As expensive ads in favor of Republican incumbent Gov. Larry Hogan went out on Maryland television channels this week, his Democratic challenger, former NAACP President Ben Jealous, has yet to respond with his own TV spots.
Capital News Service
Steam line repair project means changes on Lawyers Mall
Statues of Thurgood Marshall and three companions are being sent away from Lawyers Mall in Annapolis as part of a renovation project that will close the mall in 2019.
Plea Deals Part 3: Police crimes hidden in secrecy
Evidence of corruption by Baltimore City Sgt. Wayne Jenkins and others lay just below the surface in Baltimore’s criminal justice system for years. Defendants’ allegations rarely made it to open court, leaving the isolated few that did to founder.
Plea Deals Part 2: Bargaining while stuck in jail
An analysis of voided convictions in Baltimore found that 97 percent of the defendants were held in custody after their arrest. Studies have found that those in custody are much more likely to plead guilty, and those behind bars have a weaker bargaining position.
Plea Deals Part 1: Trading away justice in Baltimore
Eight officers from the police department’s elite Gun Trace Task Force had for years been robbing people, planting guns and drugs on them and lying on arrest reports to cover up their crimes.
Most of their victims pleaded guilty. It turns out that many, including Burley, were not.
All eight officers from the Baltimore police department’s elite Gun Trace Task Force have been convicted of crimes going on for years — robbing people, planting guns and drugs on them and lying on arrest reports to cover up their crimes. But they had a powerful accomplice yet to be held accountable: the criminal court system that convicted their victims.
How Democrats running for governor have been raising money
We’re 12 days away from the deadline for campaign finance reports for the first four months of 2018. But Capital News Service did an analysis of where the Democratic candidates had been raising money during 2017.
All electronic tolls coming in Md. in next few years; cash phasing out
Drivers in Maryland could start seeing new plazas that only collect tolls electronically at highway speeds by the summer of 2019, said Kevin Reigrut, executive director of the Maryland Transportation Authority. Hatem and Key bridges first; major construction on I-895 Harbor Tunnel.
Bill would put an armed officer in every school
Determined to pass meaningful legislation in the wake of the Parkland and Great Mills high school shootings, Maryland lawmakers are considering a measure to put an armed school resource officer in every public school. The bill comes as part of a four-bill package being rushed through the General Assembly as session nears end.
State paying more than appraised for some Purple Line properties
Maryland may be paying more for some properties in the main path of the Purple Line, state officials said, because one transit agency lacks purchasing leverage, and extended negotiations would cause costly delays. “In our enthusiasm and support for the Purple Line we’re getting put over a barrel by some of these landowners. And we are having to pay a lot more than the appraised values,” Comptroller Peter Franchot said at a Feb. 7 Board of Public Works meeting.
Bill Briefs: Making divorce easier, repealing the crime of adultery, making youth marriages illegal and tracking veteran suicides
The Maryland Senate on Thursday passed a bill that would authorize a court to allow divorce on grounds of mutual consent if the parties have minor children.
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