Squandered Promise

It’s a good bet that Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh will be running for re-election in 2020. Why shouldn’t she? Incumbents are always hard to beat. She’ll have plenty of developer and other business money to fund her campaign. She’ll win the Democratic Primary and that will be that.

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Real Emergencies

Our President has recently called into question the common sense understanding of what constitutes an emergency or crisis. Is, for example, the lack of a wall across our southern border really as disconcerting as, let’s say, the abuse of opioids? Or the fact that 1 out of 8 women in the United States will develop breast cancer in her lifetime?

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No-brainer.

Some choices are difficult for our legislature to make. This one is a no-brainer.

On one hand we have two counties ¬– Prince George’s and Baltimore City – that are desperately short of the funding they need to give their children even a minimum quality education. Of the 24 counties in the state, including Baltimore City, their public education systems are ranked 23rd and 24th respectively.

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The pie chart.

Given a choice between investing in horse racing or our children’s education, which one do you pick?

I don’t know about you, but I like pie. Cherry pie, in particular, apple and key lime, but also pizza and charts.

Hey. As you may know, we did some work recently having to do with the MGM National Harbor casino.

“So what? …I’m hungry and I thought this post had something to do with pie.”

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