This is the grave of Isidor Rayner. Born in 1850 in Baltimore, Rayner grew up in a well-off Jewish family with roots in German. Like many German Jews, they did very well in the United States and were upwardly mobile. His father was also a...
Maryland
When we interviewed David Nir of Downballot on our podcast in September, one point he made is that popular governors from the opposite party of who dominates the state almost.
Sometimes it's hard not to just throw up your hands at the idiotic decisions people make about where they choose to live. Evidence about environmental change? Please, we just lived.
This is the grave of William Pinkney Whyte Born in Baltimore in 1824, Whyte was named for his grandfather, former attorney general William Pinkney, who served under James Madison. However, he seems to have hated his parents, as he later changed his name from "White"...
When I hear the mayor of Baltimore coming out against a $15 minimum wage, I hear "please primary me because I listen more to greedy employers than the city's working.
The popular reaction against memorializing American racists continues, this time with the throwing of red paint on a statue of Roger Taney in Frederick, Maryland.
I'd like to remind the voters (non-voters really) of Maryland of what a good job they did last year by electing Larry Hogan governor. Because Alabama or Maryland, there's no real difference among Republicans on issues like public health. Everywhere, they like to blame public...
Thanks to an unfortunate combination of factors, Maryland has elected a Republican governor. They are already getting what they asked for. Larry Hogan has already withdrawn from regulations of phosphorous.
I did not know that Don Rumsfeld owns the plantation where Frederick Douglass was sent to be broken in the 1830s. But boy is this appropriate: The houses have names..
Glad to see Maryland following Connecticut in creating a $10.10 minimum wage. That's still too low but it's a nice jump. It also continues to build a real red state-blue state divide in wages and I wonder how big that gap will become.
Maryland legislators have introduced a bill to make the state's poultry producers pay a whole 5 cents a bird to protect the Chesapeake Bay watershed from runoff from these incredibly.
And now I know the answer thanks to Roscoe Bartlett, a Republican congressman representing Maryland's 6th District: "Not that it’s not a good idea to give students loans; it certainly.