April 18, 2011
Get my sister Sandy
And my little brother Ray
Buy a big old wagon
Gonna haul us all away
Livin' in the country
Where the mountain's high
Never comin' back here
'Til the day I die
Oh, Baltimore
Man, it's hard just to live
Oh, Baltimore
Man, it's hard just to live, just to live
Excerpt from “Baltimore” by Nina Simone
July 13, 2010
From Advancement Project Regarding
CB-36-2010
July 6, 2010
After more than three years of struggle, the taxicab industry in Prince George’s County might finally be getting a much needed overhaul. Proposed legislation from the more than 500 members of the Prince George’s County Taxi Workers Alliance (CB-36-2010) was voted out of the Council’s Transportation, Housing and Environment Committee on June 10th and was introduced on June 15th to the City Council. The bill is scheduled for a public hearing on Tuesday July 13th with a final vote immediately following.
June 23, 2010
An article in the June 11, 2010 issue of the Washington Examiner reported that D.C suburban high schools exhibit some of the highest graduation rates in comparison to the nation’s top 50 largest school districts. The statistics are based on an analysis by Education Week magazine that used the most recent data from 2007. The results were published in “Diplomas Count 2010: Graduation by the Numbers”. According to the report, Montgomery County has the highest national graduation rate among the 50 districts, with 83.1 percent of students graduating in 2007. Fairfax County comes in at a close second with a graduation rate of 82.5 percent. However, just adjacent to Montgomery County, Prince George’s County schools report a graduation rate of 59.3 percent; almost 10 percent below the national average. Baltimore was among the bottom five districts with a graduation rate of 43.4 percent.
October 4, 2006
Advancement Project and Project Vote have demanded that Maryland discontinue its unlawful practice of refusing to process, and in some cases canceling, voter registration applications where the applicant's personal information cannot be exactly matched with the Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA) or Social Security Administration (SSA) databases. Voter protection groups monitoring Maryland's voter registration processes on the ground learned that election officials have:
September 4, 2009
Maryland voters reported a total of 239 incidents of frustration or denial of voting rights in the November 2004 election. Voters in four counties reported the majority of incidents: Prince George's County (108 incidents), Baltimore County (37), MontgomeryCounty (32), and Baltimore City (19). Maryland's remaining twenty counties reported a combined total of 43 incidents.
