MOTION TO PROCEED ON HEALTHCARE DEBATE NARROWLY PASSES IN SENATE
Official statement: MOTION TO PROCEED ON HEALTHCARE DEBATE NARROWLY PASSES IN SENATE
Statement of Beth Landry, Healthcare Organizer for Progressive Maryland, on this afternoon's Senate vote passing a motion to proceed on healthcare debate.
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INDEX TO 192 PM BLOGSPACE POSTS SINCE 2015
Here's the latest update on blog posts since the Progressive Maryland BlogSpace started airing your and your fellow Marylanders' activities and hopes for our state in summer 2015. Find, open and read any blog using these links and summaries. You can latch onto this link in any weekly memo, too...
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Reflections on Trump's Election
We're all reeling from Trump's election and asking ourselves what happened.
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Progressive Maryland BlogSpace Weekend Reader
Environmental racism in energy siting, worker justice in chicken industry hell (hello, Eastern Shore!), reaction to Gov. Hogan's imperial decree about school schedules, and good news about wind power -- good reads you may have missed, for your Labor Day weekend leisure moments...
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Hogan's school schedule move latest in a campaign to divide state and build a base
Gov. Larry Hogan's apparently crowd-pleasing decree to start schools after Labor Day is part of a parlay of moves to build a base for his reelection bid at the cost of the state's social cohesiveness
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Rascovar: Hogan’s rhetoric has Trump tendencies
Our take on Larry Hogan is the genial "I'm not Trump" face floating over an uber-Ehrlich refugee administration where every agency is busy rolling back progressive law and regulation. In a guest post by permission from our friends at MarylandReporter.org, veteran political analyst Barry Rascovar argues that Hogan's a lot more Trump-like than not, if you watch his words instead of his smile.
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Police Brutality: Call It What It Is
"...the next time we criticize the police for their actions let's not feel the need to hug them first and call them heroes, let's just talk about the policies that need to change and the culture that needs to change with it."
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Progressive Maryland Weekly Memo, pre-Labor Day edition
Don't get too relaxed... after Labor Day (and even before) there are important PM events in Prince George's, Montgomery and Howard counties -- plus musical opportunities to support our neighbors struggling after the Long Branch apartment explosion.
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The PM Weekend Reader... county officials frolic in O.C., pay gaps and other things
Our weekend roundup of interesting reads, including a report from the Maryland Association of Counties' annual get-together, black women's pay gap, health care policy choices and more...
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Progressive Maryland Weekly Memo: Our neighbors' struggles continue, plus links to past blog posts
Heading for Labor Day, life is quiet for many of us but quite hard for some of our neighbors.
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