Angela Alsobrooks has made history by winning the Senate race to represent Maryland, becoming the state’s first Black woman to hold this position. The Associated Press projected Alsobrooks’ victory. Alsobrooks’ win is not only a major milestone for Maryland but also one for African Americans as she became the fifth-ever Black woman elected to […]
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Controlled by the state's Democratic lawmakers, Maryland's General Assembly voted over the weekend to override Republican Governor Larry Hogan's veto on a measure to expand abortion access.
(Washington Examiner) — Maryland and Virginia saw third-quarter losses in state tax revenue in 2010 compared with the same quarter last year, bucking a national trend showing positive gains. Nationally, states collected $7.6 billion more in taxes during the third quarter this year than in 2009, representing a 4.8 percent increase in state tax dollars, […]
(Washington Informer) — Montgomery County’s top administrator banks a higher salary than the vice president of the United States. Ditto for Fairfax County’s executive. And the District’s police chief is paid more than the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and speaker of the House. Dozens of local officials earn better wages than the […]
(Washington Examiner) — In the last century, Maryland and Virginia residents have had to share their congressmen with more and more people as the states’ populations have jumped but their number of U.S. representatives has not. And with the national population shifts, neither state appears to be in line for more U.S. representatives, although Maryland’s […]
(Afro) — It could drastically alter election results and affect who runs for public office. No, it’s not voting or a scandal. It’s redistricting. And the practice that occurs after each decennial census is getting a few updates in Maryland this time around. A state law passed in April will change how prisoners are counted […]
(Washington Post) — The Justice Department has closed its investigation into allegations of discrimination at Hyattsville’s police department, determining that there were no widespread practices that violated employees’ civil rights, city and NAACP officials said Tuesday.The investigation began this year after the Montgomery County and Prince George’s County chapters of the NAACP asked federal authorities to […]