Maryland
Andy Harris attacks transgender people during debate against Heather Mizeur
Republican congressman has represented Md. Eastern Shore since 2011
Republican Maryland Congressman Andy Harris on Wednesday attacked transgender people during a debate against Democratic challenger Heather Mizeur.
“This is not the Defense Department that I signed up for 1988,” said Harris, who is a U.S. Navy veteran. “It’s more interested in whether or not you fund transgender surgery than whether you fund a missile system to counter the Chinese hypersonic threat. There is more interest on the other side about whether we are going to use preferred pronouns in the Pentagon than whether or not our men and women in uniform have the backing of their higher ups and the investments in military weapon systems to protect their lives.”
Harris in his opening statement noted “the stripping of parental rights; whether that’s school curriculum, promote (a) transgender agenda in schools, keeping secrets from parents.”
“We’ve got to go down a different track,” he said.
Cecil Public Media hosted the debate that took place at the Milburn Stone Theater at Cecil College in North East.
Harris has represented Maryland’s 1st Congressional District — which currently encompasses the entire Eastern Shore and portions of Baltimore, Carroll and Harford Counties — since 2011.
Mizeur served on the Takoma Park City Council before she served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 2007-2015.
She ran for governor in 2014. Mizeur, who now lives on the Eastern Shore with her wife, announced her run against Harris less than a month after the Jan. 6 insurrection.
The district is Maryland’s only Republican-leaning congressional district.
Maryland
At transgender visibility celebration, Moore called out for lack of action
Trans Maryland Founding Executive Director Lee Blinder criticized governor at event
By PAMELA WOOD | In a ceremonial room at the historic State House on International Transgender Day of Visibility, Lee Blinder stepped to a lectern and did something rare: They called out Gov. Wes Moore for failing to back up his words with action.
Over the course of five minutes, Blinder laid out how the Democratic governor has let down transgender Marylanders by not putting money in the budget and not backing needed policy changes.
“We know who you, Gov. Moore, can be for us. And I am begging you to do it,” Blinder said.
The rest of this article can be found on the Baltimore Banner’s website.
Maryland
HHS cuts millions in grants to Hopkins and University of Maryland, Baltimore
Federal government cites diversity focus as reason
By MEREDITH COHN | At least two dozen research grants at the University of Maryland, Baltimore and Johns Hopkins University have been terminated by the federal government in recent weeks amid President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting diversity efforts.
Alex Likowski, a spokesman for the University of Maryland, Baltimore, said on Tuesday that the combined value of its 12 canceled contracts was $5.87 million this year, with an anticipated future funding loss of $11.6 million.
“In nearly every instance, the reason cited for cancellation is that the grant involves gender identity issues or promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion,” said Likowski.
The rest of this article can be found on the Baltimore Banner’s website.
Maryland
Former College Park Mayor Patrick Wojahn disbarred
One-time official serving 30-year prison sentence for child pornography possession, distribution
Patrick Wojahn, the former mayor of College Park who resigned after law enforcement executed a search and seizure warrant and discovered a “very large quantity” of child sexual abuse material on his cellphone, has agreed to be disbarred in Maryland.
Wojahn, 49, a Democrat who served as mayor from 2015 to 2023, later pleaded guilty in Prince George’s County Circuit Court to 140 counts of possession and distribution of child pornography and was sentenced to 30 years in prison — plus five years of probation.
In an order on Friday, Maryland Chief Justice Matthew J. Fader granted a joint petition for disbarment by consent and noted that Wojahn agreed that his actions constituted professional misconduct.
The rest of this article can be found on the Baltimore Banner’s website.
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