Local As the country moves to reopen, Americans weigh necessity, fear and longing By The Georgetown professor was groggy, still tucked under her comforter when her research began. Robin Dillon-Merrill reached for her phone at 7 a.m., thumbed the screen and refreshed the death toll once again. She checked the Monday morning news, where government officials were debating and protesters were demanding the “reopening” of the country. Her job is to study the choices people make during times of uncertainty, and here was another week in the most uncertain time of all, when everyone, every day, is...…Local As the country moves to reopen, Americans weigh necessity, fear and longing By The Georgetown professor was groggy, still tucked under her comforter when her research began. Robin Dillon-Merrill reached for her phone at 7 a.m., thumbed the screen and refreshed the death toll once again. She checked the Monday morning news, where government officials were debating and protesters were demanding the “reopening” of the country. Her job is to study the choices people make during times of uncertainty, and here was another week in the most uncertain time of all, when everyone, every day, is...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoGift ShareFor decades, he was the man to see in Maryland’s state capital, a country-boy Democrat who rose to the heights of power in the General Assembly and used his commanding influence to direct politics and policy across the state.Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr., the nation’s longest-serving president of a state Senate and a pillar of Maryland government for nearly a half-century, died Jan. 15 at his home in Chesapeake Beach, Md. He was 78. The cause was complications from prostate cancer, said family spokesman Jake Weissmann.A...…This article was published more than 2 years agoGift ShareFor decades, he was the man to see in Maryland’s state capital, a country-boy Democrat who rose to the heights of power in the General Assembly and used his commanding influence to direct politics and policy across the state.Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr., the nation’s longest-serving president of a state Senate and a pillar of Maryland government for nearly a half-century, died Jan. 15 at his home in Chesapeake Beach, Md. He was 78. The cause was complications from prostate cancer, said family spokesman Jake Weissmann.A...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoGift ShareMany U.S. Secret Service agents have stood guard in Washington’s elite Kalorama neighborhood, home over the years to Cabinet secretaries and former presidents. Those agents have had to worry about death threats, secure perimeters and suspicious strangers. But with the arrival of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, they had a new worry: finding a toilet.Instructed not to use any of the half-dozen bathrooms inside the couple’s house, the Secret Service detail assigned to President Trump’s daughter and son-in-law spent months searching...…This article was published more than 2 years agoGift ShareMany U.S. Secret Service agents have stood guard in Washington’s elite Kalorama neighborhood, home over the years to Cabinet secretaries and former presidents. Those agents have had to worry about death threats, secure perimeters and suspicious strangers. But with the arrival of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, they had a new worry: finding a toilet.Instructed not to use any of the half-dozen bathrooms inside the couple’s house, the Secret Service detail assigned to President Trump’s daughter and son-in-law spent months searching...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThomas V. Mike Miller Jr., a towering political force in Maryland for five decades, resigned from the state Senate on Wednesday, saying his health was failing and he no longer had the strength to serve.Miller (D-Calvert), 78, was elected to the Senate in 1974 and served as the chamber’s president for 33 years, longer than any state Senate leader in the country.He in 2019 after being diagnosed with Stage 4 prostate cancer and was replaced as chamber leader by Sen. Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City). But Miller kept his seat...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThomas V. Mike Miller Jr., a towering political force in Maryland for five decades, resigned from the state Senate on Wednesday, saying his health was failing and he no longer had the strength to serve.Miller (D-Calvert), 78, was elected to the Senate in 1974 and served as the chamber’s president for 33 years, longer than any state Senate leader in the country.He in 2019 after being diagnosed with Stage 4 prostate cancer and was replaced as chamber leader by Sen. Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City). But Miller kept his seat...WW…