Maryland

A Maryland jury awarded a family $1.26 million Tuesday after deciding a cop wrongly shot and killed their dog, Vernon, on February 1, 2014 – the largest award in American history for such a case.
“The verdict sends a strong message to the police about community expectations,” attorney Carl J. Hansel said after the verdict, according to the Capital Gazette.
“The duty to serve and protect extends to our animal family members as well.”

(ANTIMEDIA) In Baltimore, there’s a self-driving machine that’s pulling garbage from the river — and they call it Mr. Trash Wheel. That’s because, quite literally, it’s a water wheel being powered by the river’s current.

Women petition and urge Congress to support common sense rape survivor rights. (Photo: Change.org)
A nightmare scenario where a rape survivor will have to seek permission from her rapist in order to gain custody of her child will continue to be law in Maryland as an all-male group of legislators blocked passage of a bill protecting women and their children against rapists’ parental rights Monday.

A machine mixes sand and water, left, before it is pumped underground during a hydraulic fracturing operation.
The U.S. state of Maryland has outlawed fracking Wednesday after the Republican governor signed a bill against the cheap oil exploration practice that had passed through the Democrat-controlled state congress, a victory for environmentalists who have been organizing against fracking for years.

Howard County, Maryland managed to cut soda sales by 20% and fruit drink sales by 15% between January 2013 and December 2015 without levying a soda tax. The county’s methods could serve as a blueprint for other areas of the country that wish to do the same. [1]

Missing girls, fake flyers and exhuming presidents + this day in history w/the Bushy knoll and our song of the day by Slowdive on your Morning Monarchy for March 30, 2017.

On March 10, Maryland’s House of Delegates passed legislation to ban hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, 97 to 40. The bill’s next hurdle is the Senate, where a key lawmaker has resisted efforts to permanently prohibit the practice. [1]

A 14-year-old Maryland girl was gang-raped by two older teens, one of whom is an illegal immigrant.
Fox New’s Tucker Carlson interviews a Baltimore councilman who wants to make law enforcement kinder and gentler, as a Maryland community tries to make sense of a horrific crime against a young, 14 year old student.

Tucker Carlson opens the segment…

“This is insanity of course. This is the sign of a sick nation at war with itself.”
A strong country enforces its laws and protects its citizens, that’s job one.”

Executive Vice President sounds so much better than "lobbyist sleaze bag"At the very end of February, we ran an exhaustive piece on the dangers of electing Kathleen Matthews, Chris Matthews lobbyist wife, chair of the state Democratic Party. Short version: the Democratic Party needs fewer vile millionaire elitists running the party, not more.

“No matter how you wrap it, racism is still racism, and a ban targeting any group based on its religion still violates equal protection of the laws.”
Human rights and immigration advocates cheered early Thursday as President Donald Trump’s travel ban saw a second decisive legal defeat in a Maryland court.