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The billions in infrastructure money coming from Washington will be a boon to cities like Baltimore and, in our case, the improvement of Penn Station will be high on the priorities list. Certainly, the need for an attractive, accessible and ...

In June, we wrote about the problems with the state’s Business and Technology Track Courts. The headline said it was “time to get serious.” Perhaps we should have said, “Is anyone listening?”

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House Bill 2 was touted as a bill to ensure access to affordable, safe medical cannabis products, while providing an opportunity for minority and female entrepreneurs to compete for grower and processor licenses. The bill that was passed by the ...

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There’s an effort for reform of solitary confinement ( also known as “restrictive housing” or “administrative segregation”) in Maryland jails and prisons in the General Assembly. Senate Bill 539 (cross-filed with House Bill 786) seeks some limitations on the practice ...

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The Baltimore Police Department is in a time of crisis. Ineptitude and corruption exist at many levels in the department. It is time for systemic change. Crime has soared since the 2015 Freddie Gray uprising, police overtime is out of ...

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From the misery that follows school shootings, the latest one in Florida, rise clamors that something should have been done to stop the killing before it began. Often there are warning signs that the trigger-puller was on the verge of ...

Perhaps Richard P. Feynman, Nobel Prize-winning physicist and celebrated author and wit, said it best: “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.” The “yourselves” for our purposes are the ...

Maryland’s probate procedure is likely uncharted territory for most of us. For low-income people with little knowledge of the legal requirements for transfer of inherited real property, the process of opening estates and completing administration, including recordation of deeds, can ...

Baltimore struggles with appalling levels of crime and poverty, huge problems requiring multi-pronged solutions, through both civil and criminal law. Because wrongful eviction can cascade into other social ills – homelessness, depression, kids’ displacement from schools – we should provide ...

The federal criminal trial of former Baltimore Gun Trace Task Squad members has revealed some of the most shocking organized criminal behavior that could be alleged against police officers. Two of the officers charged are on trial; the balance of ...

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