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Baltimore Deserves Soccer. Not Another Stadium Scam.

I was excited to see the headline recently that a professional soccer team might be coming to Baltimore, but legislation heard this week in the Maryland General Assembly is the wrong approach. SB 883 and HB 1078 get three things wrong, and all three can be fixed. The wrong place

Op-Ed: The Way Forward for Multiparty Democracy in Maryland

In 2024, after a panel discussion, I was talking with State Senator Charles Sydnor and I kept saying "two-party system." He stopped me. We don't have a two-party system, he said. You're on the ballot. You have a party. You're

Let Laid-Off Marylanders Build Businesses, Not Just Hunt for Jobs

This Wednesday, legislation that could reshape how Maryland supports laid-off workers goes before the General Assembly. Delegate Charkoudian's Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act, HB 188, and its Senate cross-file SB 3 from Senator Kramer, would finally index unemployment benefits to actual wages, structural repairs decades overdue. But

Authority: Ellis/Andrews for Maryland, Brian Bittner, Treasurer