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Baltimore County executive candidates Vicki Almond and Jim Brochin traded allegations Thursday of accepting unsavory campaign donations.

I attended a town hall meeting on March 28 in Hampstead and spoke with Congressman Andy Harris regarding the crisis of gun violence in our schools, throughout our state and across our nation. I shared the inspiration I felt from the courage, eloquence and passion I witnessed at the March for Our L

How low can some people go in their defense of the NRA? Pretty low, evidently. It seems that attacking kids in high school is not below their standards.

There’s a lot at stake in the June Democratic primary vote for the Baltimore county executive. The county faces big, pressing issues. Of the three Democratic candidates running for county executive, only one has put these issues front and center in his campaign: John Olszewski Jr.

Baltimore County executive candidate says Parkland shooting demonstrates need for reasonable restrictions on guns.

Jim Brochin is hardly a leader in the ongoing effort to assert sensible gun safety laws in Maryland.

In this year’s elections across the nation, voters have the opportunity to set things straight by electing lawmakers who will stand up to the NRA and enact sensible gun laws. In Baltimore County voters, the choice is between Jim Brochin and Johnny Olszewski Jr. in the county executive race.

The bump stock — an obscure gun accessory that became infamous when a mass killer in Las Vegas used one to speed up his lethal rate of fire — would be banned in Maryland under legislation passed by the General Assembly Wednesday.

Two big news events happened last weekend — the March for our Lives and the 60 Minutes interview with Stormy Daniels. One was a lot more important than the other, Jules Witcover writes.

Why do we keep acting like the best we can do is respond to school shootings, not prevent them, Leonard Pitts writes.

Making up facts to callously ridicule Florida shooting victims might mark a new low by Second Amendment supremacist bipeds (as the term "human" no longer applies).

A Democrat running in Maryland’s open 6th Congressional District said Wednesday that Congress must do more to promote federal studies of gun violence, including setting aside money for that research.

The school shooting in Great Mills, Md., ended when the gunman took his own life. That doesn't change anything about the conclusions we should draw about the incident.

Saturday changed everything. The huge demonstration by teenagers against gun violence held in Washington, D.C., was echoed by supportive demonstrations across the country and around the world, 800 in all.

Harford County participants in March for Our Lives give their reactions.

With thousands of protesting students in the background, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh appeared on MSNBC during the March For Our Lives rally in Washington to call on Congress to listen to the voices of young people.

Less than six weeks after one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history — and four days after two students were shot at a school in St. Mary’s County — organizers of the March for Our Lives rally hoped the event would draw hundreds of thousands.

Students from Baltimore Polytechnic Institute led a large crowd that stretched through blocks of downtown, through the Inner Harbor, for a local version of the national March For Our Lives protest Saturday.

Security is playing a bigger role in school design in the wake of school shootings and other tragedies

Coverage of the March for Our Lives in Washington is going to feel like it is everywhere — especially on TV. And the coverage matters, journalistically and culturally.

Shooting in Great Mills underscores need to take steps to keep students safe - including sensible gun laws.

Students and others coming to protest gun violence should not follow current D.C. fashion when it comes to facts.

While Zuckerberg sounded like he was saying some of the right things in the CNN interview about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, his record on matters of social responsibility and stewardship of personal data contributed by members of his Facebook community is dismal.

One can't help but be proud of the Parkland kids: They are doing what their elders should have, says Leonard Pitts Jr.

In America we are careful to regulate products that can be harmful or can be used in harmful ways. Toys are designed for safety, cars are routinely inspected, , medications are tested and controlled. Yet guns, which can kill or maim in an instant, are widely accessible and poorly managed.

You might say that what Andrea Koller did that night in New York, and what she lived to talk about, personifies what thousands of women in red T-shirts have set out to do across the country: Protect their young.

Baltimore mayor: As we experience yet another tragic school shooting, this time in our own backyard at Great Mills High School in Lexington Park, Md., we can take heart knowing that an unanticipated force has emerged in these early days of 2018: the force of our young people demanding change.

Arming teachers and putting more guns in schools will only put children in greater danger.

Compromise is the key and I’m praying that each side will be willing to listen to the other and work out a solution. On one thing we can all agree: no one wants more deaths to occur. Enough is enough.

In the latest gun control debate, Donald Trump is once again playing fast and loose with the truth, says Jules Witcover.

The Maryland House of Delegates passed three gun-control laws late Thursday, banning 'bump stocks,' creating a 'red flag law' to seize guns from people deemed dangerous and making sure people convicted of domestic violence surrender their firearms.

As students across the country walked out of school to protest gun violence Wednesday, state lawmakers in Annapolis advanced four gun related bills, two of them in direct response to mass shootings.

Student protest against gun violence - changing the world isn't supposed to be easy.

The last time local residents debated gun control in Howard County, it was in 2015 when County Executive Allan Kittleman signed a law banning firearms from county property. Now the debate is back and growing, including both how to improve gun safety and school security.

The American people are usually critical of their government and periodically they change parties in power just because they can. After the Obama years, people were unhappy with government so that many voted Republican.

This title is quoted from Isaiah's messianic prophecy for Israel's journey out of darkness into light is a tribute to the youth of Majory Stoneman Douglass

Maryland House Speaker Busch is focused on guns when he should be going after the people who use them to commit crimes.

President Trump shows who is boss - it's the National Rifle Association, of course.

Gun laws by state, and whether any action has been taken since Parkland shooting

Gun violence is too important a cause for Baltimore students to be excluded no matter the price.

Talk of arming teachers strikes me as cavalier leaping toward insane, an answer to mass shootings that expands, rather than diminishes, the presence of guns in American life, thereby increasing the risk of injury or death.

Spring is just around the corner with its violent weather swings. Last week’s bomb cyclone clobbered more than a quarter of the nation’s population with violent storms and unusually heavy winds. But that nor’easter could never match the turbulent tempests coming out of the White House.

With the recent mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas there seems to be a glimmer of hope that we as a society are finally willing to make changes that possibly will result in our schools becoming safe havens for learning. This hope has been instilled by the iGeneration and not by politicians.

Politics has become a lifestyle, part of the "Big Sort" driving so much in our culture. That's why the NRA's marketing these days has so little to do with gun policy and so much to do with smash-mouth cultural resentments.

Jules Witcover: We should oust incumbants who take NRA blood money and enable school shooters.

The National Rifle Association, long considered one of the most powerful and professional lobbying groups in the world, is losing a crucial  public relations battle to bunch of teenagers from Florida.

Students at Excel Academy in West Baltimore haven’t experienced a school shooting, but have lost seven schoolmates to street gun violence in the last year and a half, and can share stories going back decades about the outsize role guns have played in their lives and the impact it has had on them.

Gov. Larry Hogan is suddenly supporting NRA-opposed gun control measures. His political opponents smell an election year conversion. So what?

Based on a recent poll, Leonard Pitts Jr. says 42 percent of Republicans are "out of their damn minds" (17 percent of Democrats).

Maryland lawmakers in the Maryland General Assembly are seeking to ban bump stocks, take guns from domestic abusers and create a "red flag" system to intervene when a gun owner's behavior is threatening but not criminal.