The Preakness, pre-kindergarten, lead poisoning, and Enoch Pratt top my priority list this summer. Pimlico Race Course should remain the long-term home of the Preakness. The study of that issue is underway, under the auspices of the Maryland Stadium Authority. If the report recommends building a new facility at Pimlico, my job will be to …more >
My mother’s obstetrician was Dr, Alan Guttmacher. He would later become the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation. When I first ran for the House of Delegates in 1983, I supported Medicaid funding of abortion. One of the incumbents I defeated did not. I was the House floor leader in 1991 when we passed the …more >
Who can arrange for reinterring a family member’s remains in Maryland? Why is that relevant in the wake of the death of 50 people at a gay dance club in Orlando? Seven years ago, I learned that the buried body of a family member could not be moved without the permission of the State’s Attorney …more >
I was honored to speak last night at “We Declare: Re-Reading Israel’s Declaration of Independence.” The event was sponsored by BINA, the Jewish Movement for Social Change and held at the Israeli Embassy in Washington. This is what I said: The Declaration of Independence was made possible by the UN partition vote six months earlier. David …more >
One of Muhammad Ali’s fights took place while I was a student at Columbia Law School. I went to a movie theatre on the Upper West Side to watch the closed circuit telecast. Kenneth Clark was seated in the row in front of me. Not the PBS host but the sociologist who had conducted studies …more >
If you rebuild it, they will continue to come. 135,256 people came to Pimlico two rainy days ago. Now it’s our job to get the seating facility rebuilt so that the Preakness can be run there in the decades ahead. A public-private partnership is necessary for that to happen, and there were positive developments this …more >
“We do have slots money that could be used for that purpose, and I’m going to begin working on that tomorrow morning,” Del. Samuel I. “Sandy” Rosenberg said in response. https://baltimorebrew.com/2016/05/06/amid-a-rash-of-shootings-howard-park-sends-an-sos/ That’s what I said at a community meeting prompted by four shootings in less than a week in Howard Park. That’s what I did …more >
We debated policy on the House floor, overriding the Governor’s vetoes of two bills. However, when it came to my legislation today, it wasn’t substance. I got the signatures of all of the Baltimore City Senators on a letter supporting my local bill to provide employment incentives for fathers so that they would make their …more >
We should be judged this session by how we respond to the life and death of Freddie Gray. I have focused on preventing lead poisoning and creating incentives for fathers who owe child support to find a job. There will be several studies focused on enforcement but no new laws on lead. The child support …more >
“Nonvoters have an important stake in many policy debates — children, their parents, even their grandparents, for example, have a stake in a strong public-education system — and in receiving constituent services, such as help navigating public-benefits bureaucracies.” Justice Ruth Ginsburg wrote that in her majority opinion yesterday. Her decision upheld using the full population, …more >
