In miniature, November 28

• Strong Capital Gazette editorial backs recommendations of Gov. Hogan’s Maryland Redistricting Reform Commission. More: Fraser Smith and Karen Hosler, WYPR, earlier here, etc.
• 250 years ago on Repudiation Day Frederick County magistrate judges defied British crown [Danielle Gaines, Frederick News-Post] As I wrote two years ago, it’s the only American public holiday I know of celebrating judicial resistance to onerous government and taxation;
• Occupational licensure, land use regulation and housing subsidy programs make inviting targets for regulatory reform to lower compliance burdens [public comment submitted to the Maryland Regulatory Reform Commission by Nick Zaiac for Maryland Public Policy Institute]
• Oyster visas: when even Sen. Barbara Mikulski says Obama labor regulations go too far, maybe they really do go too far [Washington Post]
• “Vacate the streets and see how the community likes it” — a prescient June Washington Post editorial on Baltimore policing? What I wrote re: NYPD’s ticket-writing strike last December;
• A city heedless of its literary heritage: Mencken house at 1524 Hollins St. continues to deteriorate despite $3 million bequest under city of Baltimore control and unused after nine years [Daily Record via Maryland Reporter]

In miniature, April 29

• “There was no repeat of Monday’s violence.” There’s your story. [Washington Post, on Baltimore picking itself up after the riot] “I wish humanity didn’t have to resort to violence to get its point across. However….” Really, Del. Morales? [Del. Maricé Morales (D-Montgomery County) on Facebook, quoted at Seventh State]
• Police van “rough rides,” meant to injure arrestees, led to Philadelphia, Chicago scandals. And Baltimore? [BuzzFeed, Baltimore Sun]
• Duly noted: 15 Democratic members of state senate would like to gut the First Amendment on campaign speech [Rebecca Lessner, Maryland Reporter]
• H.L. Mencken spins in grave as Baltimore Sun adopts tut-tutting editorial view of alcohol;
• Maryland GOP coming along only slowly on marijuana law reform; at least eight Republican lawmakers voted for this term’s very modest paraphernalia bill, so +1 for Sen. Justin Ready and Dels. Carl Anderton, Mary Beth Carozza, Robert Flanagan, Robin Grammer, Herb McMillan, Christian Miele, and Chris West [Van Smith, City Paper, interviewing former Del. Don Murphy]
• “Martin O’Malley’s Terrible Fiscal Record” [Chris Edwards, Cato]