Sun: Making oversight law retroactive could have saved Rajahnthon Haynie
DNA-testing backlog clogs up the system
Frederick Allen Christian of the city charged with killing his "girlfriend" in Virginia
Hermann: it's not just the city but the whole state that's effed
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City council to take up the issue of the mysterious Baltimore City Foundation tonight at 5
... and March 25 (Thursday after next) author Antero Pietila will be in the Pratt's Poe Room to talk about his book Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City
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If you read the Haynie article in the Sun, way at the bottom of it you find this rather boring paragraph:
Legislators introduced bills in 2006 and 2007 that would have matched up caseworkers with troubled families before, or shortly after, a new child was born. But those bills died in committee because of several factors: political disputes between state and city officials, budget woes and concerns that they might prove too invasive for families that had rebuilt their lives.
Normally I would just roll my eyes and keep reading, but this type of paragraph seems to be popping up more and more when it comes to legislation happening in Annapolis. The reason the citizenry of Maryland isn't getting a lot of good new laws is because our esteemed and well-paid lawmakers are doing a lot of shoulder shrugging and not passing the legislation we desperately need. We don't get new environmental laws to clean the bay because the proposed bills are "flawed". For the same reason this state can't see to pass any type of cellphone while driving law. Children are at risk because a law "might prove to be too invasive", whatever that means. New Maryland drunk driving laws? Forget it...potentially flawed.
I can only assume our lawmakers are incredibly lazy and a caving to pressure by powerful lobbyists who are hired by people who don't want anything to change. The lawmakers want to take credit for looking like they are doing some work, and maybe they do. But at the end of the day nothing changes, the bay is still polluted, kids are getting their skulls cracked, Miriam Fankl got squashed like bug and I was nearly killed a month ago by my phone-talking blabbermouth of a neighbor. All because Annapolis is terrified of what might happen in the future.
"I can only assume our lawmakers are incredibly lazy and a caving to pressure by powerful lobbyists who are hired by people who don't want anything to change."
No. The legislature is full of shysters who have made millions on the laws as they stand. Any changes to these laws will affect their bottom line.
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