Instead of traveling to her party’s gathering where Donald Trump claimed the GOP’s presidential nomination Wednesday, Maryland House Minority Whip Kathy Szeliga decided to remain in her own state to focus on her campaign against Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Montgomery County for the open U.S. Senate seat. “I am a little sorry I couldn’t be there,” said Szeliga, who represents Baltimore County in the Maryland House of Delegates. “But I should be here (in Maryland) meeting voters.”
As Donald Trump seems primed to accept the nomination as the GOP’s 2016 presidential candidate this week at the Republican National Convention, party leaders are eying a problem: finding a way to coalesce the base around the controversial business mogul.
Maryland GOP convention delegates are calling Donald Trump’s selection of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate a “good move” that fills in some policy and experience holes in the ticket.
Though Nancy’s Law never went further than five minutes in a committee hearing and a Facebook page, it exposed a little-known rule about what happens when you die in Maryland without a will.
The $5.6 billion transit project is set to obliterate the Spring Center shopping center at the corner of 16th and Spring streets in Silver Spring, where Crest Opticians is one of 20 businesses that will have to make way for the line.
At least 16 townhomes on Arliss Street in Silver Spring have front yards that will be used to make way for the Purple Line. Construction for the 16.2-mile double-track light rail, which will run from Bethesda in Montgomery County to New Carrollton in Prince George’s County, will take place just feet away from residents’ front doors.
According to the Maryland Transit Administration’s August 2013 Purple Line impact statement, a total of 25 single-family homes in Maryland are being fully acquired by the State Highway Administration to make way for the light rail line.
Connecting Prince George’s and Montgomery counties, the $5.6 billion light rail system will accommodate transfers to the red, green and orange Metro lines, and will link to Amtrak and MARC trains. Construction is set to begin as early as later this year, with the transit line being fully operational by spring of 2022.
Freddie Gray’s death sparked huge civil unrest in the city that became national news. One year later, dozens of legislative proposals resulted from or garnered additional attention because of the death of a disadvantaged, young, black man from West Baltimore and the long-standing frustrations this incident brought to the surface.
After nearly unimpeded growth in an industry that didn’t exist a decade ago, around 30 U.S. jurisdictions have passed new ride-hailing regulatory legislation, all in the hopes of making services like Uber and Lyft safer for passenger use.
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