Chicken Scratch: What Do We Do Now? The first day is hard, the second, unexpectedly, harder. It’s the coming to terms when you’ve lost something dear, when reality seeps in, and down, and the dark stain finds its way even onto the secret slivers of light you’ve sequestered somewhere.I stare at a blank page, hoping something sensible will find its way into […]

Jan 9, 2025 · January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month. As the Mid-Shore region’s state-designated Regional Navigator, For All Seasons continues to partner with a network of agencies working to respond to and prevent human trafficking. The agency’s Anti-Human Trafficking Regional Navigator program helps identify human trafficking situations, offers support to survivors and their families, and ...

Jan 12, 2025 · The Senate Armed Services Committee has scheduled a hearing for January 14th on the nomination of Pete Hegseth to be the next Secretary of Defense, notwithstanding that most committee senators have not been afforded an opportunity to see Mr. Hegseth’s F.B.I. background check or discuss with the nominee their concerns about reports involving sexual assault and harassment, a drinking problem ...

Jan 2, 2025 · Every Thursday, the Spy hosts a conversation with Al From and Craig Fuller on the most topical political news of the moment.

Jan 28, 2025 · The Talbot County Council held their regular meeting on January 28, 2025 at 5 p.m.; all Council members were present.

Jan 7, 2025 · Biden will sign two memoranda Monday to permanently ban offshore drilling over more than 625 million acres of ocean to advance his commitment to conserve 30% of U.S. lands and waters by 2030, a White House statement said.

Jan 17, 2025 · Governor Wes Moore’s declaration that raising taxes would require a “high bar” seems to have been more rhetoric than reality. For many Maryland taxpayers, this supposed bar appears distressingly low. The governor’s plan to impose higher taxes on households earning over $1 million and ...

Dec 16, 2024 · The swanfall of 1997 employed a gossamer-winged ultralight, a flying device resembling drawings by Leonardo da Vinci in the 1400s, weighing less than a dozen swans and designed to fly low and slow. But the event probed a frontier at least as important as outer space: one of recovery and restoration, reconnecting the planet’s old natural circuits that earlier generations had ripped asunder.

Jan 13, 2025 · Now that the reality of a second Trump term is sinking in, some Democratic members of Congress, Democratic governors, Democratic state attorney generals, and a large group of issue advocacy groups are working diligently to put up a new “blue wall” in Congress to delay or derail President-elect Trump’s congressional agenda.

Nov 7, 2024 · This week, From and Fuller discuss their failure to accurately predict the 2024 election outcome and Donald Trump’s remarkable campaign performance last Tuesday. Al and Craig also trade thoughts on the impact, or lack thereof, of both gender and race as factors that led to defeat for the Harris-Walz Democratic ticket.