A group of families joined the Maryland Crime Victims Resource Center to voice their opposition to “second look” policies for criminal sentencing, which the.
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Gov. Larry Hogan vetoed a bill this week that would have decriminalized certain drug paraphernalia, including needles and syringes.
In his veto letter, the Republican governor called the bill dangerous, saying it would do nothing to remove drug dealers from our streets or reduce opioid-related fatalities.
Democrats and advocates for the bill quickly expressed frustration with the veto.
Sen. Jill P. Carter, a Baltimore Democrat who sponsored the legislation, pledged on Twitter to override Hogan s veto. Democrats hold veto-proof majorities in both houses of the General Assembly.
The legislation would have removed hypodermic syringes, needles and other items used to administer drugs via injection from the state s definition of controlled paraphernalia.
Police said Andre Giles, 31, of Essex, was shot on Jan. 28 in the 400 block of E. Baltimore St., a stretch of strip clubs and adult stores known as The Block.
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State Roundup: Restaurants shrug over potential cicada onslaught
The Talbot County courthouse with the Talbot Boys Confederate statue on the left and county native Frederick Douglass on the right. A lawsuit has been filed to remove the Confederate statue which the county council has declined to do. Photo by Blink of Anaye with Flickr Creative Commons License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/
CICADA ONSLAUGHT OF NO CONCERN OF RESTAURANTS: Many Marylanders are becoming more and more apprehensive about the prospect of millions of harmless little insects known as cicadas flooding the state in the coming weeks but the president and CEO of the Restaurant Association of Maryland is not one of them, writes Bryan Renbaum of Maryland Reporter. In fact, Marshall Weston said Wednesday that he has not heard “any restaurant express any concern about the cicadas whatsoever.”