Almost a million Marylanders turn out for early voting, up from past two presidential elections
Maryland saw a 14 percent increase in early voter turnout this year compared to 2016, according to the CNS analysis.
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Harris rallies before White House, makes appeal to protect democracy
“America, this is not a candidate for president who is thinking about how to make your life better,” Harris said. “This is someone who is unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance and out for unchecked power.”
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Biden touts White House successes in Baltimore visit
President Biden visited Baltimore’s Dundalk Marine Terminal on Tuesday, appearing alongside Gov. Wes Moore and other officials to reveal a $3 billion national investment in America’s ports.
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No grass, no crabs”: Maryland community grapples with Gunpowder River mud pollution
Mad About Mud organizers launched a petition in March to gauge public interest in the issue, collecting over a thousand signatures by October.
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Bear hunters say they do it for love of family, neighbors and the great outdoors
Matthew Lidie, 57, and David Lidie Sr., 63, of Baltimore County were among the first to arrive at the wildlife management area this week with a dead bear in tow. It had only taken David the first 30 minutes of his hunt to make the kill.
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On gender identity in schools, Maryland school board candidates are divided
Howard County school board candidate Trent Kittleman said that like other conservative candidates, she strongly opposes policies that allow schools to withhold information from parents when a child chooses alternate pronouns.. Kittleman is a former state delegate who lost re-election in 2022 and asked to be taken off the Moms for Liberty rolls when she began her school board campaign, Baltimore Fishbowl reported in March.
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Support for book bans varies in Maryland school board races
Meanwhile, Wicomico County banned “All Boys Are Blue,” George M. Johnson’s coming-of-age novel about a young queer boy. Frederick County banned Hopkins’ “Triangles,” which publisher Simon & Schuster described as a “surprisingly erotic” novel that includes adultery about three women’s intersecting friendships.
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Should Maryland schools ban cellphones? Here’s what school board candidates say
By Sasha Allen and Audrey Keefe FOCUS NOW! PHONES LATER,” blares the newest school cellphone policy out of Washington County.
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Maryland school board candidates push for officers, mental health services
By Emily R. Condon and Colin McNamara In Montgomery County, school board candidate Brenda M. Diaz worries that “knife-wielding vandals”
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Is Maryland’s ‘Blueprint’ the path to better schools? We asked school board candidates
A 10-year, $30 billion plan out of Annapolis, the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future aims to dramatically improve the state’s public schools by boosting teacher salaries, expanding pre-kindergarten and rewriting the curriculum — and school board candidates say the state’s schools need that improvement.
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