Joel McCord

Mar 20, 2024 | baltimorefishbowl.com | Joel McCord

Howard County is a reliably blue jurisdiction, a place where Joe Biden outdistanced Donald Trump by more than 40 percentage points in 2022 and now-Gov. Wes Moore trounced MAGA acolyte Dan Cox with nearly 70% of the vote last year. Democrats swept the State House races, County Executive and all but one County Council seat.

Mar 19, 2024 | chesapeakebaymagazine.com | Joel McCord

A new national wildlife refuge could be carved out in Southern Maryland and now is your chance to weigh in on the plan. If approved, this would be the first national wildlife refuge in the Bay region in 26 years. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is looking for about 40,000 acres of woodlands, farm fields and wetlands for the wildlife refuge. Those acres would be in sections within a much larger framework of 577,400 acres over five counties.

Mar 12, 2024 | baltimorefishbowl.com | Joel McCord

At 20 years old, Connor White is the youngest elected member of Baltimore County’s Democratic Central Committee. He’s a Quaker and grew up attending Friends meetings where participants, he said, “were always involved in politics.”“You know, write your congressman about this thing or the other thing,” White said. So, naturally, he kept it up. He said he wants to “help make change” and to “have the central committee be the beating heart of the Democratic party” in the county where he lives.

Mar 8, 2024 | chesapeakebaymagazine.com | Joel McCord

Readers of a certain age might remember something called “deposit bottles,” those soft drink bottles you could take back to the store after you’ve emptied them and get a few cents back. They could be coming back thanks to a pair of bills working their way through the Maryland General Assembly. Known as the Maryland Bottle Bill, it would lead to deposit fees of 10 cents on bottles of 24 ounces or less and 15 cents on larger bottles.

Feb 19, 2024 | chesapeakebaymagazine.com | Joel McCord

It doesn’t look like much, this 1940s era Chesapeake Bay beachfront cottage with the asbestos siding, but it once was the summer retreat of Dr. Parlett Moore, an early president of Coppin State University. And it sits on the last undeveloped piece of property that was part of a thriving Black beach resort in the days of Jim Crow segregation. Now, the city of Annapolis owns the slightly more than two-thirds of an acre parcel, purchased from Moore’s grandchildren for about $1.7 million.