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Editorial Advisory Board: Incarceration under COVID-19
Gov. Larry Hogan has been widely praised for his proactive response to COVID-19. In one area, though, the governor has been less quick to act. Arguing that incarcerated people are […]
Editorial Advisory Board: The limits of executive authority
President Donald Trump recently proclaimed that he intended to order states to reopen their economies and lift stay-at-home and shelter-in-place orders issued by governors to protect the health and safety […]
Editorial Advisory Board: Front-line workers and child custody issues
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, a growing number of child custody issues are arising among parents who share custody of their minor children. The most looming is whether parents who are […]
Editorial Advisory Board: Baltimore courts need MDEC now
The courts in Baltimore city suffer from decades of neglect – we have written several editorials over the past decade regarding the dire state of Baltimore city’s courthouses. A letter […]
Editorial Advisory Board: Stop aerial surveillance program
It has been reported that Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison agreed to support surveillance flights over Baltimore only to allow the resulting data to inform us whether the program will […]
Editorial Advisory Board: The Hon. James F. Schneider, 1947-2020
Judge James F. Schneider’s professional life was one of public service. He was an assistant state’s attorney for Baltimore City, general equity master for the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City […]
Editorial Advisory Board: Attacks on judiciary diminish courts’ authority
The verbiage excoriating judges, federal and state, from bigwigs of all political parties has ratcheted up to a level that has become unsafe for the independence and respect of the […]
Editorial Advisory Board: Services sales tax plan verges on ludicrous
In its quest to create a world-class school system, the Democratic leadership of the Maryland General Assembly is promoting full funding for the Kirwan Commission’s blueprint for the future of […]
Editorial Advisory Board: Reject the Judicial Transparency Act
House Bill 355, commonly known as the Judicial Transparency Act, is a bill that has no real benefit and should not become law. In it, the State Commission on Criminal […]
Editorial Advisory Board: Self-dealing in our political system
We believe it’s impossible at this point to be a Maryland resident and not be fatigued by the never-ending self-dealing perpetuated by our government leaders, those sworn to serve the […]
Editorial Advisory Board: Don’t suspend driver’s licenses for inability to pay
Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh recently expressed his support for legislation being introduced during this year’s General Assembly session that would end the Central Collections Unit’s ability to suspend a […]
Editorial Advisory Board: Md. must end anomaly of judicial elections
Ten years ago we wrote: “Just as surely as the swallows annually return to Capistrano, each winter advocates for and against Maryland’s current system of electing circuit court judges line […]
