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Whenever an economic crisis breaks out, it is always easier for government to respond with a short-term solution than come up with a long-term remedy. Perhaps this attitude describes the approach that the U.S. federal and state officials have taken ...

Tagged with: Maryland covid-19 response

Lexico, the online collaboration between Dictionary.com and Oxford University Press, defines “legalese” as “the formal and technical language of legal documents that is often hard to understand.” I had a chuckle when I read that, given that the purpose of ...

Enough already. The commentary on the Michael Flynn-Judge Emmett Sullivan matter makes me wonder whether anyone actually reads filings and cases before they opine on the pages of once-august publications. And it starts with the deeply uninformed op-ed by the former federal ...

MedChi, The Maryland State Medical Society, is calling for action to address the tragic and ongoing public health crisis of racism in Maryland and across America. The COVID-19 pandemic has tragically demonstrated the health disparities experienced by communities of color. ...

The world as we know it has been forever changed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Courts have been closed to the public for an unprecedented 10 weeks and counting, and litigants are left with little certainty on when they may get ...

Tagged with: Maryland Law COVID-19

Beyond the obvious health and economic dangers associated with COVID-19, the coronavirus pandemic has ushered in a virtual onslaught of online scams. Google reports that during the week of April 13 alone, it identified over 18 million daily malware and ...

Tagged with: Maryland business COVID-19

Recently, Maryland Chief Judge Mary Ellen Barbera wrote in State v. Jones: “[W]e adopt today a new rule that will no longer require that accomplice testimony be corroborated by independent evidence to sustain a conviction. We do so in exercise ...

Tagged with: Paul Mark Sandler

To the editor: Baltimore does not need a spy plane for the safety of its residents. It needs thoughtful, compassionate leaders who understand that a spy plane further alienates the mostly black, brown, and poor communities that are its targets. The ...

While COVID-19 dominates the attention of many these days, there is a pivotal and transformative primary election coming up in Baltimore City on June 2. Seats up for election include those for mayor, city council president, comptroller and city council. ...

Tagged with: Donald C. Fry

Back in the late 1970s, I was working with Baltimore city on the Community Economic Development Program. Among a number of priorities associated with CEDP was augmenting an already existing program, the city’s Commercial Revitalization initiative. This was an effort ...

Tagged with: Joe Nathanson