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Joint Republican Caucus Public Safety Agenda
By Joint Republican Caucus | January 12, 2025 | Commentary | 0 |
Democratic lawmakers plan to crack down on youth c...
By Capital News Service | January 31, 2024 | General Assembly | 0 |
Problems persist in juvenile services schooling 2 ...
By Capital News Service | December 7, 2023 | News | 0 |
House Republican Caucus introduces legislative pac...
By House Republican Caucus | February 11, 2023 | Commentary | 0 |
Moore budget release begins new governor’s focus o...
By Capital News Service | January 20, 2023 | Governor | 0 |
History Repeats: How the Laken Riley Act Revives Failed Crime Policies
by Paddy Bateman and Brianna Mijangos-Buiza | February 24, 2025 | Commentary | 1 |
Baltimore City knows all too well the consequences of zero-tolerance crime policies. Mass stop-and-frisks, discriminatory arrests, and a complete breakdown in trust between law enforcement and the Black community defined Maryland’s previous approach to crime.
Read MoreJoint Republican Caucus Public Safety Agenda
by Joint Republican Caucus | January 12, 2025 | Commentary | 0 |
Maryland’s budget deficit looms large as the major issue of the 2025 Legislative Session, and rightly so. While the members of the Joint Republican Caucus are ready to offer solutions to our budget challenges and fight back against tax and fee increases, this will not be our sole focus this session. As we have done in the past, the members of the House and Senate Minority Caucuses will offer common-sense legislation that will make our communities safer.
Read MoreDemocratic lawmakers plan to crack down on youth crime in the coming weeks
by Capital News Service | January 31, 2024 | General Assembly | 0 |
Children as young as 10 could potentially go to court for auto thefts and handgun violations, under one proposal key Democratic lawmakers detailed on Wednesday and plan to push for in coming weeks.
Read MoreProblems persist in juvenile services schooling 2 years after transfer from Education Department
by Capital News Service | December 7, 2023 | News | 0 |
The graduate’s mom, peers and teachers knew he was going to reach his goal, though his principal, Todd Rasher, said the other students incarcerated at the Victor Cullen Center in rural northern Frederick County didn’t see “all the footwork” it took to earn his GED.
Read MoreHouse Republican Caucus introduces legislative package to reduce crime, improve education and restore the state’s economy
by House Republican Caucus | February 11, 2023 | Commentary | 0 |
The House Republican Caucus has introduced a legislative package of reasonable, common-sense solutions to help address these challenges. Our legislative package focuses on topics that matter most to Marylanders: reducing crime, improving education, and restoring our economy.
Read MoreMoore budget release begins new governor’s focus on equity
by Capital News Service | January 20, 2023 | Governor | 0 |
Gov. Wes Moore highlighted significant investments in education, transportation, economic development, public safety and health in releasing his administration’s first budget on Friday.
Read MoreIs Baltimore’s Murder Rate a Sign that We Stopped Caring?
by Chris Anderson | December 31, 2022 | Commentary | 1 |
The names on The Baltimore Sun homicide webpage are listed chronologically but have no features that stand out. Beside each name is an age, a gender, an address, and a race. Most of the names are those of young men in their 20s, Black, and dying somewhere in Baltimore’s Black butterfly.
Read MoreFast Cars and Bad Policies: How Game Changer Programs Hurt Working-Class Baltimoreans
by Chris Anderson | December 29, 2022 | Commentary | 0 |
The new talk of the town is governor-elect Wes Moore’s baby bonds program. Throughout his campaign, Moore pitched the baby bonds program as a way to ensure that infants born in poverty arrive at adulthood in a more equal economic situation as their wealthier peers. With this program, every child born in Medicaid—largely Black and Latino–could get $3,200.
Read MoreSchulz, Franchot, Gansler tackle violent crime, and how to prevent mass shootings
by Bryan Renbaum | June 16, 2022 | Election | 0 |
Violent crime is on the rise throughout Maryland.
Last week saw a gunman open fire in a Smithsburg factory killing three and injuring four others.
The year is not yet even half over and already there have been more than 150 homicides in Baltimore, mostly by shooting, according to the Baltimore Police Department. That trend puts Baltimore on pace to surpass more than 300 homicides by the end of the year, which has been the case since at least 2017.
Read MoreHogan: ‘Enough is enough. We cannot defund the police.’
by Bryan Renbaum | October 18, 2021 | Governor, News | 0 |
The governor added: “Thinking that you can improve law enforcement by defunding the police is like saying that you want to improve education by defunding the schools. It is absurd. It is ridiculous.”
Read MoreHogan announces $150 million initiative to increase support for police, victims services
by Bryan Renbaum | October 15, 2021 | Governor, News | 0 |
Gov. Larry Hogan Friday unveiled an $150 million initiative aimed at providing additional support for the state’s law enforcement agencies and victims of violent crime.
Read MoreThe Nearsightedness of Baltimore City Government
by Les Cohen | July 7, 2021 | Commentary | 0 |
If you’re like me, you watch one of the local Baltimore news stations when you’re putting on your jammies at the end of a long day. With luck and cool sheets, you’ll be asleep before you hear the lead stories about murder and mayhem in the big city.
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