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With his first budget plan in, Moore’s proposals begin to take shape against a backdrop of uncertain financial forecasts
January 23, 2023 -

Gov. Wes Moore leaned back on the couch in his sparse office — undecorated, so far, aside from a portrait of Frederick Douglass — in the State House and said with a smile that the $63 billion budget he’d just proposed should be anything but surprising. The Democratic governor campaigned on his support of transportation investments, such as the Baltimore east-west light rail route called the Red Line, and education initiatives, like the decadelong program to invest in public schools, called the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future. Each — the Blueprint specifically and transportation projects generally — would get $500 million boosts in the budget plan he announced Friday.

Read More: Baltimore Sun
Gov. Larry Hogan promised to change Maryland. As he leaves office, did he deliver?
January 18, 2023 -

With fat white snowflakes falling on Annapolis, Gov. Larry Hogan stood on the steps of the State House and declared that things would be different in Maryland. It was 2015, and Hogan had just been sworn into office, a rare Republican governor in a Democrat-dominated state. In his first speech as governor, Hogan promised to move Maryland’s government in a more bipartisan direction and to be friendlier to businesses and easier on the wallets of state residents. “One hundred years from now, I want Marylanders to say: ‘This was when Maryland’s renaissance began,’” Hogan declared to thousands gathered below him on Lawyers Mall, bundled up against the cold.

Read More: The Baltimore Banner
Gov.-elect Moore announces more Cabinet appointments
January 18, 2023 -

Maryland’s Gov.-elect Wes Moore announced additional Cabinet appointments on Tuesday, a day before he’s scheduled to be sworn in as governor. Salisbury Mayor Jake Day will be the housing and community development secretary, the incoming administration announced. Kevin Atticks has been named the state’s agriculture secretary. Atticks founded Grow & Fortify to support value-added agricultural organizations and the businesses they represent. Moore also has appointed Serena McIlwain to be the state’s environment secretary. She has served as undersecretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency.

Read More: WBAL News Radio
Rep. Mfume asks USPS to issue commemorative stamp to honor Rep. Elijah Cummings
January 18, 2023 -

U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume has introduced a congressional resolution asking that the U.S. Postal Service issue a commemorative stamp for Congressman Elijah E. Cummings, he announced Tuesday. The stamp would honor Cummings’ “life and legacy,” according to the release. “I wanted to make sure that Elijah would be remembered and his work would not be forgotten. I am encouraged by the vast amount of support this effort has already received from those who knew Elijah or appreciate his legacy,” Mfume said in the statement. The two had been friends for over 40 years.

Read More: The Baltimore Banner
Baltimore Deputy Mayor Faith Leach, who spearheaded squeegee collaborative, named city administrator
January 18, 2023 -

Baltimore Deputy Mayor Faith Leach has been named city administrator, the second person to hold the newly created post in the city. Leach, the deputy mayor of equity, health and human services, joined the administration in 2021. She has been a visible representative for Democratic Mayor Brandon Scott, leading the city’s outreach programs to squeegee workers and working on the city’s guaranteed income pilot program. The appointment announced Tuesday requires confirmation from the Baltimore City Council. Scott said in a news release that Leach has proved herself as a “transformational leader.”

Read More: Baltimore Sun
Wes Moore to be sworn in, making history as Md.’s first Black governor
January 18, 2023 -

With his hand on a Bible owned by abolitionist Frederick Douglass, Wes Moore will be sworn in Wednesday to become Maryland’s first Black governor and only the third elected in U.S. history. Moore, an author, combat veteran and former chief of a poverty-fighting nonprofit, will take the oath of office on the steps of the State House in Annapolis, just blocks away from a dock where Africans, forced into the enslaved person trade, arrived in America to be sold. When he is inaugurated at noon, Moore will become the state’s 63rd governor, returning control of the governor’s mansion to Democrats after eight years of Republican rule.

Read More: Washington Post
Before becoming Maryland’s first Black governor, Wes Moore will visit ‘sacred place’ where enslaved people once landed
January 17, 2023 -

Moments before Wes Moore is sworn in as Maryland’s first Black governor, he will gather with other prominent Black leaders to commemorate the historic day. They’ll meet down the street from the State House at an Annapolis site where enslaved Africans once arrived on the shores of the United States. In a quiet ceremony, closed to the public, the group will discuss the story of the city’s docks, one of five locations in Maryland that enslaved Africans first landed after the Middle Passage across the Atlantic Ocean.

Read More: Baltimore Sun
Brooke Lierman makes history as Maryland’s first woman comptroller
January 17, 2023 -

Former Del. Brooke Lierman of Baltimore City made history Monday as Maryland’s 34th comptroller and the first woman ever elected to the position. During a nearly 45-minute ceremony outside the Goldstein Treasury Building in Annapolis, Lierman thanked her family, former General Assembly colleagues and Gov. Larry Hogan (R), who conducted one of his final official duties as governor to swear in Lierman.

Read More: Maryland Matters
Moore administration picks 10 for cabinet, including state senator
January 17, 2023 -

Similar to Maryland’s outgoing governor, Wes Moore is slated to take office next week without any legislative experience, creating an environment where those around the state’s chief executive have a particularly important role to play. This week, Gov.-Elect Wes Moore, whose inauguration is scheduled for Jan. 18, filled out more of his team, announcing the appointment of 10 cabinet secretaries to lead the state’s executive branch agencies. One of the secretaries is a Maryland senator, seven were state residents and at least five have worked in D.C.

Read More: Delmarva Now
At Gov.-elect Wes Moore’s last Baltimore church service before inauguration, hugs of encouragement, prayers of hope
January 17, 2023 -

Bishop Donte Hickman was building toward the climax of his sermon early Sunday, his deep voice climbing gradually in volume, energy and pace, as he brought an oft-quoted passage from the Book of Matthew to life. God has given us what Jesus called the keys to the kingdom — and the keys to our own dignity, sanctity and future — he said, as long as we remain strong in our faith. “If you have the keys, won’t you take them out?” Hickman cried. And in the front row at Southern Baptist Church, his most famous congregant stood and did exactly that.

Read More: Baltimore Sun

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