The 90-day legislative session starts in two weeks.
A reporter asked me today, “What do you want to accomplish in 2017?”
This is my reply.
- Preserving the Preakness at Pimlico – Next month, the Maryland Stadium Authority will release a study evaluating the ability of Pimlico Race Course to serve as the permanent home of the Preakness. I will work with Governor Hogan, Mayor Pugh, the Stadium Authority, and the Maryland Jockey Club, which owns Pimlico, to secure financing for a new seating facility.
- Future Use of Northwestern Senior High School site – The School Board has voted to close the school. That will take place after Forest Park High School is reopened (September 2018) and possibly after Cross Country Elementary/Middle is renovated. (September 2019) The process that determines the future use of the building and the site must provide for input from all of the affected parties.
- Laboratories of Democracy – Justice Brandeis wrote, “The states are the laboratories of democracy.” If the Congress or President Trump take actions that are not in the best interests of Marylanders and we have the legal authority to undo that misguided action in our budget or laws, I will try to do so.
I welcome your thoughts.
