office of the State Fire Marshal announced that the addition of a new Accelerant Detection K9, Taylor. Taylor officially took over the reins of her “sister” Sky, who retired in March. Taylor and her handler, Senior Deputy State Fire Marshal Melissa Decker, graduated from Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives K9 Class yesterday.
College students in Maryland have sympathy for others protesting the Israel-Hamas war. People in support of Palestine are protesting on college campuses across the U.S. as the war continues in Gaza. They’re calling on universities to disclose any investments and divest from any companies connected to Israel. Groups of students at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and George Washington University in Washington created encampments on campus.
U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Dist. 8) is set to announce his endorsement of April McClain Delaney (D) for the Democratic nomination in the race for Maryland’s Congressional District 6 at a press conference on Saturday in Frederick, according to a news release from the McClain Delaney campaign. Raskin’s pending announcement marks one of the highest profile endorsements for McClain Delaney, a former top official of the U.S. Commerce Department, who is a frontrunner along with state Del. Joe Vogel (D-Dist. 17) in a crowded field of Democratic candidates vying for the 6th District seat in the May 14 primary election. Six Republicans are also running.
When City Council President Nick Mosby filed a campaign finance report ahead of a midnight deadline April 9, his disclosure had obvious errors the campaign left unaddressed. An amended version intended to resolve those issues, submitted by the Mosby campaign nine days later, might have raised even more questions.
The closure this month of the Pariah Brewing Company is merely the latest in a series of closures and relocations that has shaken Maryland’s beer sector in recent months. I believe we should take this opportunity to revisit Maryland’s business climate for craft beer. I previously served as the principal staff regulator of Maryland’s alcohol industry and as lead staff to former Comptroller Peter Franchot’s 2017-18 Reform on Tap initiative.
LifeBridge Health has purchased around 80 acres of land from one of the region’s largest nonprofits in a move aimed at simplifying the health care system’s ongoing expansion. Two subsidiaries of the health care system, Sinai Hospital and the Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center, purchased four plots of land from The Associated: Jewish Federation of Baltimore for $4.08 million on April 10, according to property records.
Maryland is tackling stubborn delays in processing applications for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and last month the state said it got close to federal compliance for the first time in almost a decade. The state’s Department of Human Services has been plagued by chronic processing delays for years, through multiple administrations — a violation of state and federal requirements that leaves thousands of eligible Maryland families without benefits.
A lot of “first-evers” have happened under our administration. From creating Baltimore County’s first free, locally operated Towson Loop transit service, to opening up our government’s budget process like never before, we continue to reimagine how government can be an engine of progress, helping every resident in every ZIP code reach their full potential.
I caught the latest Larry Hogan-for-Senate commercial where he says pretty much what he always says: Washington is completely broken. It’s time to stop partisan politics. Enough is enough. We need to get stuff done. The former Maryland governor seems to be presenting himself as a non-partisan, middle-of-the-road guy with a magic formula to heal a bitterly divided Congress.
Armstrong Williams (awilliams@baltsun.com; @arightside) is a political analyst, syndicated columnist and owner of the broadcasting company, Howard Stirk Holdings. He is also part owner of The Baltimore Sun.