Politics

A Maryland woman is advocating for a bill aimed at increasing the number of live organ donors. Lindsay Gutierrez, originally from Oklahoma, served in security forces for the U.S. Air Force from 2010 to 2016. After tours alongside her husband in both England and Georgia, she was transferred to Maryland to work with the Department of Defense. She currently lives in Ellicott City.

Baltimore Councilwoman Odette Ramos said she might consider a “different” approach in the future following a dustup over a list of demands she sent to Johns Hopkins University, but the councilwoman maintained that her actions were for the good of her constituents. The letter in question was sent to the university in April amid discussions between the school and the councilwoman about a proposed Data Science and AI Institute.

Now that President Joe Biden has dropped his reelection bid, what happens to the Maryland ballot? According to the Maryland State Board of Elections’ 2024 calendar, the ballots have yet to be certified and displayed on the board’s website. That deadline comes on Sept. 3. The deadline for a registered voter to seek judicial review of ballot printing errors is Sept. 4. The deadline for a registered voter to seek judicial review of content and arrangement of the ballot is Sept. 5.

U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin, an influential member of Maryland’s Congressional delegation and a national Democratic voice, has asked President Joe Biden in a letter to weigh his future carefully, writing that the nation’s future is on the line. He’s the highest-ranking Maryland Democrat to suggest that stepping down could be a consideration for Biden, whose campaign has struggled in recent weeks.

Critical days ahead, President Joe Biden is facing the stark reality that many Democrats at the highest levels want him to consider how stepping aside from the 2024 election to make way for a new nominee atop the ticket could be the party’s best chance of preventing widespread losses in November. Isolated as he battles a COVID infection at his beach house in Delaware, Biden’s already small circle of confidants before his debate fumbling has downsized further.

Baltimore County is violating its own laws when it rehires county employees who have retired and either doesn’t notify the County Council or keeps the employees on the payroll for several years, the county inspector general said in a report released this week. The county has changed its laws three times since 2010 to outline under what terms a retired county employee can return. The County Council passed the most recent law in 2021.

April McClain Delaney, the Democratic nominee running to represent Maryland’s 6th District in Congress, raised over a million dollars in connection with her campaign in the second quarter of 2024 — about 80% of which came from the candidate herself. According to quarterly campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Monday, McClain Delaney raised $1,034,297 during the second quarter of 2024.

On a quiet street just two blocks from the Donald Trump-inspired euphoria inside the Republican National Convention, a small group of the disaffected were mourning a party they once knew, now long gone. Maryland’s former Republican Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, the star attraction at the gathering of anti-Trump conservatives, had strong words for his party — one that he said “needs the biggest political enema it has ever seen.”