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An important date is coming up on Monday in Maryland’s legislative session: crossover! At crossover, bills have to pass through one of the chambers and make it over to the other chamber. Bills that have not made it through one chamber by Monday will be effectively done for this year (of course, there are always exceptions to the rule).

Here is the status of our priority bills:

Forest Conservation Act: Maryland is losing forest, and HB766/SB610 are trying to stem this tide. Last night, the Senate Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs voted a compromise bill out, and that will be hitting

(Photo Credit: Resonant Energy)

Clean energy belongs to us all.

We’re talking about the wind and the sun, sources of power that have graced us since the dawn of time.

We’re talking about power that cleans our air, improves our health, builds our local economy and makes our world safer.

And let’s not forget that, in states like Massachusetts, we’re talking about energy that we all pay for, through an allotment on our monthly energy bills. What we invest in efficiency and clean energy is money well spent, reducing healthcare costs and “shaving the peak” of high-demand strains on our power grid

Worcester, MA is a gritty little outpost in Central Massachusetts, with the quaint feel of bygone glory days.

In cosmopolitan Boston, with its internationally renowned academic, financial and healthcare institutions, this caricature of our neighbor only an hour away- the second largest city in New England- is a common perception. So ingrained is this idea in fact, that it translates into monumental material impacts like infrequent transit connections, meager media attention to issues of significance in Worcester and a paucity of economic development initiatives by the Boston-oriented