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Supreme Court of Maryland: Opioid crisis, greenhouse gas emissions
2+ week, 3+ day ago (879+ words) Daily Record Staff//April 2, 2026// BOTTOM LINE: Where Anne Arundel County sued pharmacy benefit managers, mail-order pharmacies and retail pharmacies for their alleged roles in the opioid crisis, the Supreme Court of Maryland held that the licensed dispensing of, or administration…...
Care must be taken to prevent discrimination by AI
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (497+ words) Stories about objectionable discrimination by artificial intelligence are legion. For example, Amazon's use of AI to screen resumes resulted in the AI preferring resumes of male candidates. The system gave lower grades to applicants who had, for example, attended women's…...
Sports wagering contributed over $10 M to MD education in October
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (531+ words) The sports wagering market produced over $10 million in contributions to the state's education fund last month due to a calendar packed with postseason baseball, college and professional football, and the start of professional basketball and hockey schedules, the Maryland Lottery…...
The Magna Carta: June 1215
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (945+ words) Paul Mark Sandler//October 22, 2025// The Magna Carta was signed on June 15, 1215, when King John met with the Barons at Runnymede, a meadow on the south bank of the River Thames, just outside London. It is considered one of the most…...
Nickeled and dimed: How the lowly penny's retirement impacts Marylanders
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (1054+ words) WASHINGTON " Last Wednesday, the last-ever penny was minted in Philadelphia. Here's what this means for Maryland consumers, businesses and collectors. Plans to stop the production of the penny have been in motion since February, when President Donald Trump announced he…...
Praise for violence reduction in Baltimore
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (579+ words) It's always nice to give credit where credit is due. And we give credit to the Mayor of Baltimore, the State's Attorney and the Baltimore Police Department for introducing and expanding Baltimore's "Group Violence Reduction Strategy. GVRS was introduced in…...
Baltimore seeks to disqualify inspector general's counsel in records dispute
2+ week, 5+ day ago (755+ words) Dan Belson//March 31, 2026// In a stack of Monday filings, attorneys for Baltimore City urged a judge to reject a lawsuit filed by the city's inspector general and argued that the watchdog office's hiring of outside counsel was unauthorized. The city's…...
A tale of two states: How MD shortchanges its own
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (591+ words) A tale of two states: How Maryland shortchanges its own If you are catastrophically injured in Maryland, the legislature has already decided your suffering has a limit. However, if you are catastrophically injured in neighboring states such as Pennsylvania, a…...
MD court: Public has right to names in police use-of-force records
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (991+ words) MD court: Public has right to officer names in police use-of-force records Marion Gray-Hopkins with the Coalition of Concerned Mothers speaks during a March 2021 rally promoting police reform in Annapolis. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post) The Washington Post News…...
Judges may volunteer at government animal shelters, MD ethics committee says
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (618+ words) Ian Round//April 14, 2026// Maryland judges may volunteer at government-run animal shelters, a state ethics panel decided last week. In a published opinion Thursday, the Maryland Judicial Ethics Committee granted the request of a judge who wanted to work with animals…...