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April 29, 2021
The advocacy group Progressive Maryland has launched a new political action committee to elect progressive Democrats in races for the General Assembly and local offices.
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The New Era PAC is having an inaugural virtual fundraiser on Saturday. Benjamin T. Jealous, the 2018 Democratic nominee for governor and current president of the national civil rights group People For The American Way, will speak at the event. This is not a time for play-it-safe politics, Jealous wrote in an email invitation to the event. In Maryland, just like in our country as a whole, we are in a new age, filled with unprecedented challenges and unprecedented opportunities, ready to be met and seized with bold, progressive leadership.
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Norman Lear on Another Period of Joyful Stress, Working Through the Pandemic
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In his 2014 memoir “Even This I Get to Experience,” TV legend Norman Lear writes about the busiest period of his life as a time of “joyful stress.”
The 1970s were the pinnacle of Lear’s success as an uber producer, and at one point he simultaneously had eight shows on the air including such landmark sitcoms as “All in the Family,” “One Day at a Time,” “Sanford and Son,” “Good Times,” “Maude,” “The Jeffersons” and “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.”
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