SHIFT IN HUD FUNDING COULD UNHOUSE THOUSANDS: State officials and anti-homelessness organizations said they fear a shift in federal funding priorities could result in thousands of Marylanders who now benefit from permanent housing assistance, instead facing homelessness once again. Danielle J. Brown/Maryland Matters.
MULTI STATE CHESAPEAKE BAY DEAL ON TRACK DESPITE QUESTIONABLE FUNDING: Maryland lawmakers say a revised plan to restore the Chesapeake Bay is on track for final approval Dec. 2, even as questions linger about whether the Trump administration will support long-term environmental work. Ben Mause/The Baltimore Sun.
CONSTELLATION TARGETS HARFORD CO. FOR NEW GAS PLANT, PIPELINE COSTS COULD GET IN WAY: There’s a slight hitch in Constellation Energy’s plan to construct a new natural-gas fired power plant in Maryland: The potentially prohibitive cost of delivering natural gas to the proposed Harford County site. Christine Condon/Maryland Matters.
CONSTELLATION CEO SAYS: DON’T LET EXELON BUILD POWER PLANT: Constellation Energy wants to build new power plants for Maryland — and it’s willing to rough up a sibling to make its case. Constellation CEO Joe Dominguez argued to state lawmakers Thursday that the Baltimore-based company would be better than Exelon at building the power generation the state wants. Bria Overs and Adam Willis/The Baltimore Banner.
LEGISLATORS WARN DATA CENTERS COULD LEAD TO ELECTRIC BILL INCREASE, ROLLING BLACKOUTS: A bipartisan group of legislators is warning that electric bills could increase by $70 per month and there could be rolling blackouts due to data centers. David Collins/WBAL News.
‘GOV. IDGAF’: GOP SPLIT OVER INSULTING NICKNAME FOR GOV. MOORE: Maryland Republicans are divided over whether to embrace a mocking nickname for Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, after he used the phrase “IDGAF” during a national television interview. Mennatalla Ibrahim/The Baltimore Sun.
EDWARD L. COCHRAN JR.,CIVIL RIGHTS CHAMPION AND SECOND HO. CO. COUNTY EXEC, DIES AT 96: When Edward L. Cochran Jr. joined the Howard County Board of Education in 1964, he immediately called for the rapid desegregation of public schools, which the district still was resisting a decade after the Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling. Jess Nocera/The Baltimore Banner.
FERGUSON WILL ‘DIMINISH HIS POWER’ BY OPPOSING REDISTRICTING, ANALYSTS SAY: Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson has caught some fellow Democrats’ ire for opposing Gov. Wes Moore’s redistricting push. Political analysts warn that could lead voters to have a weakened perception of Ferguson’s leadership once the redistricting battle ends. Tinashe Chingarande/The Baltimore Sun.
MD CONSIDERS ALTERING ITS RECORDING CONSENT AND EVIDENCE LAWS: The Maryland House Judiciary Committee held a briefing this week on whether the state should alter its wiretapping and recording consent laws. Sarah Petrowich/WYPR- FM.
FEDERAL JUDGE OVERSEES HEARING IN JAIL OVERDETENTION LAWSUIT: Over the past 10 years, Marylanders have collectively lost 40 years of their lives to over-detention at the City of Baltimore’s Central Booking and Intake Center, a lawyer for people who are suing the facility for failing to promptly let them go after judges ordered their release argued in federal court Thursday. Ruben Castaneda/The Baltimore Sun.
JUDGE WEIGHS PUSH TO DEPORT ABREGO GARCIA TO LIBERIA: Kilmar Ábrego García’s fate hangs in limbo after his lawyers fought for his release on Thursday while the government argued their right to remove the Maryland man to the West African country of Liberia. Sara Ruberg/The Baltimore Banner.
INSIDE MARYLAND’S BROKEN SENIOR-CARE PIPELINE: A Spotlight on Maryland investigation into the state’s senior-care system has uncovered widespread use of unlicensed assisted living homes and gaps in oversight that leave vulnerable adults at risk. Some advocates and lawyers have called it senior “trafficking.” Gary Collins/The Baltimore Sun.
CARROLL COMMUNITY MEMBERS PUSH BACK ON ICE POLICIES IN SCHOOLS: Carroll County community members pressed the delegates and senators who represent the county at the state level to address policy on Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in schools. Lily Carey/The Baltimore Sun.
FREDERICK CO. SCHOOLS CRACK DOWN ON OVERCROWDING: The Frederick County Board of Education voted Wednesday night to approve a redistricting plan for Linganore Creek Elementary to address overcrowding in nearby schools. Nathanael Miller/WYPR-FM.
ED HALE PLEDGES TO CUT VEHICLE FEES, END EMISSIONS TESTING IF ELECTED GOVERNOR: On Thursday, Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Hale held a press conference at a local MVA, taking aim at rising costs for Maryland drivers. If elected, he vowed to eliminate emissions testing and slash several other taxes and fees. Rebecca Pryor/Fox 45 News.
Personally Gov IDGAF has a ring to it and it summarizes his Governorship. All he seems to care about is getting into fights with Trump. Meanwhile the state continues to deteriorate, scandal after scandal after scandal. But Hey the Dem Party of MD is great, right?! How wonderful they are at governing us, they over saw and caused the decades increase in energy prices through shitty legislation, they have a CPS that can’t even follow its own laws or do background checks leading to a young black lady committing suicide, or how about the Key Bridge that will take an estimated extra 2 years and double the cost, they want to push an UNFAIR map of 8-0 which is probably unconstitutional in our state and also a waste of time and money all for optics, and they continue to have deficits that we are going to have to resolve. Sure you could blame some of Trumps layoffs on our state for decreased tax revenue, but again that is also can be put on the Dems for not being business friendly at all and not diversifying our economy and being dependent on federal jobs. We just always assumed we could suck the Gov’t teat with tax rev from these Jobs. But ya know Dems are better right? They sure do take care of us in this state. LMAO. Dem party of MD has become an incompetent joke.
Senate President Ferguson IS a leader. A true LEADER tells you the hard truth of the situation and is willing to go against angry mobs with irrational responses. He’s telling it to you straight, REDISTRICTING IS STUPID! It is most likely unconstitutional to push an 8-0 map, especially with 6 of the MD Supreme Justices being appointed by Hogan. Its a waste of time and lost cause and is just more political pandering at its best, all because people want to be angry at the President. That’s fine be angry at the President but don’t be stupid and waste our time and money on this farce. If this 8-0 map is pushed it will get struck down and may even force the state to create a 2nd repub district, it could really bite the Dems in the butt, so I dare them, because they stand to have more to lose than gain, not to mention the Gov insulting our intelligences by saying “have a fair map,” I’m not so sure he knows what the word “fair” means. It must mean disenfranchise voters of minority parties.