Maryland: Martin

We can only hope some good comes out of this, but I am not so sure. The ACLU had threatened this some time back and now it seems it is happening. I think that in general the ability of police and HACA to ban certain people from public housing is desirable and permissible, but it has to be done in a fair and proper fashion. However, if you become a ward of the state essentially by being a public housing resident, you had better play by those rules. Although a person's home is not exactly their castle, a person's public housing apartment should not be a prison either.

Gadi Dechter is reporting this story, which is running in Thursday's print editions of the Baltimore Sun: George W. Owings III, a former Democratic delegate and party leader from Calvert County, is “actively considering a challenge” to Gov. Martin O’Malley...

The affection that big-shot attorney and native Baltimorean John Coale developed for Sarah Palin during the presidential campaign hasn’t gone away, and may be causing some problems in Sarah-land. Coale, a longtime Democratic donor who lent $500,000 to Martin O’Malley...

Yesterday, the death penalty died in Annapolis, but this one was not so loud, but at the same time, it was not so quietly.
The Baltimore Sun says that the Senate effective killed off Governor Martin O’Malley’s hopes of a complete repeal of capital punishment, 31 years after it was implemented, by agreeing to two amendments [...]