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The week in review: A look at the top teams, players and performances in Harford County and the surrounding area (Sept. 25-30)

North Harford girls cross countryThe Hawks won the team title in the girls medium school race at Saturday’s Bull Run Invitational at Hereford High School. The Hawks’ five scoring runners that combined for the win were Kendall Chandler (21:33), Eden Hussang (21:37), Brooklynn Eagan (22:31), Mallory McCarney (22;59 and Madilyn Coye (23:12). AdvertisementThe team total of 60 points beat out Century (70) and Atholton (87) for first place. Honorable mentionsAdvertisementPerryville girls soccer: The Panthers picked up a pair of big UCBAC wins last week, beating Patterson Mill, 3-2, on Tuesday and Fallston, 1-0, on Thursday. John Carroll boys soccer: The Patriots picked up three MIAA A Conference wins this week with wins over McDonogh, Concordia Prep and Mount Saint Joseph to climb into second place in the conference.Abigail Horsmon, Patterson Mill, girls cross country: Horsmon won the girls small school race at Saturday’s Bull Run Invitational, winning in 20:30.5. Tom Silver, Bel Air, boys volleyball: Silver set up the Bobcats’ offense in two wins last week. He had 27 assists in a three-set sweep of Patterson Mill, then 25 more in a five-set thriller over Fallston. Sarah Murrell, Perryville, Junior (Matt Button / The Aegis/Baltimore Sun Media)Sarah Murrell, Perryville, girls soccer: Murrell scored twice and assisted on the game-winning goal Tuesday against Patterson Mill, then scored the game’s only goal Thursday in an overtime win over Fallston. Roman Impagliatelli, Fallston, boys soccer: Impagliatelli broke a scoreless tie in the closing seconds of the Cougars’ win Friday over Rising Sun. Donald Mullins, North Harford football: Mullins’ 1-yard touchdown plunge in the fourth quarter was the deciding score in the Hawks’ win Friday over Harford Tech. Girls volleyballAdvertisement(Number of sets in parenthesis)Most kills in a match16 - Kyra Douglass, Fallston, Sept. 26 vs. Bohemia Manor (3)15 - Brooke Hopkins, Bel Air, Sept. 26 vs. North Harford (3)Most assists in a match39 - Emma Chasan, Fallston, Sept. 26 vs. Bohemia Manor (3)Advertisement24 - Kaitlyn Klara, John Carroll, Sept. 27 vs. Roland Park (4)24 - Zoe Valan, Patterson Mill, Sept. 28 vs. Bohemia Manor (3)Most digs in a match35 - Peyton Parise, Edgewood, Sept. 26 vs. Perryville (3)29 - Grace Pfaff, Fallston, Sept. 26 vs. Bohemia Manor (3)Most aces in a matchAdvertisement9 - Jadin Woods, Fallston, Sept. 28 vs. North Harford (4)6 - Aubrie Faulkner, Bel Air, Sept. 26 vs. North Harford (3)6 - Kayden Hardenbrook, Bel Air, Sept. 26 vs. North Harford (3)6 - Peyton Parise, Edgewood, Sept. 28 vs. North East (3)Boys volleyballMost kills in a matchAdvertisement24 - Jackson Killough, Fallston, Sept. 29 vs. Bel Air (5)13 - Will Harbaugh, Bel Air, Sept. 29 vs. Fallston (5)Most assists in a match31 - Liam McGann, Fallston, Sept. 29 vs. Bel Air (5)27 - Tom Silver, Bel Air, Sept. 27 vs. Patterson Mill (3)Most aces in a matchAdvertisement9 - Liam McGann, Fallston, Sept. 27 vs. Joppatowne (3)7 - Luke Price, Fallston, Sept. 27 vs. JoppatowneGirls soccerMost goals in a game2 - Sarah Murrell, Perryville, Sept. 26 vs. Patterson MillThe Aegis: Top storiesWeekdaysDaily highlights from Harford County's number one source for local news.Boys soccerAdvertisementMost goals in a game3 - Sebastian Ayala, Edgewood, Sept. 27 vs. Bohemia Manor3 - Max Dietz, Patterson Mill, Sept. 27 vs. Havre de GraceField hockey3 - Gabby Curriden, Fallston, Sept. 26 vs. Harford TechEditor’s note: Stats are compiled from reports submitted to The Aegis as of Monday. Coaches are encouraged to send full box scores after each game to amaluso@baltsun.com, scohn@baltsun.com and mdscores@baltsun.com.

2023-10-02T13:58:28-04:00October 2nd, 2023|

From shielding abusers to fake ballpark leases, lawyers keep verging on villainy for their clients | STAFF COMMENTARY

William Shakespeare wrote what is easily the most quoted line about the legal profession in the English language. It’s exact wording: “The first thing we do is, let’s kill all the lawyers.” The quote, from “Henry IV, Part II” is frequently cited in self-mocking jest by members of the bar. But it’s been more seriously interpreted by jurists as a defense of their profession, given that the line is uttered by a murderer named “Dick the Butcher,” who supports a rebellion and has little time for civilized behavior. Yet it also signals something more, as Shakespeare works tend to do, which is a reflection of the class struggle inherent in the work of lawyers. The rich have the attorneys, and the working folk largely do not. Of course, this doesn’t apply equally across the board. There are many lawyers doing good works for the people in the public sphere — in civil rights law, education law, animal law, employment law, immigration law and so on. But the notion that certain advocates should meet with an early demise reflects an essential and deeply frustrating disadvantage that some have when seeking to assert their rights. AdvertisementA recent example made an appearance Friday, Sept. 29, when the Archdiocese of Baltimore filed for bankruptcy in order to limit its liability in lawsuits expected to be filed by victims of child sexual abuse and their families starting this week. Many Marylanders know the history here. Over the course of 80 years, there were multiple examples of rape, torture and molestation — along with much enabling and cover-up as predators were passed around from parish to parish — within the archdiocese. The sordid history was chronicled by the Maryland Attorney General’s Office in a lengthy report released earlier this year, which spurred the Maryland General Assembly to pass the Child Victims Act, which took effect Sunday and removes the statute of limitations on when childhood sexual abuse victims may sue perpetrators. Yet now lawyers are, admittedly at the direction of the Church, using the law to once again shield those who have influence, money and power against those who do not. It requires no excess of empathy to imagine the frustration of those who suffered terrible injury and now face an additional barrier to their chance to correct (if only monetarily) past wrongs.That’s not to suggest the Catholic Church should not have legal counsel. But there are times when one has to question how level the legal playing field is. Consider, for example, that this is the first week of a new term for the U.S. Supreme Court. There are all kinds of important matters on the docket from the possible regulation of social media, to abortion rights and the powers of the executive branch. Know what has not yet gotten on the agenda? That would be the ethics of the justices themselves. Billionaires seem to have extraordinary access to certain members of this elite group and are able to shower them with gifts and lavish trips. Those without private jets don’t get this kind of preferred treatment. Raise this inequity, and the right-wing calls you a communist. Never mind that recent polls reflect the broader public’s increasing frustration with the court: A historically low 41% of respondents approve of how the court does its job, according to Gallup, and 75% of Americans would support a binding ethics code on the court, according to a Politico/Morning Consult survey.AdvertisementYou want cynicism about the law? For Baltimoreans, it may have reached a new high in recent days when their beloved Baltimore Orioles, on the same night the team clinched a division title, announced that a “deal” had been struck to keep the team in Baltimore for 30 years. One day later, state officials revealed what had been inked was a nonbinding “memorandum of understanding,” a legal document that has all the weight of two-ply bathroom tissue. Is it mere coincidence that Orioles CEO and Chair John Angelos is a lawyer? Wethinks not.Now add to all this questionable legal maneuvering these two circumstances: 1.) The exasperation of watching a dysfunctional Congress, which makes and changes laws, and is made up of a lot of lawyers (30% of the House and 51% of the Senate), nearly fail to do the most basic of its functions — to keep the federal government funded; and 2.) a presidential election where the leading Republican candidate is facing a staggering number of criminal indictments and forking over enormous sums (of other people’s money) to finance his legal team. Suddenly, Dick the Butcher looks like a prophet. Baltimore Sun editorial writers offer opinions and analysis on news and issues relevant to readers. They operate separately from the newsroom.

2023-10-02T13:00:07-04:00October 2nd, 2023|

Folk music icon Bob Dylan to perform two shows in Baltimore for Thanksgiving weekend

Folk singing legend Bob Dylan is bringing his “Rough and Rowdy Ways” to Baltimore for two shows on Thanksgiving weekend.The 82-year-old singer brings his tour, named after his 39th album, to Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Nov. 24 and 25, according to a Baltimore Symphony Orchestra news release.AdvertisementTickets will go on sale Friday at bsomusic.org/events. Prices have not yet been announced, but in other venues on the tour, tickets have started at around $60.“Rough and Rowdy Ways” was Dylan’s first album since the songwriter picked up the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature, and Rolling Stone called it “an absolute classic” that possessed “the bleak majesty of latter-day Dylan albums ... yet it goes beyond them, tapping even deeper into cosmic American mysteries.”AdvertisementThe songwriter has played Baltimore several times in his half-century career, most recently in 2019 when he brought his Never-Ending Tour to the University of Maryland Baltimore County.Though the concert will be at the Meyerhoff, the BSO will not be performing with the singer. Dylan’s appearances will launch the “Live at the Meyerhoff” performance series in which the organization will rent out its acoustically pristine hall for popular music concerts and other events, the release said.

2023-10-02T13:00:15-04:00October 2nd, 2023|

Folk music icon Bob Dylan to perform two shows in Baltimore for Thanksgiving weekend

Folk singing legend Bob Dylan is bringing his “Rough and Rowdy Ways” to Baltimore for two shows on Thanksgiving weekend.The 82-year-old singer brings his tour, named after his 39th album, to Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Nov. 24 and 25, according to a Baltimore Symphony Orchestra news release.AdvertisementTickets will go on sale Friday at bsomusic.org/events. Prices have not yet been announced, but in other venues on the tour, tickets have started at around $60.“Rough and Rowdy Ways” was Dylan’s first album since the songwriter picked up the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature, and Rolling Stone called it “an absolute classic” that possessed “the bleak majesty of latter-day Dylan albums ... yet it goes beyond them, tapping even deeper into cosmic American mysteries.”AdvertisementThe songwriter has played Baltimore several times in his half-century career, most recently in 2019 when he brought his Never-Ending Tour to the University of Maryland Baltimore County.Though the concert will be at the Meyerhoff, the BSO will not be performing with the singer. Dylan’s appearances will launch the “Live at the Meyerhoff” performance series in which the organization will rent out its acoustically pristine hall for popular music concerts and other events, the release said.

2023-10-02T12:59:27-04:00October 2nd, 2023|

Atlas Restaurant Group plans new restaurant, new headquarters in Harbor East

Baltimore’s Atlas Restaurant Group will open a new restaurant next to a planned new corporate headquarters in Harbor East.Both will be housed in the E.J. Codd Company building at 700 S. Caroline St., the restaurant group said Monday. Atlas, founded in 2010, has been headquartered at 650 S. Exeter St., just a few blocks away, since 2019.AdvertisementThe historic E.J. Codd building, constructed in the 1850s and once used as a machine shop where workers assembled boilers, propellers and engines for ships, was more recently home to Pazo and then Bar Vasquez, two Foreman Wolf restaurants.The new, 120-seat Atlas restaurant will be “moderately priced” and will occupy 6,000 square feet of the building, with décor by interior designer Patrick Sutton, the restaurant group said. A name and concept for the dining spot, slated to open in late 2024, “will be announced at a later date.”AdvertisementAnother 15,000 square feet will be converted to office space for Atlas’ new headquarters, which is also expected to open next year.In a statement, Alex Smith called the move “a testament to our enduring commitment to Baltimore.”“Baltimore is not only our home, but it’s also our foundation,” he said. “We believe in the potential of this city, and we are committed to being an integral part of its growth and success.” Smith and his brother Eric Smith, a co-owner of the restaurant group, are the grandsons of John Paterakis Sr., the H&S Bakery magnate and developer of Harbor East.The new restaurant will be the 23rd in the Baltimore region for Atlas, which also operates concepts like Tagliata, The Choptank and The Bygone. The company plans to open two new Harbor East spots, a steakhouse called The Ruxton and Order of the Ace, a cocktail bar, in December.Atlas also has restaurant properties in Washington, D.C., Houston and Boca Raton, Florida, and will expand to Philadelphia later this month.

2023-10-02T12:08:26-04:00October 2nd, 2023|

Atlas Restaurant Group plans new restaurant, new headquarters in Harbor East

Baltimore’s Atlas Restaurant Group will open a new restaurant next to a planned new corporate headquarters in Harbor East.Both will be housed in the E.J. Codd Company building at 700 S. Caroline St., the restaurant group said Monday. Atlas, founded in 2010, has been headquartered at 650 S. Exeter St., just a few blocks away, since 2019.AdvertisementThe historic E.J. Codd building, constructed in the 1850s and once used as a machine shop where workers assembled boilers, propellers and engines for ships, was more recently home to Pazo and then Bar Vasquez, two Foreman Wolf restaurants.The new, 120-seat Atlas restaurant will be “moderately priced” and will occupy 6,000 square feet of the building, with décor by interior designer Patrick Sutton, the restaurant group said. A name and concept for the dining spot, slated to open in late 2024, “will be announced at a later date.”AdvertisementAnother 15,000 square feet will be converted to office space for Atlas’ new headquarters, which is also expected to open next year.In a statement, Alex Smith called the move “a testament to our enduring commitment to Baltimore.”“Baltimore is not only our home, but it’s also our foundation,” he said. “We believe in the potential of this city, and we are committed to being an integral part of its growth and success.” Smith and his brother Eric Smith, a co-owner of the restaurant group, are the grandsons of John Paterakis Sr., the H&S Bakery magnate and developer of Harbor East.The new restaurant will be the 23rd in the Baltimore region for Atlas, which also operates concepts like Tagliata, The Choptank and The Bygone. The company plans to open two new Harbor East spots, a steakhouse called The Ruxton and Order of the Ace, a cocktail bar, in December.Atlas also has restaurant properties in Washington, D.C., Houston and Boca Raton, Florida, and will expand to Philadelphia later this month.

2023-10-02T12:07:45-04:00October 2nd, 2023|

Sexual abuse survivors and advocates: Here’s what we want to say to Md.’s Catholic parishioners | GUEST COMMENTARY

All of the sexual abuse survivors and supporters we know have been devastated by the news on Friday, Sept. 29, that the Archdiocese of Baltimore (AOB) was filing for bankruptcy protection. Even though this was not unexpected, the timing was certainly a shock. Of note: The new Child Victim’s Act had not even gone into effect. It was scheduled to officially be law Sunday, Oct. 1st. We thought they would at least wait to see how many claims might be filed by church abuse survivors before saying they could not afford to pay them. It is another retraumatizing event and another effort to hurt and gaslight survivors.Some of us were asked by a reporter at a news conference on Thursday (related to the newly released partially unredacted Attorney General’s report chronicling decades of sexual abuse against hundreds of children) what we would like to say to Archbishop William E. Lori. At the time we all said, “Just do the right thing!” Now we extend our response to “what would we like to say to the parishioners of the Catholic Churches all over Maryland.”Advertisement— Betsy Schindler, on behalf of Maryland sexual abuse survivors and their supporters.Betsy Schindler is a member of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, which she joined to support her husband, Frank Schindler, and others. Here, she is photographed near the Baltimore Basilica. (Kenneth K. Lam/Baltimore Sun)At one point I was back in therapy to deal with issues related to childhood sexual abuse in my family, struggling with intense feelings of guilt and shame and self-blame. I kept wondering as a 5-year-old what I could have done differently to have a different childhood. My therapist told me to find a playground with 5-year-old children and look at them. Could you really see these children and feel any sense of blame or guilt for anything that happened to them?AdvertisementI say this now to the people who faithfully attend Catholic Churches throughout the state of Maryland. Look at your children or your grandchildren or even children in the church who are 5 years old or 8 years old or 11 years old or 15 years old. Would you blame any of them if someone were to sexually assault them? Would you blame them if priests, who are said to be God on earth, were to harm them and cover it up and silence them? What would you advise them to do if they were now adults and seeking justice and healing? Would you really tell them to just let it go and forget about it, knowing that is literally impossible to do when you experience trauma?Justice does not only come with a prison sentence or a financial settlement, but those are the only two legal ways for clergy sexual abuse survivors to seek justice in the U.S. system. Most survivors I know want the name of their predator exposed, those who protected the predator exposed and an apology from both. They want their day in court. I know the Catholic Church and many other institutions like to say that people “only want money,” but I know most people ask for money because it is the only option available to them. They will not get their apology. They will likely not get their day in court if the bankruptcy filing is successful. They may get a small lump sum of money, but no justice. Think about how you would feel if this was your son or daughter; your grandchild.The bankruptcy filing is unfair and unjust. The efforts of the Church to protect itself from transparency only further traumatizes survivors. Please help survivors and oppose the efforts of the AOB to deny justice.— Betsy SchindlerThe writer is a childhood sexual abuse survivor and victim advocate.Maryland SNAP Leader David Lorenz speaks at a press conference in front of the Baltimore Basilica about the Child Victim’s Act and the idea of Archdiocese of Baltimore declaring bankruptcy before the first case is even filed. (Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun)In filing for bankruptcy, the Archdiocese of Baltimore and Archbishop William E. Lori indicate that they estimate between 1,000 and 5,000 creditors. The Attorney General report on child sexual abuse in the archdiocese states that they investigated over 600 cases of abuse. As awful and horrendous as 600 children being raped and sodomized it, it is a much smaller number than 1,000 to 5,000.In all of his defense claims of how the diocese has fully cooperated with the A.G. and been open and honest about this crisis, never once did Lori mention that the number 600 was significantly lower than what he expected. Never once, in all of the heartfelt letters to parishioners, did he mention that there were up to 5,000 victims rather than 600. He just let that number 600 sit in everyone’s consciousness. He still has not sent out a letter to individual parishioners stating that he allowed them to be misled by the number 600 and that the actual number could be almost nine times that figurer.Lori has been disingenuous and is constantly dissembling on this issue. It’s time that he come clean on everything the diocese knows, opens up his files and explains why he believes the number is 5,000. And then he should resign and beg forgiveness not just from the victims but from every parishioner he has misled.Advertisement— David LorenzThe writer is a clergy sexual abuse survivor and advocate, and the leader of Maryland’s Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP).I think it is important for parishioners to know that their money is going to pay the legal fees of predators. I don’t think people understand that when they throw money in the basket or deposit into “faith direct” that the Church is using that to lawyer up against victims.— AnonymousThe writer is a family member of a child sexually abused by clergy.David Schappelle, shown here as an 8-year-old boy in 1985, says he is a survivor of child sexual abuse and rape by a Catholic priest when he was 9, in Gaithersburg, Maryland, which is part of the Washington D.C. Archdiocese. I would like to know if parishioners want some of their money to go to survivors. It seems like a big talking point Archbishop William E. Lori uses is: “your money will not go to fund the victims but will go to the Catholic missions and charities.” Why not? What if parishioners want to help survivors? What if parishioners said, I want to help the survivors if the Church doesn’t really want to. Can a special collection box be made in parishes so that people can choose whether their donations go to fund survivors or go to fund mystery box?Advertisement— David SchapelleDavid Schapelle is a clergy sexual abuse survivor and advocate.Teresa F. Lancaster says she was among those abused as a student at Baltimore’s now shuttered Archbishop Keough High School in the late 1960s and early '70s. Her story was featured in the Netflix documentary “The Keepers.” She has been seeking justice for victims of childhood sexual abuse since the 1990s. (Kenneth K. Lam/Baltimore Sun)We have individuals born into Catholicism who grew up wholly devoted to the Church. They were adorned in elegant white dresses and veils, participating in the Holy Sacraments that defined their entire childhood. They learned to confess their sins at the tender age of 7, were taught to love God with all their hearts, and believed priests were God’s representatives on earth. Imagine how these same children felt when the very essence of their faith, the priests, engaged in inappropriate sexual acts with them — acts they didn’t comprehend, acts for which they had no words. These sexual acts were even presented to them by your priests as manifestations of the Holy Spirit.Today, the Archdiocese of Baltimore can do something to help heal these children, now grown into adults. The Church can acknowledge its mistakes and take responsibility for the torment that still haunts them. The Church instilled in us values like love and doing the right thing. Yet, it now employs bankruptcy to shield its millions in assets. The Church seem indifferent to the victims who have struggled their entire lives to make sense of what happened to them. It appears to be solely concerned with amassing wealth.At the same time, no amount of money can ever compensate these victims for the time stolen from them, the shattered dreams and their ongoing struggles to maintain their sanity and trust. Nevertheless, it would be a starting point, a way to say, “I hear you, and I care.”Instead, the Archdiocese of Baltimore exploits financial loopholes, much like failed businesses do, further harming the victims. I say: Shame on them. Church officials are once again mistreating the very people who have suffered deeply due to their negligence and hypocrisy.Advertisement— Teresa LancasterThe writer is a clergy sexual abuse survivor, lawyer and advocate.Frank Schindler is a member of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. He says he was abused by a priest as a 5-year-old kindergartener while living in New York City, which he recalled in fragments for years, finally understanding the extent of what happened in his mid-40s. He advocates for justice for survivors in Maryland and elsewhere. (Kenneth K. Lam/Baltimore Sun)Archbishop William E. Lori has justified declaring bankruptcy by stating that this is the only course that would allow the “good works” of the Catholic Church to continue. He is therefore saying that the only reason dedicated, caring Catholics do good things is because he and the Archdiocese sanction those actions. Otherwise, the actions would not be done. This totally dismisses parishioners as the actual authors of those good works. This is both arrogant and demeaning. And it is also not true.— Frank Schindler, BaltimoreThe writer is a clergy sexual abuse survivor and advocate.Jean Hargadon Wehner says she was among those abused as a student at Baltimore’s now shuttered Archbishop Keough High School in the late 1960s and early '70s. Here, photographed near the Baltimore Basilica, she holds a photo of herself as a student. Her story was featured in the Netflix documentary “The Keepers.” Her memoir of surviving the abuse, "Walking with Aletheia," was published last year. (Kenneth K. Lam/Baltimore Sun)In 1992 I came forward as a Catholic parishioner with allegations of sex abuse by priests Joseph Maskell and Neil Magnus at Archbishop Keough High School decades earlier. The Archdiocese of Baltimore representatives told me I was the first to voice a complaint of this type about Maskell, and I believed them. If you read the Attorney General’s report of 2023 you know: THEY LIED!AdvertisementArchbishop Lori and his gang have never taken responsibility for protecting predator priests within the Catholic Church, like Maskell and Magnus, for decades. And now that survivors of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church can finally hold them accountable in a court of law, the cowards slither their way out of it by filing bankruptcy. It is time this organization answer for their crimes of colluding with child sex abusers within the Catholic Church. Love for one another demands this!— Jean Hargadon WehnerThe writer is a clergy sex abuse survivor and advocate.

2023-10-02T10:59:36-04:00October 2nd, 2023|

Mariah Carey to perform holiday concert at CFG Bank Arena in December

If all you want is for Mariah Carey to perform a holiday concert in Baltimore, then it’s a Christmas miracle because your wish has been granted.Carey, the singer and songwriter behind the global megahit and earworm “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” will bring her holiday show “Merry Christmas One and All!” to CFG Bank Arena on Friday, Dec. 15.AdvertisementThe 13-city tour begins in November and includes East Coast stops in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston.Ticket presales begin Wednesday at 10 a.m. General ticket sales begin Friday at 10 a.m.AdvertisementCarey’s holiday anthem finally hit the top of the Billboard 100 in 2019, 25 years after it was released. Billboard also placed the song at the top of its list of the Greatest of All Time Holiday 100 Songs.

2023-10-02T10:59:43-04:00October 2nd, 2023|

Mariah Carey to perform holiday concert at CFG Bank Arena in December

If all you want is for Mariah Carey to perform a holiday concert in Baltimore, then it’s a Christmas miracle because your wish has been granted.Carey, the singer and songwriter behind the global megahit and earworm “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” will bring her holiday show “Merry Christmas One and All!” to CFG Bank Arena on Friday, Dec. 15.AdvertisementThe 13-city tour begins in November and includes East Coast stops in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston.Ticket presales begin Wednesday at 10 a.m. General ticket sales begin Friday at 10 a.m.AdvertisementCarey’s holiday anthem finally hit the top of the Billboard 100 in 2019, 25 years after it was released. Billboard also placed the song at the top of its list of the Greatest of All Time Holiday 100 Songs.

2023-10-02T10:58:55-04:00October 2nd, 2023|

Federal judge halts portions of gun law to go in effect on Sunday

A federal judge limited portions of a law restricting where people with concealed licenses can carry handguns Friday, only two days before it will be enacted.“This is a huge win for the Second Amendment and for all law-abiding firearms owners in Maryland,” House Minority Whip Jesse Pippy said in a statement. “This decision is also a vindication for the members of our Caucus who fought so hard to defeat this bill.”AdvertisementA conjoined court case of Maryland residents and Second Amendment rights organizations filed a lawsuit against Democratic Gov. Wes Moore and members of his executive cabinet earlier this year, alleging that Senate Bill 1, which Moore signed in May, violates their constitutional right to carry a firearm for protection.Sponsored by Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee Vice Chair Jeff Waldstreicher, a Democrat from Montgomery County, Senate Bill 1 aims to prohibit people with concealed carry permits from bringing firearms into public and private elementary, middle or high schools, health care facilities, buildings owned or leased by the state or local government, public or private university buildings, active polling places, electrical plants or electrical storage facilities, gas plants, nuclear power facilities, stadiums, museums, racetracks, video lottery facilities, venues that serve alcohol or cannabis for on-site consumption, and private property unless the owner has given permission to do so.AdvertisementUnder Friday’s ruling, people with concealed carry permits will still be able to bring their concealed firearms to establishments that sell alcohol, onto private property without the owner’s consent and within 1,000 feet of a protest or demonstration, regardless of the law going into effect on Sunday.“The Court has recognized that so many of the restrictions the far-left wing of the General Assembly tried to place on lawful, peaceful gun owners went way beyond the bounds of what is constitutionally allowed,” House Minority Leader Jason Buckel said in a statement Friday. “During the debate on Senate Bill 1, the members of the House Republican Caucus repeatedly and exhaustively warned our Democratic colleagues that parts of this bill went too far.”Firearms are still prohibited in all other locations deemed sensitive under the legislation.In addition to Senate Bill 1, Marylanders can anticipate changes to the application process for concealed carry permits and higher penalties for storing loaded guns where they should reasonably know a minor may have access to it. All three bills will go into effect on Sunday.In response to Friday’s ruling, the Moore administration said in a statement that the court continued to uphold many reforms that he “advocated for in order to make communities in Maryland safer from the gun violence epidemic that has plagued this state for far too long.”“As a father, and as the chief executive of this state, this is an issue that is of the utmost importance to the governor and he will continue to fight for the necessary measures to protect Maryland’s children and make this state safer for everyone,” said the administration.Originally Published: Sep 29, 2023 at 7:40 pm

2023-10-02T10:01:12-04:00October 2nd, 2023|
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