Politics

It took more than a week, but CharmTV has finally released the video of the April 26 City Council meeting where a nonprofit CEO – brought in by City Council President Nick Mosby to support his Dollar House legislation – caused an uproar. At the “committee of the whole” meeting called by Mosby to rally support for his stalled legislation, he ushered in Bruce Marks, founder of Boston-based Neighborhood Assistance Corp. of America.

Heather R. Mizeur, the leading Democratic candidate in the 1st congressional district, is releasing an economic plan Thursday designed to spur the local economy, change the business and employment narrative for the largely rural district, maximize federal resources, and spotlight her own experience at multiple levels of government. Mizeur is timing the release of her plan to a series of appearances in Salisbury on Thursday, where she’ll  visit a marina, a shipyard and a city park that’s under construction with Mayor Jacob R. Day and participate later in a Democratic candidate forum at Wor-Wic Community College.

Carroll County commissioners voted 3-1 Thursday to adopt a resolution creating a police accountability board. The resolution specifies that members shall not have a criminal charge pending or have been convicted of a crime in federal or state court. Commissioner President Ed Rothstein voted against the measure because he opposed that restriction.

A bill aimed at allowing for more mixed-use residential construction around Fort George G. Meade passed the Anne Arundel County Council unanimously Monday night. The bill limits the area where certain kinds of mixed-use development can be done to a 4-mile radius around the military installation and reduces the size of the parcels that are eligible from 25 acres to 5 acres. It also allows business park and highway commercial development zones to be used for housing without having to be accompanied by commercial development.

Amid intense focus on abortion rights, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) has decided to withhold the $3.5 million that state lawmakers designated for training new providers, his spokesman said. The decision effectively delays the state’s new abortion provider training program for a year and comes as the popular governor winds down his time in office and sharpens his national ambitions.

Looking over Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman’s proposed budget, student school board member Bunmi Omisore couldn’t help but smile. In February she proposed adding $1.9 million to the Anne Arundel County Public Schools operating budget to cover the cost of providing menstrual products to students — an amendment that was approved by a 7-1 vote. Pittman included the money in his spending plan.

If you are Black or Hispanic in a conservative state that already limits access to abortions, you are far more likely than a white woman to have one. And if the U.S. Supreme court allows states to further restrict or even ban abortions, minority women will bear the brunt of it, according to statistics analyzed by The Associated Press. The potential impact on minority women became all the more clear on Monday with the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion suggesting the court’s conservative majority is poised to overturn the landmark 1973 decision legalizing abortion.