As the Anne Arundel County Board of Elections reconfigures local races to match the boundaries of newly drawn legislative maps, Republican District 31 Sen. Bryan Simonaire is running for reelection. The Pasadena resident will be campaigning in a far different district than the one he has come to know as senator for the past 16 years.
Droves of activists clad in purple descended on Lawyers Mall outside the Maryland State House on Thursday afternoon to protest abortion and advocate for access to care from conception until natural death as lawmakers milled from offices to the chamber to drop last-minute bills before the deadline.