the Best Politicians Money Can Buy

 

I have a secret

There was a time when Maryland had a reputation for having the best politicians money can buy.  I was thinking things had gotten better but then along came State Senator Ulysses Currie who had demonstrated the new, modern way of corruption.

Let’s review the facts.  Senator Currie was elected by [...]

Change needed in Annapolis

The hits just keep on coming for the Maryland State Police.  Yet more embarrassing revelations surfaced the other day in their long running spying scandal.  The State Police can't seem to make this problem go away and there's a good reason for that.  They still won't admit it was wrong.

Let's back up a bit and look [...]

Beer

Some 100 college presidents, including six from Maryland have again raised the question of what is the proper age to allow legal consumption of alcohol.  Predictably, their proposal to revisit the issue has raised a storm of protest from those who don't want to even debate the issue – their mind is made up. 

Now [...]

Lubyanka on the Severn


The Baltimore Sun, Washington Post and a host of other newspapers report today that the Maryland State Police have repeatedly spied on groups opposed to the death penalty or opposed to the war.  Despite the fact that the police spies reported no plans for illegal activity or any illegal activity itself, the State Police [...]

General Assembly Results – Criminal Justice

This is the first of a series of posts that will examine the results of the recently completed Maryland General Assembly session. 

There was not a lot of activity in the criminal justice area in this session.  The major piece of legislation – to allow DNA samples to be taken from those accused of [...]

The General Assembly Tackles Crime and Punishment

Well, actually they haven’t.  With about two weeks left in the session and high initial hopes for some initiatives it looks like our political leaders have niftily avoided having to take a position on most majore issues.

The big issue, of course, was abolition of the death penalty in Maryland.  The state has had an [...]