Steve Crane
Editor-in-chief at Maryland Matters
Editor-in-chief, Maryland Matters (@marylandmatters); word geek; coffee, politics and JellyBelly junkie, in that order.
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3 days ago |
marylandmatters.org | Kalman R. Hettleman |Steve Crane
Here’s an oddity. For all that has been said about the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, there has been hardly a word about class size. The subject has not even been debated. That’s a shocker. Common sense supports lower class sizes: The fewer the students in class, the more attention teachers can pay to individual student needs. Teachers almost unanimously think “smaller classes would strongly boost student learning.”So why the omission in the Blueprint?
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1 week ago |
marylandmatters.org | Bryan P. Sears |Steve Crane
As far as Ed Hale is concerned, it’s all over but the paperwork. Hale, the current owner of the Baltimore Blast indoor soccer team and a longtime city banker and business owner, said he is committed to mounting a Democratic primary challenge in 2026 to Gov. Wes Moore (D), at the urging of friends who he said are worried about the future of the state.
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2 weeks ago |
marylandmatters.org | Steve Crane
Maryland was one of the lead states in a coalition of 24 states and the District of Columbia that sued the Trump administration Tuesday in an effort to block its push to “dismantle” AmeriCorps, the domestic volunteer service agency.
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2 weeks ago |
marylandmatters.org | Steve Crane
By Robert StewartSophia Wilcox’s work to bring her Afghan team to the U.S. has always been difficult. Now, the pressure is mounting even more. The Taliban is targeting Afghans who worked with the U.S., including those who worked with the University of Maryland. Neighboring countries like Pakistan and Iran are cracking down on harboring Afghan refugees. At the same time, President Donald Trump is imposing a freeze on admitting refugees to the U.S.It’s a humanitarian disaster, and the stakes are high.
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3 weeks ago |
marylandmatters.org | Steve Crane
Gov. Wes Moore (D) signed a suite of justice reform bills into law Tuesday that will make it easier for long-serving inmates to apply for parole, make age and illness a factor in parole considerations and streamline the process for people seeking to expunge their records after serving their time.
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